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Sounds like a less jewish American Pastoral. If Hawley can hold his attention on one subject for more than a page i'll give it a read.

Yup. Tough going. It's like a blueprint for White Noise. Everything is there, the work life, the family life, the broad world view of politics and society and the high concept plot device (in this case the cult in White Noise the inhaled death and...... I don't want to spoiler the latter half of...

Currently closing out the last 40 pages of The Names by Don De Lillo. Stick the the fucking point for fuck sake man. At times it reads like he went off his meds. I'm all for complex narratives but some times it is what it is in this case it's just messy. Such a strangely malformed novel...

I'll have to re-watch it. It's years since I saw it at the time I thought the performances made more of what was a fairly thin script but in hindsight the main character (Chisanski) comes with such a wait and presence once you've read the novels that perhaps that gravitas is more present once...

I Read that Women and Ham On Rye within a month of each other they just got better and better. Unfortunately that's all of his work that's available on Kindle so I'll have to either read the rest in a regular book (not going to happen) or download a pirate copy. I feel a bit bad about it but...

Read it recently it was everything I was expecting and more.

There's been a few times that once I've finished a novel I'll go back and read a few passages just to admire the writing. Geek Love by Katherine Dunne and everything I've read by J.G Ballard have left me in awe them. I'm yet to re-read anything completely. Although I did have to re-start...

I think that one might be my favourite chapter, it just comes out of nowhere. It's amazingly well written. I might re-read it soon. My lady re-read it last year and said it was even better the second time. Mind you she also finished 2666 and then just flipped it over and started again which is...

Let me know when you get to "He Spread the mayo on the bread. Never on the meat" I was completely addicted by that point.

Finished The Savage Detectives. It's brilliant. 50 characters charting 20 odd years and 4 continents, it's pretty typical ambitious Belano stuff. The writing is excellent if a little too academic at times and then bizarrely melodramatic at other times. I guess the later is just how Latin...

Yeah I heard Junkie is pretty "straight" n comparison to Naked Lunch. I'll be giving it a go after I get through my current purchases.

JG Ballard reviews WS Burroughs in 1966 I liked Naked Lunch in that it did what it was supposed to do and made me feel ill at times. Since reading it I've been drawn more and more to works like it, like Ballard, the painted bird etc. I always thought Naked Lunch was more like a demented Catch...

I envy you.

Finished The Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Pretty much everything that's been said about it is true. It's a head melting masterpiece. Started The Savage detectives by Roberto Belano, it's great.

I liked it while i was reading it for exactly for the reasons Bernie seems to have disliked it. But it left me cold when I finished it. I think I posted on here that I liked it at the time, which I did but with time I found myself feeling a bit short changed and empty. It's like Cave read a...

Best of luck. It is deeply unpleasant. Edit: Ha, dyslexia thine soul is salty and tough

I liked it, but then I also liked Crash and The Painted Bird. Never read them Bernie. To be honest when Bunny Monroe gets to where it's going it's not as satisfying as it should be. In other words if you weren't enjoying it you're not missing much.

Rory is not a girls name. And Sookie and Paris just aren't names.

25 I've no idea what hell that's all about though who is this Rory fella ?

Sounds exactly like Dharma Bums. I know to avoid that one too now. Ta.