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haha I've a sneaking suspicion I'd think the same if I ever read it again.

Classic Lili Marlene

LOL

Blurb: "In this explosive new book, renowned Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn analyzes events leading up to the seizure by jihadis of a vast territory spanning the Iraq-Syria border." Uh...

"One by one, working with great speed and precision, he stabs out the boy's eyes." amirite?

I quit 'The Hermit' by Eugène Ionesco after the first page, but only because that first page was so good I couldn't see how the remainder could possibly live up to it. I'll go back to it eventually.

About 40 pages into this. So far he's coming across like a less corrosive Céline, or a more readable Wyndham Lewis. I'll probably get through it in a couple of sittings.

Yeah, ever since I moved into that cork-lined room.

About the same length as Shaney? Two months? We've discussed this before. A few weeks back I was struggling to get much beyond page 200.

What a loser. I'm on page 324 of volume 2. !gloat edit: That gloat head looks a bit like Proust actually.

I finished this last night actually. It was just okay. Quite awkwardly translated (I imagine). Not much narrative skill on display either. A lot of "btws" and pop-up characters who you're supposed to give a shit about, but who pop back down again just as quickly. The drawings get less...

I had an extended flick through these: oddly depressing from what I read so far. Surprisingly progressive.

I bought this today: The author: Ride writes book about Nabokov. You couldn't make it up! :heart::heart::heart:

I saw that the other day. All I know about A.J. Ayer are the two anecdotes. This: and this (explaining why he said grace at his college): bit of a character

This lot? http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00454ZKS4/?tag=thumpedcom04-21

Where are you getting these Anna Kavan books Shaney? They sound tasty.

yuck

Overwritten, overlong. Took forever. Mostly cobblers. I didn't have the foggiest what was going on much of the time. I now understand some of the problems people have with Amis. I also read Areopagitica on my e-reader - looks like Milton won. !gloat

Good man Woody. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/06/woody-allen-top-five-books

I have Melancholy of Resistance but I haven't got round to reading it yet. Immensely long sentences? Bring 'em on. Central European writers seem to love that shit. This is great, and is made up entirely of one huge sentence (it's a short novella admittedly):