Camassia Meme
Camassia mentions popular things she just doesn't get.
Pulp Fiction was completely unremarkable to me too. The lone Sopranos episode I watched left me cold.
I recall having liked Unforgiven when it first came out, presumably due to Eastwood and the excellent cinematography, but now find it unwatchable - just violence to core, which means it has no core.
Fantasy and science fiction are something I've never been able to relate to. I've tried to read some of Tolkien's LOTR but never got anywhere. Probably because I am too much a creature of this age and want more "non-fiction-y" fiction?
I've read Updike, a close literary relative of Roth as far as prominently featuring "perpetually horny men" but I'm not sure I learned anything other than Updike can write things sexual in an incredibly colorful and descriptive way. But then, being a guy, by definition I wouldn't have need to learn anything on that score. (No pun intended.) I suppose it would be helpful for women to realize the extent to which men are perpetually horny although if they don't know that by now I'm not sure a book would help. In fairness to Roth and Updike, some of their books have almost no sex in them. I don't recall much of it in The Human Stain or Gertrude and Claudius and I woulda recalled it.
I've never been able to appreciate "Suthern" novelists, with Walker Percy being the great exception. I'm not a fan of Faulkner or anyone else where the language is hard to decipher because it's written in the Southern idiom ala "I bin there...". I liked Tom Sawyer as a kid. As an adult I wanted to re-read Huck Finn but found it sluggish going and didn't finish it.
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