What Book Did You Read Last Night??? (1 Viewer)

[St. Fechin]

You need:

I came *this* close to buying a copy from upstairs in Chapters a couple of months ago. (not really)

If you read FW out loud in David Norris's voice it makes perfect sense, apparently.

 

[IFF]

How is it going anyway IFF? What page you up to?

i finished it at the start of June.

it took over 5 months to read
very tough, minimal understanding

 

[Lili Marlene]

You need:

I came *this* close to buying a copy from upstairs in Chapters a couple of months ago. (not really)

If you read FW out loud in David Norris's voice it makes perfect sense, apparently.

God, are you that prick on the amazon reviews?

i finished it at the start of June.

it took over 5 months to read
very tough, minimal understanding

sure you just started again, right? maybe this time

 

[St. Fechin]

God, are you that prick on the amazon reviews?

hahaha

This is my favourite Amazon review (of Ulysses):

My goodness, I honestly pity those unfortunately pretentious people that claim this is a good, let alone great, piece of literature.

The reality is, Joyce wrote this book knowing that the psudo-intellectuals would read into it in the fear of being regarded as less intellectual than their piers.

Let me set the record straight, I have an official Mensa IQ of 169, and i studied this book at university. Do you know what I thought?

This book is useless. It's nonesense... and it's meant to be. The joke is on you people that actually buy into the lie and hype of this work. It is nothing but random clip bits of a meaningless bunch of boring characters.

Those who haven't read it: you gain more from not doing so, because reading this book will do nothing but depress you!

The comments are great too.

 

[Lili Marlene]

It's at times like this that I wish I knew what my 100% Official Authorised Mensa IQ was.

 

[ann post]

i've always thought that mensa was possibly a useful tool for MI5 or the CIA - a big database of all the people who think they are smart, and information about which fields they excel in. when world war three kicks off mensa members will be high on eastasia and eurasias lists of people to erase.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

It's at times like this that I wish I knew what my 100% Official Authorised Mensa IQ was.

159 yaaah me!

 

[ann post]

are you in mensa mormon?

 

[Lili Marlene]

Would you prefer to be a member of mensa or beautifulpeople.com?

 

[ann post]

do i have to choose now?

winnie from the wonder years was on the radio talking about her new book today. she could be a member of both.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

are you in mensa mormon?

Years ago as a kid - never went to any events or anything - just got sent the magazine every once in a while. Gradully became well sick of it, the magine was full of serious peole arguing very politely about stuff.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Would you prefer to be a member of mensa or beautifulpeople.com?

I resent your implication - I'm a lash.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I like the word nonesense, only a genius could have invented that.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Nonsense or nonesense?

I'm trying to figure out at what level you're impressed

 

[hugh]

hahaha

This is my favourite Amazon review (of Ulysses):

That's gas. How could someone be less intellectual than a pier anyway?

 

[rettucs]

I read the Savage Detectives over the weekend when on holidays. Very good read. Very different narrative style from the norm, and it could be hard enough to follow at times. Plus all the namedropping of the Mexican literary figures may have meant more to some people than it did to me, cos I hadn't a clue who any of them were (bar Octavio Paz, and I'd only heard of him because Six Organs of Admittance named an album after him).

Next, finally, 'Rough Ride'. Never got around to reading it, which hasn't done anything to help my confidence in cycling circles.

 

[IFF]

I read the Savage Detectives over the weekend when on holidays. Very good read. Very different narrative style from the norm, and it could be hard enough to follow at times. Plus all the namedropping of the Mexican literary figures may have meant more to some people than it did to me, cos I hadn't a clue who any of them were (bar Octavio Paz, and I'd only heard of him because Six Organs of Admittance named an album after him).

it's on my book shelf waiting to be read, probably will start when i finish "island beneath the sea" by isabel allende

sure you just started again, right? maybe this time

no, i started at end of december and finished at start of june. i have completed it
it was my first time reading it after it spend 15 months on my to be read shelf taunting me.

 

[Lili Marlene]

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.

Spoiler

New York teenager goes to spend the summer with her cousins in the UK in an effort to cheer her up/cure her of eating disorder. Falls in love with cousin. Lots of underage incestual sex follows.

Just as you think this is going to be a book addressing Important Emotional Teenage Issues a big bloody world war breaks out, England is occupied and suddenly the more pertinent problems are actually having food to eat and not being murdered.

she also has a brilliant way of writing where Every Second Word is Capitalized.

To summarise, here are two sentences a couple of chapters apart:

So there we are carrying on our happy little life of under-age sex, child labour and espionage when someone came to visit us which, after weeks of Just Us Five kind of took us by surprise, to put it mildly.

and

And then in an almost lazy kind of way the checkpoint guy who'd been looking at him raised his gun and pulled the trigger and there was a loud crack and part of Joe's face exploded and there was blood everywhere and he fell over out of the truck into the road

 

[MDR]

I'm reading Middlemarch by George Eliot. Being a Hardy fan Eliot is a natural next move for me. It's supposed to be one of the greatest novels of all time I'm about 500 pages into it and while it's an impressive book it has none of Hardy's feeling. The narrator never really leaves your shoulder to let you get into the characters - I preferred Felix holt - the radical.

 

[jonah]

Eliot never felt as dark or exciting for me as Hardy. I've read 'Silas Marner' and prefered that to 'Middlemarch' but wouldn't call myself a fan overall. Daniel Deronda's probably the best, albeit problematic.