8 Reasons Why I Am In Love Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak is best known for writing Where The Wild Things Are? and now he's best known to me for making me say "Andy Rooney, who?!" out loud. 83-year-old Maurice made my soul coo out 8 crusty and chapped hearts during his interview with The Guardian about writing children books, hating bitches and hating bitches some more. Here are just 8 things that Maurice is growling at (alternate title: 8 reasons why I want to make children with an 83-year-old grand cunt):
E-books: "I hate them. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book."NYC: "You get pushed and harassed and people grope you. It's too tumultuous, it's too crazy!"
Rupert Murdoch: "His name should be what everything is called now. (Reporter: But doesn't he publish your books?) Yes! Harpers. He owns Harpers and I guess the rest of the world, too. He represents how bad things have become. But I don't know a better house. They're all in trouble. They're all terrible."
American politics: "These Republican schnooks would be comical if they weren't not funny."
Salman Rushdie: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that."
Roald Dahl: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he's very popular but what's nice about this guy? He's dead, that's what's nice about him."
Stephen King: "Bullshit."
Gwyneth Paltrow: "I can't stand her."
These quotes should be published into a hardcover book with illustrations and read to every single child before bedtime. This is mandatory.
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@ Literary Lioness~
There was a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" about this topic.
I didn't see the whole episode, but I think Larry (a Jewish man) was being ostracized b/c he was "caught" listening to Schubert in his car (a noted Anti-Semite).
Larry's Jewish neighbors were aghast that he could listen to someone who was "evil" in their opinion.
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I'm on the fence. It's nice not to "live in the dark" about people, but ever since I found out Degas was an anti-semite, I can never look at those beautiful ballerinas in the same way. :(
Submitted by Dr. Cornelia J.... on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 7:35pm.
Good for him. When I'm 83, I'll be telling you bitches what I really think about you. As if I'm gonna wait that long, assholes....
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Let's start now!! I turn 50 this year and I don't give a FUCK anymore what people think!
That being said, I love all you bitches and whorz. You make me laugh every fucking day. And Michael K-- will you be our Queen? You DO rock.
Boston Bruins-- Stanley Cup Champs 2011
Talk about taking the piss!!
Gotta love the old codge-- he's sits on his porch and talks shit about all the neighbors. blahahahaha!!!
My fave book of his is "A Hole is to Dig." And he's right about Roald Dahl-- if you read all the creepy shit in his books, he was just one step short of being a sadist, taking joy in the mmistreatment of children. Plus, he treated his ex wife, Patricia Neal, like shit when they were married. An evil, evil man.
Boston Bruins-- Stanley Cup Champs 2011
Agree with everything he said, including Roald Dahl but his delightful malice was what made him great. Kids love that stuff. Also, Sendaks best children's book, Outside Over There, isn't exactly sweetness and light, in fact it's borderline disturbing
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"It's always funny until somebody gets hurt-then it's fucking hilarious": The late great Bill Hicks
Roald Dahl is a dark genius whose books for children and short stories for grownups are classic. I never liked Where the Wild Things are, anyway. Stephen King has also been quite prolific, if not always substantive, and some of his short stories were epic goodness ("Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" comes to mind.)
Of course he's right about Fishstix. But we all know that.
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You must forgive my curiosity, madam, and open your knees.
oops. double post.
Why isn't there a "like" button on here?
Hm. Roald Dahl and Stephen King are brilliant short story writers, though both are more famous for their other works. Sendak's grouchiness is amusing up to a point, but I wonder why he chose that pair of writers to slam. The full interview on The Guardian website does not provide further context for his dislike of them.
The culture section of the Guardian is awesome. "My Favourite Album" is a must-read.
I agree with him to an extent on the e-books, but only because I think people spend too much time in front of screens all day and night (TV and computer). People need to unplug.
Stephen King has written some amazing stories like The Stand and the Dark Tower series, but I still like this cantankerous old coot for his dislike of Goopy.
...My darling can't you see
My heart sounds just for you my dear...
Stephen King: "Bullshit."
Quite rich of him to say, Stephen King is a good novelist, has released lots of great novels and is more successful than he will ever be.
Kudos for what he said about Gwyneth though.
actually i like some of stephen king's work..there are some of books i can't get through and one book i had to put down and i didn't even want it in my bedroom (rose madder)...i did eventually finish it...and i got rid of it immediately...
otherwise, this old coot is a riot...
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"The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it." --
Roseanne Barr
This very recent interview on Fresh Air is so moving...a fuller picture than these amazing comments: http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140435330/this-pig-wants-to-party-maurice-...
*adds "flaccid fuckhead" to insult vocabulary*
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Her:"I bought sparkling wine. Let's have girls night!" Me:"I would rather put a cigarette out on my clit." - Slashleen on Twitter
Be still my heart!
I never read Where the Wild Things Are but I might pick up a copy today.
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What kind of fuckery is this?
He melted my cold hard heart when he said those magical words about Goopy. .
