Benedict Kiely did a book that was like a travelogue of Ireland with poems, prose, and poetry. It was pretty good.
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Yep. "Hilarious" book.Listening to Confederacy of Dunces. So far, its just listening to a complete fucking asshole named Ignacious being a total prick. Nothing much else.
wasnt there something like that featured for that one-city,one-book thing last year?
Don't waste your time. I really struggled with it, as in forced myself to finish it. I didn't laugh once, I mean not once, not even at the rubber glove wanking scenes which I would usually find quite funny in a childish sort of way. If I hear anyone mention "retarded world view" or "mongoloid" again, I'm going to shoot them.I'm going to have to re-read COD now to prove you all wrong. I'm going to audio-record myself laughing uproariously and upload that here.
I'm reading one of the David Foster Wallace journalism collections, to see what the fuss is about and placate friends who have been trying to push Infinite Jest on me for the past decade. S'alright so far. The footnotes within footnotes within footnotes thing gets tiresome quickly but i've laughed out loud several times.
was reading about her there recently, if you read one let us know how it goesAnyone here read any of those Elena Ferrante novels? Thinking of giving them a go ...
was reading about her there recently, if you read one let us know how it goes
The last new book I read which I thought was great was Will Self's Umbrella. It's fairly dense and self-consciously postmodern but he makes it work.I'm back in the swing of reading every day, but currently its utter trash. I'd really appreciate a recommendation of a great contemporary novel.
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