Quote from: Blue Cactus on Today at 09:56:12 AMYour thoughts reminded me of some literary theory - I think Mikhail Bakhtin's but building on Roland Barthes' Death of the Author stuff. Basically the idea that the text is created by the reader in the act of reading.
I've not read Bakhtin's work but have read a lot around work influenced by him, but more focused on the 'value' of imaginative literature of all forms in supporting the needs of the reader. I mean this was back in the day and its al funnelled down to a few headlines. Basically a less fully expressed version of what you said.
Writers PAH - they got nothin' without us. Basically.
Quote from: Vector14 on Today at 10:25:40 AMWhile it's true that whatever a person takes from a work of art is valid, its still hard not to feel annoyed when people misinterpret the intention of the authors in some cases.
The obvious one is how some people interpret Dredd as a template for how policing should be done rather than a satire.
Yeah I get annoyed with this type of things too. The thing is though my annoyance doesn't diminish their reading and in some ways that reading (of Dredd) provides a value insight that they are folks I should probably avoid!
I recently beening thinking about Life of Pi a lot (which means its time for a re-read). Which I always read as an atheist text, as that's what I come with. Others see it as a 'Proof of God' (I think it was Obama who said that I'm too lazy to check), as that's what they bring. The author seems to stay quite enigmatic about it and talks about story, so we all get the story we need. Wonderful book.
Quote from: Blue Cactus on Today at 09:56:12 AMI hadn't really thought about Spider-Man while reading KOBK but now you point it out it's definitely apparent! This was probably my favourite Brubaker-Phillips series, this or The Fade Out I think. Recommended!
That Fade Out didn't make the list is almost certainly just down to the fact I've not got to a re-read yet!
Quote from: IndigoPrime on Today at 11:14:39 AMKill Or Be Killed: I thought that was great and it was the series that really got be into the whole Brubaker/Phillips thing. I'm now... probably a bit obsessive. Note quite a completist, but I've bought Pulp and the entire run of Reckless. Some other one-shots. All of Criminal (which I assume from "in which I bemoaned them only appearing once more" isn't in this list?), Fatale and Velvet. The Fade Out is missing, mostly because it's so bloody expensive on the second-hand market.
I dropped off a little once the started focusing on OGN. Not really sure why. I really must get back on board as they are really good!