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[lobelia321]

I have just discovered that John Noble is currently starring in a play at the Darlinghurst Theatre in Sydney! Not only that, but it's a play called "The Arab's Mouth" by Anne Marie McDonald whose book "Fall to your Knees" I love and adore.

Oh, to be thejennabides and flit across oceans to drool over actors on the stage!

Will anyone see this for me? And report and get pics? And force the man to sign something (napkin? condom? back of hand whose skin is to be peeled off and posted to me?)

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[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, how wonderful, a fellow traveller!

I, too, was rivetted by that book, from the opening to the very end. I've talked to some people who didn't like or were puzzled by the opening but I loved that especially: I loved the idea of using still photos to foreshadow some of the later events. In fact, I loved the whole foreshadowing: the constant foreboding and the continuing twists and surprises. The whole novel read like an intricately built piece of architecture -- I loved that architectural feeling. The sense of place, too -- I still retain a very strong sense of that. Plus the way that the pov weaves in and out of people -- not the strict one-person pov that we sometimes cleave to excessively in slash; I found it really liberating. I remember that at one point we veer into the *cat's* pov. I don't want to give any spoilers away in this public forum but the pages with the graphic border around them, and the change of tone: just stunning.

Yes, I'm drooling. I discovered this book through a book published in Australia called "Writers on Writing", and one chapter was based on an interview with Anne-marie McDonald and had excerpt. I was very impressed with her humble attitude to writing, she wants to remove herself totally from the prose, and she is also very striking-looking in an unusual way.

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[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh, it's been over a year since i read this book and all these things you're reminding me of make me want to go read it again straight away.

i read it because at the time i was going through a phase in which i didn't want to read or see anything that wasn't about lesbians in some way (and this was pre-slash for me). i had just finished reading and raving about tipping the velvet when a friend pulled this off her sheld and told me to give it a go. and it was so captivating, i didn't think about the woman-love til it happened - and so beautifully and tragically. ::sigh:: this book is like an opera in its epis scale. but much more finely detailed. ok, maybe i do have to go read it again. *g*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I, otoh, was completely overbowled by the woman thing. But, I think I had an inkling before it happened - she is *so* clever at dropping just enough clues to keep you on your toes. In a way, I think, subliminally I sussed it when the word 'he' never appeared: it was just 'an American' and so forth.

So for me it was the sudden slashy moment sprung to life! And so wonderfully, wonderfully done.

And you're right, it is operatic. But a dark, dark opera.