Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Finished The Idiot, which was fantastic. I have to read more Russians, so now it's Fathers and Sons by I Turgenev.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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That's cos McMurtry is the fucking don
He is. I've been really hooked by this...and it seems to go on forever 
So dense, so many different strands. Almost romanticising that kind of life, but then showing the brutality and brevity of it. I do love Woodrow Call - I think he's my favourite character - out of a whole host of interesting and many-layered charactersericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
I'm a massive fan, and in my view it's (marginally) her best book. Apart from her wonderfully concise prose, I love the way she views human failings with sympathy but no sentimentality. It's a book I believe EVERYONE should read.
Yeah I really enjoyed that,
Apart from that the only Bowles I've read was Let It Come Down which is set in Tangier and is pretty bleak (partly due to the drizzly rain). I'm keen to set aside a week for The Spider House sometime.
But currently finishing Brothers Karamazov and starting The Good Soldier Schweik (get out and buy this NOW if you haven't read it). Also been reading through A Doll's House which I'd love to see in performance as the dialoue alone doesn't do it justice methinks.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
In Search of Lost Time (Vol 1) - Proust
It had to happen eventually.
It had to happen eventually.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Good Soldier Schweik = so what's the best translation? sounds interesting..
finished a raft of books lately which is good. tidied my shelves up, nahwotimean?!
Hmm, I've not encountered many and those I have are somewhat flawed. I have an early edition from the 50s which is seriously abridged, omitting various jokes about notable Austro Hungarian personages and other assorted obscenities!
The second edition I have is the newest Penguin Classics translated by Cecil Parrott. He admits that it probably isn't complete because Hasek never finished it, wasn't too organised about producing a definitive version (or indeed organised about anything) and often wrote/dictated in colloquial Czech so it's hard to translate. But he thinks it's the least abridged version possible.
I'd buy the newest Parrott translation from Penguin.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Fathers and Sons was very fine, now I'm reading The Steppe & Other Stories by A Chekhov.
Finished The Iron Council, which I thought was very good, but I'll have to talk to dotcommunist about the ending - it's a great ending in terms of the book, but I wonder what he's trying to say in terms of his real world politics (which are more explicit in this book than the others)
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"This Thing of Darkness" by Harry Thompson
Had it on my bookshelf for about 3 years but kept passing it over. Decided to give it a go and it is shaping up well.
Had it on my bookshelf for about 3 years but kept passing it over. Decided to give it a go and it is shaping up well.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
sentimentalist.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
that's nothing. my flatmate is going on a pilgrimage to shepperton tomorrow.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i do like your tagline atm
Have been reading Lonesome Dove since 11am - I thought I'd be finished by now, but have another 50 pages to go, and since I have started drinking, I thought it wiser to leave the rest til tomorrow. I also just don't want it to finish, even though my heart is breaking 
Oh, and Clara has completely replaced Call in my affections
Oh, and Clara has completely replaced Call in my affections
That's sat on my bedside table, awaiting further dips into it
Well it won't, because people are more used to the ideas now. I still found it really interesting. Just not interesting enough to keep me away from all the fiction I have waiting to be read
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