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I bought this in 1999 but have only just got round to starting it. I used to read masses of modern fiction up till about 5 years ago but hardly read anything at all at the moment - spend too much time on r3ok I expect  I'm enjoying this though it's not exactly a relaxing read.  |
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I think Enduring Love is the point at which McEwan's writing takes a turn for the worse, and it's all been downhill since then, with the exception maybe of Atonement. Reading Saturday made me want to smack its author in the mouf. I am reading this  and not enjoying it much, but I'm staying at a friend's house and there isn't much choice in terms of books I haven't previously read. |
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« Reply #407 on: 11:02:14, 18-08-2008 » |
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I think Enduring Love is the point at which McEwan's writing takes a turn for the worse I agree, although I think that point is after Enduring Love which to me is a very well-put-together narrative, and a terrifying case study of the mental condition it explores (de Clerambault's syndrome). |
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« Reply #408 on: 12:39:13, 18-08-2008 » |
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Reading Saturday made me want to smack its author in the mouf.
I didn't finish Saturday. I threw it aside (literally) in irritation. I'm close to doing the same thing with Sebastian Faulks latest, Engleby. I find the 'voice' of the main character so annoying that it's distracting me from what's meant to be happening, If anything. Another one for the charity shop. . |
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« Reply #409 on: 13:19:51, 18-08-2008 » |
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Well I've just had a very nice easy read this weekend. A friend sent me a book called "Woman's World" - a genius construction by a guy with too much time on his hands. It's entirely cut and pasted from women's magazines from the 1960s. http://www.grahamrawle.com/books_womans/womansworld01.html I thought the appearance of it would be distracting but after a few lines it wasn't at all, and the fact that it was all made from magazine extracts was hilarious - he includes great big chunks of text and just pastes over the odd word or phrase to suberb comic effect. This evening I shall be constructing a thank you card to my friend in the same manner, using Heat magazine (I'm well aware that cutting it up is really the only positive use for Heat magazine).  |
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« Reply #410 on: 13:22:25, 18-08-2008 » |
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Rawle is a kind of comics genius, certainly. I hadn't seen that one, Ruby. Straight onto the list.  |
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« Reply #411 on: 17:43:37, 18-08-2008 » |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #412 on: 23:40:21, 18-08-2008 » |
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I suppose Hypnotically Readable refers to the effect the nutty stalker has on his victim! Quite enjoyed (if thats right word) this novel but wonder if its an accurate case study of someone with this syndrome - quite enjoyed the film too!
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« Reply #413 on: 23:41:58, 18-08-2008 » |
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I enjoyed it the first time I read it, but the second time I read it I got a bit freaked out. It was a little too close to something that was happening in my life at the time.
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I enjoyed it the first time I read it, but the second time I read it I got a bit freaked out. It was a little too close to something that was happening in my life at the time.
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« Reply #415 on: 08:44:33, 19-08-2008 » |
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I enjoyed it the first time I read it, but the second time I read it I got a bit freaked out. It was a little too close to something that was happening in my life at the time.
That's funny, I know at least one other person who claims to have been disturbed by that novel on account of its closeness to something he'd experienced himself. I hasten to add that the situation was nowhere near as severe and it resolved itself without any more fuss, but the book alerted me (or made me paranoid) to the extent to which things could have gone. |
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« Reply #416 on: 20:52:49, 20-08-2008 » |
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Yesterday i read some of a biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler. Most interesting.
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #417 on: 12:50:25, 21-08-2008 » |
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Britten's Children by John Bridcut. It's very good, I felt I was being carried along.
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #418 on: 13:00:31, 21-08-2008 » |
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It's very good, I felt I was being carried along.
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« Reply #419 on: 09:39:43, 22-08-2008 » |
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Current reads: ALL SOULS by Javier Marias, THE CEREMONIES by T.E.D. Klein and THE DAY LASTS MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS by Chingiz Aitmatov.
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