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Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer
You into it? I read Capricorn earlier in the year and found it a bit of a slog.
Yeah, I remember being gobsmacked by his attitudes in that book. Just amazed. Although I also remember my girlfriend at the time was living in Mexico when I read it and she said something along the lines of "Yeah that book says some terrible racist stuff about Mexicans... the worst thing is he is spot on".dhl's the plumed serpent. if you get in a flap about
hearts of darkness being racist never open this book. you'd (rightly) never get away
with it now.
Yeah, I remember being gobsmacked by his attitudes in that book. Just amazed. Although I also remember my girlfriend at the time was living in Mexico when I read it and she said something along the lines of "Yeah that book says some terrible racist stuff about Mexicans... the worst thing is he is spot on".
Sounds really interesting, does it live up to the description?Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O'Neill - ostensibly a series of biographical sketches of twentieth century Australian writers but in fact a huge po-mo joke. all the writers are fictional and each of the lives intersect creating a grand narrative of duplicity and venality. Even the index is part of the joke.
Jenks - I just started reading Their Brilliant Careers as you made it sound interesting. The first chapter seems to be a pisstake of (the author of) those Gor books. I never read any of them but I remember often seeing shelves full of them in bookshops when I was little and thinking "What the fuck are they?" and "Why are they so many of them?". I'm actually kinda intrigued to read some of them now...
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But what about Gor? Have you read them? OK, not you maybe, but someone...I think by the time you finish there wont be a literary genre he hasn't ripped the piss out of - it's very clever but not in a self regarding way. I really cannot understand why it hasn't been more widely praised. There is a very funny sting in its tail as well.