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Dillinger4
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JerryLundegaard said:
I read this a few months ago.
This might sound strange, but when I read it, I thought 'this doesn't seem so bad'.
I was thinking it would be horror in the style of the holocaust or something.
But I suppose that is the whole point. How a humans can adapt to the most insane conditions they might find themselves in.
I realized the point of view I had come to was the point of view of Ivan Denisovitch himself.
Very good book, highly recommend it.
Dirty Martini
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Not my usual thing, a present from my mum, whose favourite book it's become. I'm kind of enjoying it, apart from the telegraphed heartstring-pulling and occasionally portentous grammar.
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chooch said:
Read the journalism too, if you can find it. It is the shit.
He didn't write a single shit sentence as far as I can tell
Dillinger4 said:I read this a few months ago.
This might sound strange, but when I read it, I thought 'this doesn't seem so bad'.
I was thinking it would be horror in the style of the holocaust or something.
But I suppose that is the whole point. How a humans can adapt to the most insane conditions they might find themselves in.
I realized the point of view I had come to was the point of view of Ivan Denisovitch himself.
Very good book, highly recommend it.
I know exactly what you mean, I assumed it would be a political attack on the Stalinist regime, but it wasn't heavy-handed in the slightest. It would have been so easy to show life in the Gulag in the worst possible light by making the protagonist less experienced with dealing with prison life, but instead we are given a portrait of an expert in overcoming indignities and deprivations.
The funny thing is, almost any 'first-hand' account of the Gulag could have ended up being published at the time because nobody had dared to attempt it, and instead of being a sensationalist exposé it is a subtly written masterpiece.
Can't recommend it highly enough.
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chooch said:Dear god. Does it come with piano arpeggios and slow motion make-ups and break-ups?
'And from that moment, [insert person/place/mood] would never be the same again.'
Dirty Martini
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chooch said:May very well be true. The later, drunk stuff is a little weaker, maybe.
Ah. Not read the late late stuff
Dirty Martini
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chooch said:
I'm waiting for the strings, the shot of an oddly still sepia foreground against background bustle in 1940s chicago and the close-up on audrey tautou's first oversized tear.
All transposed to 70s Kabul, if that makes sense.
Nah, it's keepng me reading. For some reason buried deep, I like long descriptions of fine houses and the varieties of tree grown in their gardens. There always bougainvillea somewhere.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Just finished 99 Francs by Frédéric Beigbeder. Quite an entertaining read and I have a couple of his other books on their way from Amazon France
My inner transport buff needed feeding, so today I started on Christian Wolmar's The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever.
My inner transport buff needed feeding, so today I started on Christian Wolmar's The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It Changed the City Forever.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark. A slim novel, but probably all the better for it than a weightier tome.... not a single word is wasted.
bluestreak
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is muriel spark any good mrs m?
Structaural
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Angela's Ashes - cheery isn't it?
TheDave said:
Great book, I'm a big fan of French misanthropists, so i particularly liked this line in Nausea:
"The fellow with the moustache has enormous nostrils that could pump air for a whole family and that eat up half his face"
JerryLundegaard said:Great book, I'm a big fan of French misanthropists, so i particularly liked this line in Nausea:
"The fellow with the moustache has enormous nostrils that could pump air for a whole family and that eat up half his face"
I only perused a few pages so far, seems pretty interesting. I'll have to look out for that line.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I'm not ashamed to say that I learned the same.El Jefe said:
In fact I've put a few of the titles listed in the bibliography down on my "must get" list.
Dirty Martini
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chooch said:
What did you think?
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
As well as coming to the end of Vampire Junction, which I am absolutely loving, I'm reading a collection of essays called A Dark Night's Dreaming: Contemporary American Horror Fiction. It's good
We're supposed to be reading The Kite Runner for book club this month...I'm not too jazzed about it, tbh, although it sounds like an easy read.
We're supposed to be reading The Kite Runner for book club this month...I'm not too jazzed about it, tbh, although it sounds like an easy read.
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May Kasahara said:
I finished this last night. Meh. It turns the pages, but, Christ, it's about as manipulative as fiction gets. Portentous revelatory sentence to end every section for example ('I never saw him again', 'And then I knew', that sort of stuff), fantastic coincidences, book club clues dropped at every turn. It has the rhythm of the big film it's just become. Ugh.
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