蜘龍====================龍蜘
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Wow, what a crochety old bitch (yeah I know he's a male). Although I agree about the E-books, Goopy and the Republicans. But I disagree 100% on Roald Dahl, the man was a genius, I loved his books when I was a kid. And,I do like Stephen King too.
Personally, I have enjoyed being jostled and pushed while in NYC but on the other stuff I agree. I want to be a tough old bird who tells it like it is.
Aw, you bitches are awesome. The man's a writer and studying people is his job. He sees through it all and has an opinion. Don't agree with everything, but applaud the balls in saying it. I think Stephen King is fine- he knows how to tell a story, and he's miles above some of the other popular writers. There are "literary" writers who win awards I find worse than King. Regardless, Team cranky old bastard.
I agree with pretty much everything except with the Roald Dahl comment. And ive never read a Stephen King novel so I can't say anything about his writing. And OMG I LOVE that he mentioned his hate for Gwyneth! I wish he had elaborated, but I can't wait 'til Gwyneth is confronted by it in some interview!
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Submitted by Bjork You on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 5:24pm.
Submitted by IrishFury on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 5:17pm.
I had a prof. in college who despised Dahl, saying he was a total Jew hater, black hater, etc.
Anyone know anything about that?
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If I stopped reading a book or watching a film or doing anything with the arts because the creator was an anti-Semite, racist, sexist, homophobe, etc., I'd be left reading what Jesus scrolled on some two-ply, brown sheeted, organic toilet paper. Patricia Highsmith was a notorious anti-Semite and all out bitch, but I still love those Ripley novels. Willem de Kooning was kind of a shitty dad. And Edith Wharton had some snotty ass things to say, too. Oh, and...
I think we should make up rumours. I heard that Joyce Carol Oates wears a strap on in bed.
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What writer doesn't have some sort of bias? Shakespeare was anti-Semite. Merchant of Venice anyone see or read that? Rumors of C.S.Lewis being gay abound as Lewis Carrol being a pedophile.
I can't stand professors who bring this stuff up because it just doesn't really matter. We are still reading Shakespeare and everyone else.
Agree until Roald Dahl, and I think Stephen King's Salem's Lot is underrated.
Well put, love him!
This guy is awesome
Is he still available? I think I'm in love.
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Rusty, tu nous manque! Sois gentil et donne-nous de tes nouvelles!
HAAAAAA...Gwyneth Paltrow: hate her.....
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I'm countin' on Jesus at this point.
i love this guy. i wish he was my pepaw! he and bubbe would be a perfect match.
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A baby's first words should not be: "DEATH DON'T TAKE ME NOW!!!" - MK
Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 6:40pm.
I like Stephen King, but agree on all the other points. Can`t get myself to get a kindle. There is just something about the smell and feel of books I love too much.
OMG, yes UBF> Im an unashamed bibliophile. I love touching, feeling, and smelling books. It can never be replaced.
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"I'm so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name! Fuck Sookie!" - Vampire Badass Pamela Swynford De Beaufort.
I think I just came.
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"I'm so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name! Fuck Sookie!" - Vampire Badass Pamela Swynford De Beaufort.
I so very love you madame s!! For so many reasons, and this is just one. xoxoxoxo
TEAM MAURICE!
What a fucking hoot. I'd ride his 83 year old hog any day. Pepaws that talk shit like that are spry as hell.
Roald was no slouch in the man whore biz. Maybe Maurice knows some good shit on Dahl. SPILL!
Roald Dahl broke Patricia Neal's heart | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1301717/Roald-Dahl-broke-Patri...
~*Lets go to my room pig!*~
Hekki and Sweetas,
Some of those old fairy tales are the best! I still collect them, especially the beautifully illustrated. I just love them, and did when I was a kid too. Also... two of my favorite books when I was little were "The Giving Tree" and "The Velveteen Rabbit". They break your heart every. single. time. but you always go back because they're so beautiful. I still bawl when I read them.
There are SO MANY amazing kids' books with incredible artwork and great writing. I love them. One new one I have is a vintage book of Chinese Folk Tales with beautiful block prints inside. SO GOOD.
King's quotable "mentor", Edgar Allan Poe:
"By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmanent by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct." -The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror." -The Fall of the House of Usher
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;" -The Raven
"Down-certainly, relentlessly down! It vibrated within three inches...! I struggled violently - furiously - to free my left arm..." - The Pit and the Pendulum
"I knew what he wished to make me understand. With the wind that now drove us on, we were bound for the whirl of the Strom, and nothing could save us!" -A Decent into the Maelstrom.
"Yet the sound increased - and what could I do? It was a low, dull, quick sound - much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. ....I paced the floor... oh God, what could I do? I foamed, I raved, I swore....I could bear the hypocritical smiles no longer! Louder! Louder!..."Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks - here, here!! it is the besting of the hideous heart!" -The Tell-Tale Heart
"...and yet all this might have been endured, if not approved, by the mad revellers around. But the mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death, His vesture was dabble in blood -and his brow broad - with all the features of the face besprinkled with the Scarlet Horror." - The Masque of the Red Death
If these short stories didn't get you side-eying something, then you're dead to the world. That is all.
