Tom--
That's fascinating.
There's nothing new under the sun.
Though, the Haight-Ashbury project did center on hard copy, while the cell phone novel is entirely and intentionally evanescent....That seems, somehow, important--like a pop culture version of the sand paintings that are made in order to blow away.
MaryR--
I decoupaged a set of bookshelves with the horrible Norton Shakespeare when the publisher sent me 2 free copies. Kept one, used the other to paper the shelves. Heretical, I'm sure, but somehow cathartic.
Avram
Actually, someone's written a novel that is only available as cell phone text messages.
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/004878.htm
The problem with modernity is that it parodies itself so much faster than I can parody it.
I find myself pleasantly distracted from the idea of gun porn (a phrase I think I might actually be afraid to google) by thinking of all the different synonyms for "boink" that also start with B.
Like bonk. Bang. Bag. Bone. Ball.
Fascinating.
Or perhaps not, since I'm guessing there are more synonyms for boinking than for any other human action....
Larry--
Point happily taken. Palahniuk is, at minimum, much-better-than-average ladlit...and probably enough better than average to be considered as beyond the genre.
Maybe it would have been better to suggest that his imitators are the best examples of ladlit?
I don't think that standard adventure stuff (Tom Clancy, Ludlum, etc.) with large explosions, guns, hostile enemy agents, really fit into the ladlit category---for two reasons. First, they appeal to an older audience than the late teens to early 30s group that ladlit aims at and second, they've got too much politics, not enough drugs, cheap beer, and whining.
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