What The New Yorker Was Afraid To Print: Slayer's Responses
Posted by MC Trouble on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 @ 08:02 PM
Where do The SCORPS meet?
Though the meeting places change from session to session, a good example of a SCORPS event locale would be Mos Eisley spaceport from Star Wars. Anywhere, you find a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" you'll probably find a SCORP or two.
Did you enjoy the last book you read in the club? Can you sum up your thoughts on the book in three sentences or less?
Considering we read Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, which contains a sentence that is over 250 words, I'm not sure you have enough room for me to answer this in three sentences but I'll try. If his purpose was to write one true sentence, I would say, for the most part, Hemingway succeeded many times over for this book. And, like all Hemingway works, it made me thirsty. There I did it.
Would you recommend the book for other clubs? Why or why not?
I am not aware of any other book clubs but if there are some out there I would recommend any of Hemingway's books. He was the original SCORPION and would have loved our meetings though, rightly, he probably would have only shown up if we read one of his books.
What's the best book you've read in the club?
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy. Just the two titles alone are better than anything we've read. Plus, he used the word "quirt" in a sentence. ‘Nuff said.
What's the book you enjoyed least?
Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne was not SCORP worthy. I give the guy credit for self-publishing it after being rejected by every publisher in the world. And God bless him for getting every tween in America to read it and for getting a movie deal - cha-ching! But tweens also like the Jonas Brothers and Myley Cyrus. SCORPS do not.
Is there a type of book you think works best for group discussions?
Though you'd think the SCORPS would tend toward non-fiction, fiction books have definitely made for livelier discussions. Must be something about fiction being made up, which is close to lying/bluffing/exaggerating/cheating - all SCORPION pastimes.
Preferred beverage at meetings?
PBR p.d.q.
Preferred food?
Once, when I was at McSorely's, the bartender turned off the TV because, in his words, "TV slows down drinking." SCORPS feel the same way about food.
Why you wanted to be in a book club:
There is no, how you say, "want." Did those robot lions in that Voltron cartoon want to be vehicles that combined into an all-powerful-super robot? No, that's how they were made. SCORPS are made a certain way and when we were all finally close enough to come together we had no choice but to combine and create an all-powerful-super book club.