What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (5 Viewers)

[Milker]

anyone read this? the spaniards tale is going on for EVER!!!

 

[magicbastarder]

shaney - what translation did you read? i've never really read many translated books.

 

[pete]

pretty good. like a very, very, very (very) long Twilight Zone episode.

 

[snakybus]

Just finished Austerlitz by WG Sebald there last night. Hard to describe how I feel about it, to be honest. I've never read anything like it before, and I want to go back and read it again.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Austerlitz is a deadly book. I'd like to reread a couple of his to see if they're as good as I remember but I haven't risked it just in case they're not. I prefer The Rings Of Saturn but I think that's only because it was the first of his that I read

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Just finished Austerlitz by WG Sebald there last night. Hard to describe how I feel about it, to be honest. I've never read anything like it before, and I want to go back and read it again.

i read that recently. beautiful book.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

i've read almost nothing but fiction for the past two years so i'm thoroughly enjoying re-reading one of my favourite non-fiction books.

 

[hugh]

Been meaning to start reading Austerlitz for a few weeks now. Liked Rings Of Saturn a lot.

 

[snakybus]

Been meaning to start reading Austerlitz for a few weeks now. Liked Rings Of Saturn a lot.

takes a while to get going, for the first 30 pages you're kind of like "what's he banging on about?", though I suppose if you've read other Sebald you'll be accustomed to his rambling ways.

 

[hugh]

takes a while to get going, for the first 30 pages you're kind of like "what's he banging on about?", though I suppose if you've read other Sebald you'll be accustomed to his rambling ways.

Ah yeah ... I think you have to read his stuff slowly and not get frustrated when it doesn't develop into any "normal" kind of narrative. I find that there tend to be some sections that I completely latch on to and find completely gripping, and others that just drift by me. They are the kind of book that demand re-reading ...

 

[snakybus]

Definitely!

Reading MW by Osama Tezuka at the moment. Weird as heck but not as much as "Ode to Kirihito", which was bananas.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

shaney - what translation did you read? i've never really read many translated books.

by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), D.J. Enright (Revisions)

More of a team effort really

 

[rettucs]

pretty good. like a very, very, very (very) long Twilight Zone episode.

the man knows how to tell a story, thats for sure. I was a little uncomfortable with his mixing actual history with his crazy fiction, but overall I did enjoy it. Would be great holiday reading as its not too taxing. I got through it in about 2 days.

 

[pete]

the man knows how to tell a story, thats for sure. I was a little uncomfortable with his mixing actual history with his crazy fiction, but overall I did enjoy it. Would be great holiday reading as its not too taxing. I got through it in about 2 days.

Yeah I flew through it in a couple of days on me holidays.

 

[dunderhead]

just finished ritual by david pinner.

the book which The Wicker Man was (kind of) based on. loads of weirdness in a small cornish village - a policeman comes to investigate. I was expecting it to be very similar to the movie. which it wasn't. which was great. huge fan of the The Wicker Man so was delighted when i realised after reading a few chapters that it was basically a different story with a strong WM feel throughout. there are one or two very similar characters alright. well worth a read anyway, all film associations aside.

first print that finders keepers, that great reissue music label, have put out

 

[Psycho Punk]

just finished ritual by david pinner.

the book which The Wicker Man was (kind of) based on. loads of weirdness in a small cornish village - a policeman comes to investigate. I was expecting it to be very similar to the movie. which it wasn't. which was great. huge fan of the The Wicker Man so was delighted when i realised after reading a few chapters that it was basically a different story with a strong WM feel throughout. there are one or two very similar characters alright. well worth a read anyway, all film associations aside.

first print that finders keepers, that great reissue music label, have put out

I'll look out for that.

Anyone see The Wicker Tree? Out on dvd now. Got a terrible (2/10) review in the Fortean Times.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I'll look out for that.

Anyone see The Wicker Tree? Out on dvd now. Got a terrible (2/10) review in the Fortean Times.

I saw the Wicker Tree. It's appalling. 2/10 is generous. Genuinely one of the worst films I've ever seen. It was amateurish beyond belief. I've seen student films that were more competently made than this. And I'm a big fan of The Wicker Man

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

No, thank you for turning me on to this socialism

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

ah here pete; could you not delete my post while you were at it?

 

[pete]

ah here pete; could you not delete my post while you were at it?

Where's the fun in that?