Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

The Sytem is Down


That is Squeee in a hat because it makes me happy.
My lap top has bitten the dust.
I am very upset.
Anywhoo.
I'm currently reading American Psycho. My friend at work recommended it to me because of my love for anything disturbing. I've been reading it for two weeks, a book that size doesn't take me more than a few days! I demolish books, my mother likes to tell people I don't read them, I eat them. Not this one, not this piece of crap slow going senseless, stupid book. It's full of gory, violent, weird murders and strange habits of this serial killer and that makes it a book I am enjoying immensely, but it's poorly written. I know it's meant to be from his POV in a first person narrative and he's a lunatic so it's a little disjointed and hazy on details but I am really having a hard time with it. It's like when I read Requiem For A Dream, good story, hard to read since it's written in Jive talk with no real punctuation or transitioning.
This year seems to be my year to challenge myself with my reading and writing. I'm forcing myself to read books that I have a hard time concentrating on and I'm forcing myself to take a pile of short stories and combine them into a novel.
I think this is a good thing.
?Right?

2 comments:

MedSchoolWife said...

Yes!!!!!!!!!! A very good thing! But make sure you keep reading the books you do like.

And send me your short stories!!!! Or post them or something. I'm dying to read them.

Elizabeth said...

Oh Connie, Once I stop hating them I will I promise. They just, aren't working right now? They don't make the sense or convey the message I want them to.