Comments on: Roundup http://www.edrants.com/roundup-236/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:18:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeffrey S. Correa http://www.edrants.com/roundup-236/comment-page-1/#comment-245887 Jeffrey S. Correa Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:12:59 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=7740#comment-245887 "I’ve never understood the appeal of Lahiri’s work. Her ideas, right down to the very structure of her sentences, are extremely pedestrian. I tend to fall asleep after a page or two." Too true “I’ve never understood the appeal of Lahiri’s work. Her ideas, right down to the very structure of her sentences, are extremely pedestrian. I tend to fall asleep after a page or two.”

Too true

]]> By: jh http://www.edrants.com/roundup-236/comment-page-1/#comment-245844 jh Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:40:50 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=7740#comment-245844 I've never understood the appeal of Lahiri's work. Her ideas, right down to the very structure of her sentences, are extremely pedestrian. I tend to fall asleep after a page or two. I’ve never understood the appeal of Lahiri’s work. Her ideas, right down to the very structure of her sentences, are extremely pedestrian. I tend to fall asleep after a page or two.

]]> By: Patrick Stephenson http://www.edrants.com/roundup-236/comment-page-1/#comment-245841 Patrick Stephenson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:37:11 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=7740#comment-245841 You're being a bit hard on the ole Sedaris with that "unfunny" description. Definitely, the book's a mixed bag, but lots of it—the quitting-smoking story, I'm talking about here—made me laugh pretty loudly and un-self-consciously. You’re being a bit hard on the ole Sedaris with that “unfunny” description. Definitely, the book’s a mixed bag, but lots of it—the quitting-smoking story, I’m talking about here—made me laugh pretty loudly and un-self-consciously.

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