Repelies
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Slightly off topic but did anyone see that crap interview last week on the LL?
the writing is shocking flowery so far (20 pages in).
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Slightly off topic but did anyone see that crap interview last week on the LL?
the writing is shocking flowery so far (20 pages in).
I love Bruce but I can't watch or listen to anything that has tubridy in it.Slightly off topic but did anyone see that crap interview last week on the LL?
Apparently Tubs said it got off to an awkward start when he bumped into Sprinsteen in the hotel elevator beforehand hahahaha. The skinny prick got all tongue tied and offered him a gift of two vintage bottles of Irish Whiskey. Bruce suggested getting two glasses but the stupid cunt turned him down ahahahahahahah. Imagine turning down an offer of a drink with a legend like that. What sort of a fucking idiot is he!?? LOLI love Bruce but I can't watch or listen to anything that has tubridy in it.
I have no doubt it was dreadful.
Well somebody has got to pay his 200k a week..nice work if you can get it ..though it does help if you have close connections to FF.I like Tubbs. His interview with Jeremy Paxman was a bit awkward
oh yeah i've been meaning to read that.Grand Hotel Abyss: Stuart Jeffries
Biography and description of main ideas of the Frankfurt school thinkers. Handy if you don't want to have to actually go and read Adorno, Benjamin et al.
Angela Carter- Nights at the Circus
Really, really difficult; hugely intellectual, masterclass level writing - jumping from character to character and first to third person narrative constantly and effortlessly- but a little too arch and unfriendly for me.
Starts in London and ends in Siberia having pretty much metaphorically, and occasionally literally, burnt down the entire of civilization along the way. Considering its mostly about a foul mouthed cockney woman with wings who works in a circus it should have rollicked along, and I get the impression that it certainly thinks that's what its doing, but I found it very slow paced in parts.
Still though, incredibly memorable and there is so much in there. It made me feel very small on many levels.
It was a very different experience to the Bloody Chamber, much denser writing, I haven't read Wise Children though. I know that was her last book so it's probably as hard.Sounds great! I've only read The Bloody Chamber and Wise Children, both of which I really liked, even though I recall being frequently perplexed by them too. She certainly has a way with language.
I often wonder if her books (and those of other writers from her period and earlier) were considered difficult back when they were first published, or have readers just become more accustomed to more straight-forward writing.
It was a very different experience to the Bloody Chamber, much denser writing, I haven't read Wise Children though. I know that was her last book so it's probably as hard.
There was plenty of big-selling straight forward writing back then and i'm fairly sure there's lots of difficult stuff being made now, didn't Solar Bones just win a prize? I think you need to go back 50+ years before you start seeing real literary titans in the actual best-selling lists.
I got it ages ago and so far I've gotten through the prologue and about ten pages into the first chapter. It's good but it's not exactly a page turner.Speaking of difficult, has anyone copped a look at Alan Moore's new novel Jerusalem yet? Was looking at it in a bookshop last week. It's insanely long ... 1000+ pages of pretty densely packed text. And it looks really meandering and convoluted too. I've only a passing interest in Moore so not enough to commit to something like this but, like, Jesus .. some editing maybe?
What's the story with Solar Bones? One-line? Really?
that eejit Julian Gough described the genre as "funerals in the rain" which I thought was acually pretty funny and rings true. IIRC one of the stories in Young Skins is literally that.We live in a world of stories of modest narrators, frequently from rural Ireland with achingly real lives and it would be all too easy for Solar Bones to have disappeared into the cracks of that particular well-trodden road. Instead Mike McCormack takes his own sharp turn left onto a new, uncharted track and I, for one, am hugely glad he did
Cool. I've picked it up once or twice in a shop recently partly because my (and probably your) buddy Fiachra designed the cover. Must give it a go so.
that eejit Julian Gough described the genre as "funerals in the rain" which I thought was acually pretty funny and rings true. IIRC one of the stories in Young Skins is literally that.
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