Comments on: Make Otis Your Monkey http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/ Personal blog of Brad "Otis" Willis, writer, traveler, amateur photographer, and family man Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:57:18 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/10122722061180065366" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1221 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1221 You may like American Gods by Neil Gaiman You may like American Gods by Neil Gaiman

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05357131421636224573" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1222 I posed the same question to several people we know recently...it's my goal to read a book every week this summer. <BR/>I just finished Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson - excellent book. I haven't yet decided what my next one will be...my "reading list" looks like something from a graduate level English course. :) I posed the same question to several people we know recently…it’s my goal to read a book every week this summer.
I just finished Case Histories, by Kate Atkinson – excellent book. I haven’t yet decided what my next one will be…my “reading list” looks like something from a graduate level English course. :)

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13356002194786025701" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1223 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1223 I'm currently reading "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace. His mastery of ninety nine cent words is fucking disheartening. Enjoying the essays though. I’m currently reading “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” by David Foster Wallace. His mastery of ninety nine cent words is fucking disheartening. Enjoying the essays though.

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01204892722971192671" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1224 I read "Infinite Jest" by Wallace. Not bad, but its been YEARS.<BR/><BR/>Are you looking for fiction or non? I read “Infinite Jest” by Wallace. Not bad, but its been YEARS.

Are you looking for fiction or non?

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span> <span class="anon-comment-author">Anonymous</span> http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1225 Anonymous Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1225 What's wrong with ya-ya panties? <BR/><BR/>That's my vote. <BR/><BR/>Of course, that's.... only if you write about it.<BR/><BR/>Funniest thing I've read all day.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for that! What’s wrong with ya-ya panties?

That’s my vote.

Of course, that’s…. only if you write about it.

Funniest thing I’ve read all day.

Thank you for that!

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/01489008891620516671" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1226 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1226 a) you know you can take your change to your Real Live Bank and they'll deposit it into your checking account for free, right? :)<BR/><BR/>b) Blink, by Malcom Gladwell if you haven't read it yet. <BR/><BR/>Freakonomics by Steven Levitt<BR/><BR/>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon<BR/><BR/>The gospel according to biff, by Christopher Moore<BR/><BR/>Mountains beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder<BR/><BR/>Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri<BR/><BR/>Wow, is that enough? a) you know you can take your change to your Real Live Bank and they’ll deposit it into your checking account for free, right? :)

b) Blink, by Malcom Gladwell if you haven’t read it yet.

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The gospel according to biff, by Christopher Moore

Mountains beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

Wow, is that enough?

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span> <span class="anon-comment-author">Anonymous</span> http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1227 Anonymous Anonymous Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1227 Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon anon-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/anon16-rounded.gif" alt="Anonymous" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://20six.fr/bettychristine" rel="nofollow">BettyChristine</a http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1228 Anonymous BettyChristine Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1228 "The Girls" by Elaine Kagan,<BR/>"Remembrance of Things Past' by Marcel Proust,<BR/>"These Demented Lands" by Alan Warner. “The Girls” by Elaine Kagan,
“Remembrance of Things Past’ by Marcel Proust,
“These Demented Lands” by Alan Warner.

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/15485204785208404528" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1229 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1229 I think a good summer read for you would be something by Kinky Friedman. I've recommended him to the good doctor as well. I think a good summer read for you would be something by Kinky Friedman. I’ve recommended him to the good doctor as well.

]]> By: <span style="line-height:16px" class="comment-icon blogger-comment-icon"><img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" alt="Blogger" style="display:inline;" /></span> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09253225866725663600" rel="nofollow http://www.rapideyereality.com/archives/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/comment-page-1/#comment-1230 Blogger http://www.rapideyereality.com/blog/2006/06/09/make-otis-your-monkey/#comment-1230 If you haven't already read it, you gotta get "All Over But The Shoutin'" by Rick Bragg. It's as far as "chick lit" as you can get. Oh, and if you're willing to share that 215 w/Mrs. Otis, my recommendation for her is a juicy, poolside book, "The Washingtonienne", by former Senate aide turned blogger who lost her job when powerful people discovered said blog. If you haven’t already read it, you gotta get “All Over But The Shoutin’” by Rick Bragg. It’s as far as “chick lit” as you can get. Oh, and if you’re willing to share that 215 w/Mrs. Otis, my recommendation for her is a juicy, poolside book, “The Washingtonienne”, by former Senate aide turned blogger who lost her job when powerful people discovered said blog.

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