May Kasahara
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*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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is it good? i really enjoyed his 'Do Not Pass Go'.
this week i've finished About the Author by John Colapinto and read The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett and just started Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
It is pretty good so far, I'm only a couple of chapters in though. I can fully and heartily recommend Frost On My Moustache, French Revolutions and Continental Drifter though - all books that fascinated while making me snort tea out of my nose on a regular basis 
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Moby Dick is a very slooooooow read.
Ain't that the truth. I gave up
I've just started A Room of One's Own. Only finished the first chapter but it's great (obv) so far.
Next on my list is either an Evelyn Waugh novel, Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead (which I've been meaning to read for ages), or Native Son.
Oh or Stephen Fry's autobiog.
One of my favourite books ever. Just absolutely blew me away. A lot of people think it tricksy and wanky, and while I can see why they think it, that's an important part of the book, it's crucial in the overall structure of it.
Read it, stick with it when you think you might give up. It's worth it, I promise.
Haven't started it yet, but I did pick it up because it looked incredibly interesting structurally
May well start it later then
Have you got the hardback, the regular paperback or the paperback with an upside down cover on the back (IYSWIM)?
They're all quite different
Have you got the hardback, the regular paperback or the paperback with an upside down cover on the back (IYSWIM)?
They're all quite different
This one
What, different in actual content?
Yeh, there's a whole extra bit in the back of the one you have, some of which is unrelated to the main book, some of which is about the reactions to the main book, stuff like that. Like I said, it's all very tricksy / po-mo...
Got halfway through this last night, and it's a blinding read.
I know what you mean Jefe, but I absolutely LOVE what he does with the text - it's very clever but without being Pynchon-like dense. Had me literally laughing out loud at points, have recognised a lot of situations and feelings from my own life as a parent and a survivor of serious trauma as well, and I'm quite simply loving it
Works on sooo many levels for meGot halfway through this last night, and it's a blinding read.
I know what you mean Jefe, but I absolutely LOVE what he does with the text - it's very clever but without being Pynchon-like dense. Had me literally laughing out loud at points, have recognised a lot of situations and feelings from my own life as a parent and a survivor of serious trauma as well, and I'm quite simply loving it
Ah, so glad you're enjoying it. Some people - to my immense confusing - seemed to think the middle stretch was boring, which to me seemed to totally miss the point.
if I were you, I'd read the 30 or 40 pages somewhere private
I was laughing at the start when he said 'you don't have to read the preface' etc
Clever, and consciously and knowingly() clever - brilliant, love it.
Righty ho - I shall be alone on my couch tonight
It's one of those books I don't want to finish, and I also thought 'why the FUCK didn't this exist when I was planning my dissertation'. Christ - I could write a book about this book
Clever, and consciously and knowingly(
) clever - brilliant, love it. Righty ho - I shall be alone on my couch tonight
It's one of those books I don't want to finish, and I also thought 'why the FUCK didn't this exist when I was planning my dissertation'. Christ - I could write a book about this book
I was laughing at the start when he said 'you don't have to read the preface' etc
Clever, and consciously and knowingly(
Righty ho - I shall be alone on my couch tonight
It's one of those books I don't want to finish, and I also thought 'why the FUCK didn't this exist when I was planning my dissertation'. Christ - I could write a book about this book
I got half an essay on post-modernism out of it
I got half an essay on post-modernism out of it
Only half? Blimey - you slacker! There's 1000s of words to be written about that!
damnhippie
shark sandwich
The Book of Dave by Will Self. it's absorbing but depressing. also it helps if you have a tolerance for phonetically-spelled out dialogue. i don't.
nice dystopic vision of future london, mind.
nice dystopic vision of future london, mind.
Only half? Blimey - you slacker! There's 1000s of words to be written about that!
Ah, but it wouldn't have fitted the title..
Line up the Eggers book in your "donate to oxfam" pile. Save yourself the bother. Eggers book re-writes the rules for pretension; please don't believe that the title was meant in an "ironic" way. After a promising start, it slows down to snails pace and pretty soon stops moving all together. That guy is so far up his own arse his tongue comes out of his mouth two times....
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Just finished the new Irvine Welsh, Crime. Return to form for Welsh, after his previous two dissapointments. The last 20 pages or so drag out the "redemption" theme a little too far, but over all well worth a read. Just started working with children with sexually harmful behaviour, and a lot of what happens in the book fits in with what I have been told to expect at my induction.....
Reading Ben Eltons Past Mortem. Elton is always readable, whatever you think of the man himself. I think I've spotted the killer (I'm about 320 pages in...) and am positive that I have identified the main red herring. Not his strongest work, so far, but not his weakest. Abscence of humour is annoying me...
Also did the first 70 pages of the Godfather last night and this morning. Am enjoying it so far. Some of the extra details that were missing from the film are really rounding up the story for me. I've been keeping an open for this book for a while now so am glad I finally got a copy.
Reading Ben Eltons Past Mortem. Elton is always readable, whatever you think of the man himself. I think I've spotted the killer (I'm about 320 pages in...) and am positive that I have identified the main red herring. Not his strongest work, so far, but not his weakest. Abscence of humour is annoying me...
Also did the first 70 pages of the Godfather last night and this morning. Am enjoying it so far. Some of the extra details that were missing from the film are really rounding up the story for me. I've been keeping an open for this book for a while now so am glad I finally got a copy.
apparently I'm missing the point
I hear that one of his sisters topped herself recently. Maybe she "got it" and was so heartbroken that she had to end her life. Or maybe she just realised that she was related to one of the biggest fuckwits in contemporary US lit....
I'm finding it refreshingly NOT up itself, compared to lots of other 'clever' stuff I've read
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
A Spike Milligan biography. Quite an even-handed assessment so far (i.e. comedy genius but prone to being a selfish egotistical bastard too!)
I'm reading The Echoing Green, The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World by Joshua Prager.
It's about the famous home run hit by Scots born Thomson to clinch a best of 3 play-off for the New York Giants to qualify for the World Series.
It's about the famous home run hit by Scots born Thomson to clinch a best of 3 play-off for the New York Giants to qualify for the World Series.
Biddlybee
making knots with sticks
Ah, that's one I want to add to my list.
I'm still reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay... really enjoying it, but I'm a slow reader, and only read on the bus
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