13.7.07

What you Tolkien 'bout, willis?

J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis had a literary group together, called "The Inklings". I'm going to re-instate it. Who wants to be down with "Tha Inklingz"?

Required summer reading for "Tha Inklingz":

The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
Mythologies (Barthes)
Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper)
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
The White Album (Joan Didion)

and the "firestorm" of modern religious critiques, The Satanic Verses (Rushdie). Congrats to Sir Rushdie on his once-again Bachelorhood. In his honor we revisit this 600-page banger.

I been gone. I been chastized. Many things happened. I'm officially back from the dead. With a new album. PS, it's evolution summer. Mutate!

Jams F. Kennedey.

3 comments:

michael said...

never read a better first chapter than satanic verses.
killed it.r

charlottestjulien said...

not that i'm trying to be in the club but since i had read a few on the list already, i decided to read The remains of the day...and while emersed in the book at work, i was interupted by a customer she said "i hear you are wonderful with gentelmens clothing" and i said "One would hope so wouldn't one"...and realized i had to put the book down before i spoke anymore jibberish

ellsworthless said...

"A firestorm to purify the bane that society drowns in."

It has been a really long time.