((hugs, and extra batteries for lights-on night sleep; gnite))
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Bugs Bunny 'What's Opera, Doc?"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VMqQ6XnmI (Beginning portion)
Dre,Eminem, Skylar- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA770wpLX-Q&ob=av3e
@ caprica
Shape-shifter lore did you say? I think I'm really going to enjoy this book!
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I like this guy's attitude
I like this guy's attitude
Submitted by Lucifer_Sam on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 7:29pm.
Haha, you see, I might love it for that very reason. I'm an aspiring writer myself and I once wrote close to four pages about a landscape. It was vital to the plot, but in the end I said "No one's going to read this shit!" and decided to start all over.
I just Wiki'd Black House and it says it's a sequel? Do I have to read the Talisman to follow it?
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*damn them damn phone calls!!* LS, the interesting thing, to me, is that Talisman is a follow up to BH, but it isn't necessary to see BH to get the final concept of Talisman. Talisman moves forward w/ the generic premises of mysticism, shape-shifter lore and ownership/territory.
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Bugs Bunny 'What's Opera, Doc?"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2VMqQ6XnmI (Beginning portion)
Dre,Eminem, Skylar- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA770wpLX-Q&ob=av3e
Submitted by Hekki on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 7:35pm.
Everyone is so polite and there's a PC message in everything.
A lot of modern literature is watered down nonsense which I don't read on principle; but I wouldn't say that it's a bad thing that a lot of it is "padded" and PC. For instance, just as racial views of the time were mirrored in Stoker and Lovecraft's writing, I think it should be so that modern attitudes to tolerance should also be reflected in what's written today.
My only concern these days is whether a book is well-written, and for the most part the answer to that is no.
Let me show you the shit I grew up with...
My Grandma used to read this book to me. Kids get killed doing dumb shit. Talk about life lessons..lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter
ne of the stories that scared me the most was this one, being a thumbsucker myself...:
In "Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher" (The Story of the Thumb-Sucker), a mother warns her son not to suck his thumbs. However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.
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Well, aren't you just the cosmopolitan Queen Bee of Cuntsville? No, I'm sorry, of "Cuntropolis". Please excuse us in all of our inbred grandpa fucking glory. Karen Flatts, 09/21/11
and here, from memory:
on the night max wore his wolf suit
and made mischief of one kind
and another
his mother called him wild thing
and max said, "i'll eat you up!"
so he was sent to bed
without eating anything
that night in max's room a forest grew
and grew and grew
until the floor disappeared and the walls became the world all around
and an ocean tumbled by
or something like that. i could keep on going, but i didnt realize it was so long.
there is no better kids book, tho in my opinion several william steigs match it for content and for drawings - but not for brevity.
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Submitted by Uncle Brain-fart on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 7:35pm.
Ok cool, and thanks for the recommendation.
I just read a quick synopsis and I think I'll like BH very much. I'm really interested in serial killers, and Albert Fish is the one that scares me the most.
And this is why I love Maurice Sendak and give his books to my friends as shower & birthday presents.
I also loved that he wrote his latest book while his partner was dying, because he said he didn't want to die with him. TRUTH. I know exactly how he feels and got up to applaud in the privacy of my home office (back bedroom) when I read that.
And yeah, Roald Dahl was a creepy motherfucker. He also cheated on Patricia Neal.
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"Bitch, stop. We're not a family of Martha Fucking Stewarts."
omg i love old men.
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The McCanns Did It
He should be tweeting to Cher.
Lol, I love the filthy literary turn this thread has taken.
Hekki remember the original Grimm Fairy Tales??? Nothing like the fluff you see today. Too much, I think, but it is definitely reflective of the time in which they were written.
I try to protect my kids but yeah, they need to know life is not all rainbows and butterflies.
I really like Stephen King too, and he wrote some great stuff as Richard Bachman. Like Cappy said, the first 1/3 of some of his stories seems ridiculously dry until BAM! shit happens and you KNOW the characters because he developed them so well, and then it's ON. I didn't know he slept with the lights on but since that's what I do when I'm reading his stuff I'm not surprised.
Good for him. When I'm 83, I'll be telling you bitches what I really think about you. As if I'm gonna wait that long, assholes....
@ Lucifer Sam, no, i read Black House years after Talisman, and you would be fine reading Black House by itself.
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Well, aren't you just the cosmopolitan Queen Bee of Cuntsville? No, I'm sorry, of "Cuntropolis". Please excuse us in all of our inbred grandpa fucking glory. Karen Flatts, 09/21/11
Re: Raold Dahl. Authors (and people in general) treat children as if they are incapable of handling any sort of unpleasantness. Children are human and therefore a little bloodthirsty. They LIKE being scared -- within the limits of fiction.
They are also capable of appreciating sarcasm and hyperbole and general outlandishness. Yes, I understand that they enjoy comforting soft things and happy endings, but I also think that storybooks are safe places where they can explore FICTIONAL unpleasant things and let their imaginations stretch.
I absolutely cannot STAND so much of the treacly pablum that's out there for kids now. Bleccch. Everyone is so polite and there's a PC message in everything.