OK, so is this the list so far?
Tea: CJ Stone, Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
Wanda: Nicole Brossard's 'Mauve Desert'
You: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Luka: Some unspecified cleverer book
Im going to nominate Pavane by Keith Roberts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12508513-pavane
OK, so is this the list so far?
Tea: CJ Stone, Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
Wanda: Zoe Whittall's 'The Best Kind of People'
You: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Luka: Some unspecified cleverer book
Im going to nominate Pavane by Keith Roberts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12508513-pavane
OK, so is this the list so far?
Tea: CJ Stone, Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
Wanda: Zoe Whittall's 'The Best Kind of People'
You: Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Luka: Some unspecified cleverer book
Im going to nominate Pavane by Keith Roberts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12508513-pavane
Huh. These all seems to be written by dudes, bro.
1. Tea: CJ Stone, Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground
Tea - that Fierce Dancing looks great! Would fit in with some of my research... and that cover. Damn.
lol. Theres some real signs of desperation on display here Luka.
Are you OK?
lol. Tell us, how long have you been reading finnegans wake for again?
Leaving aside point scoring this gets to the nub of what I look for in a book or an ouvere.... I like books that take years to read, and a lifetime to begin to understand. That's what I look for. Books that become part of my life. Books that are so dense with information that every rereading of every page reveals new meaning. That's the sort of book I'd be inclined to campaign for and the sort of reading I'd want to prod dissensus towards.
Have you read any Flann O'Brien? He's better than James Joyce and funny too. I'm currently reading At Swim-Two-Birds. It's supposedly his best, but I much prefer The Third Policeman. You shouldn't be wasting years of your time on the tedious Joyce.
HMG, have you read his other novels? I remember really enjoying The Poor Mouth and The Hard Life. The Dalkey Archive is good too, perhaps a bit inconsequential and self-indulgent in places, but it features Joyce as a character, which is nice. It also features de Selby, from the footnotes in T3PM.
Leaving aside point scoring this gets to the nub of what I look for in a book or an ouvere.... I like books that take years to read, and a lifetime to begin to understand. That's what I look for. Books that become part of my life. Books that are so dense with information that every rereading of every page reveals new meaning. That's the sort of book I'd be inclined to campaign for and the sort of reading I'd want to prod dissensus towards.