finished no country for old men by cormac mccarthy yesterday. excellent stuff, like raymond carver had been given a tarantino script to rewrite.
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finished no country for old men by cormac mccarthy yesterday. excellent stuff, like raymond carver had been given a tarantino script to rewrite.
it's fucking brilliant.f.c. ware - jimmy corrigan: the smartest kid on earth (anyone ever read this? the only graphic novel I've ever managed to stick with for more than a few pages. hugely depressing so far though)
so far I like it. I just hope the tone picks up a bit at some stage.it's fucking brilliant.
now im thinking of re-starting everything is illuminated for the 600th time....
Before that Magnus Mills' "All Quiet on the Orient Express" - fantastic!!
I finished 'walk the blue fields' by Claire Keegan. It's short stories and I'd really recommend it to anyone who likes John McGahern or Annie Proulx.
yeh i hadn't heard of him before. the girlfriend urged me to buy 'The Scheme' when we came across it 2nd hand. I did enjoy it, but read 'All quiet' after and found if far funnier. Brilliantly surreal. I will read 'Restraint of Beasts' too but have to take a little break from him for the moment. Great writing though.He is the funniest writer ever! I just read that one a few books ago and have since read 'the scheme for full employment' which was side-splitting. I suggested 'the restraint of beasts ' for the book club back when it had it's own site. But 'All Quiet..' is probably my favourite (although I can't wait to read the rest of his work). Spared, sharp, simple, painfully funny.And grim. Never has banal British colloqualisms been rendered in such a gas manner.
Jesus, that character with the paper crown. All I could think of was Willie Ross!
Just begun William Maxwell's 'Time will darken it'.
Just finished Lionel Shriver's 'The Post-birthday World'. Its nowhere near as good as 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'. It took me a while to get into it but I'm glad I stuck with it. It has a parallel universe structure which kept me interested but I found the portrait of the world of snooker a bit tedious.
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