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 Oct 7 2006, 10:55 AM
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Don't Call The Dustman  Group: Senior Members Posts: 1,595 Joined: 1-February 05 From: Bat country Member No.: 3,316  |
The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. It's typical Auster - full of coincidences and lost souls. The best thing he's written since Leviathan.
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Oct 7 2006, 06:35 PM
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No more smiling. Group: Senior Members Posts: 8,025 Joined: 25-October 05 From: Good ole Germaniah Member No.: 4,601 |
I'm halfway through Lunar Park and it really creeps me out. I love it. And I've never seen, how you can make something as small as some vodka make into something so sad with so little words.
Afterwards I won't get straight to Camus, but reading Sartre's "La nausée" first. |
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Oct 9 2006, 01:55 PM
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OMNOMNOM Group: Senior Moderators Posts: 19,622 Joined: 3-January 05 From: NYC Member No.: 3,076 |
QUOTE (Stella MM @ Oct 7 2006, 07:59 AM) I'm probably the last person in the country to do so, but I've literally just finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife. I thought it was beautiful and skilfully written. I haven't read characters as touchingly and truthfully written as Henry, Clare and Gomez for a long time, probably not since Donna Tartt's The Secret History. I'm slightly embarrassed by how much I cried at the end, though.  I cried a lot at the end of it as well. Like you say, such honestly written characters and a beautiful story that didn't get confusing despite all the jumping around. |
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Oct 9 2006, 02:04 PM
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No more smiling. Group: Senior Members Posts: 8,025 Joined: 25-October 05 From: Good ole Germaniah Member No.: 4,601 |
I've some more of Lunar Park and it is the first novel since The Shining (which I read about ten years ago) that honestly frightens me. I think, I have some serious fatherhood problems. I should put the book in the freezer.
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Oct 9 2006, 02:36 PM
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I'm Daisy - "writer." Group: Senior Members Posts: 1,069 Joined: 15-July 05 From: West of the Oz. Member No.: 4,220 |
48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls.
It's a movie here now so novel first+movie viewing=comparison. |
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Oct 9 2006, 03:17 PM
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Fallon Group: Senior Members Posts: 10,262 Joined: 17-December 04 From: The Scary-Go-Round Member No.: 2,946 |
QUOTE (widowspider @ Oct 9 2006, 02:55 PM) I cried a lot at the end of it as well. Like you say, such honestly written characters and a beautiful story that didn't get confusing despite all the jumping around. Well, I'm still only half way through, so I've got all that crying (or wondering why I'm so cold-hearted that these things don't make me cry) ahead of me. |
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Oct 9 2006, 03:46 PM
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Hot Lips. Group: Senior Members Posts: 9,204 Joined: 6-February 05 From: Toronto Member No.: 3,352 |
QUOTE (Stella MM @ Oct 7 2006, 02:59 AM) I'm probably the last person in the country to do so, but I've literally just finished reading The Time Traveller's Wife. I thought it was beautiful and skilfully written. I haven't read characters as touchingly and truthfully written as Henry, Clare and Gomez for a long time, probably not since Donna Tartt's The Secret History. I'm slightly embarrassed by how much I cried at the end, though. Shit, I've just started it. It's not going to make me too sad, is it? |
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Oct 9 2006, 03:50 PM
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Cursing. Ladies. Dancing. And pleasure. Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,594 Joined: 1-October 04 From: The twin worlds of sodomy and knitting Member No.: 2,284 |
Let me put it this way. If you didn't bawl at the final scene of the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark, you'll be all right.
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Oct 9 2006, 03:55 PM
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Hot Lips. Group: Senior Members Posts: 9,204 Joined: 6-February 05 From: Toronto Member No.: 3,352 |
QUOTE (Stella MM @ Oct 9 2006, 11:50 AM) Let me put it this way. If you didn't bawl at the final scene of the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark, you'll be all right. What if I don't bawl ever? |
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Oct 9 2006, 04:01 PM
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Cursing. Ladies. Dancing. And pleasure. Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,594 Joined: 1-October 04 From: The twin worlds of sodomy and knitting Member No.: 2,284 |
You'll probably still cry like a little bitch with a skinned knee.
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Oct 9 2006, 04:29 PM
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Learning to walk again Group: Senior Members Posts: 5,537 Joined: 24-February 06 From: Where everybody knows your name Member No.: 4,956 |
I've started reading The Turning by Paul J. Newell after it arrived, mysteriously, for me in the post last week following a few emails exchanged between the two of us. Very intriguing so far.
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Oct 9 2006, 06:41 PM
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Bully for you Group: Senior Members Posts: 20,419 Joined: 25-February 05 From: behind a desk, sitting very still Member No.: 3,498 |
QUOTE (Stella MM @ Oct 9 2006, 04:50 PM) Let me put it this way. If you didn't bawl at the final scene of the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark, you'll be all right. When I get around to reading this (it's the next book on my list after ''The Wind-up Bird Chronicle'') I'm sure to get all teary then. Damn. This post has been edited by maian: Oct 9 2006, 06:41 PM |
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Oct 10 2006, 10:41 PM
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Sunshine on Putty.
It's shit. |
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Oct 11 2006, 01:26 PM
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OMNOMNOM Group: Senior Moderators Posts: 19,622 Joined: 3-January 05 From: NYC Member No.: 3,076 |
As I'd never read it and Stells compared the blubberiness in it to that of The Time Traveller's Wife, I'm reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt. So far, so interesting.
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Oct 11 2006, 03:49 PM
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Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it? Group: Senior Members Posts: 7,210 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Schrute Farms, Scranton, PA Member No.: 2,924 |
Finished reading "Yes Man" last week, and so decided to start "Are You Dave Gorman?" by Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace. So far, it's been very enjoyable.
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