Been checking psychicpants' current entry. Lille's slew of entries and comments on this issue is a good read:
And why can't these books can't be considered literature? Is it because they're not about incest in barrios? Because they don't reprazent? Because their covers are pink? Because they're about middle class girls who went to exclusive Catholic schools? Is it because they're sold in newsstands as opposed to bookstores where salesladies who don't know the difference between a hairnet and a haiku are manning the shelves?
These novels are laugh-out-loud funny, cleverly punny, sometimes cheesily emotional and given to inducing PMS tears. These books are definitely literature that I'd keep on my shelf, right beside my beloved Paul Auster, Lorrie Moore, Stephen Dobyns and Jessica Hagedorn books. The best thing about these books? They are alive. They're discussed in offices, passed around by friends, reprinted by the thousands. Their writers are being paid very good money from royalties. THEY'RE BEING READ BY A LOT OF FILIPINOS.
I have to say, reading about these "chick lits" makes me wanna go out and buy some (yup, controversy CAN do some selling).
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Checked out limpbwizit's recent entry:
in case they're merely trying to make an impression that they're highly intellectual, sorry, intelligence doesn't really stamp anything on my perception of a person. i may judge you as dumb or stupid or intellectually masturbating but i don't really give a shit if you read leo tolstoy or if you're an existentialist or if you don't have any opinion on the fiscal crisis issue. but i do give a shit if you pretend to know a lot or to have a lot to say about something coz it's so sick and you're just reducing yourself to merely just a vagina and a pair of mammary glands trying not to sound like a sex object but unconsciously wanting to be a sex object.
hmmm.. perhaps he hasn't found the right gurl yet. :-S
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green jell-o's blog has me rethinking some past memories. Hmmm.
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Must buy something for tonight's dinner... but what? Can't decide if i wanna skip it and watch the Cine Europa films, or just go and try to have a good time. Do i really want to go?? *sigh*
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TRESE Book 7 launch at MIBF 2019
5 years ago
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the critics and the academe are a bunch of snotty people. i may bcome like one of them someday. hahahaha! but seriously, their business is to decide which is lit, which is art, and which are not. *sigh*
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