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Hehehe...you know the first draft contained a scene where they get chucked out at closing time and end up in a fight outside a kebab van?
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Hehehe...you know the first draft contained a scene where they get chucked out at closing time and end up in a fight outside a kebab van?
Hehehe...you know the first draft contained a scene where they get chucked out at closing time and end up in a fight outsight a kebab van?
Mysteries of Austerlitz solved. Thank you Mr Tea. It was all a bad dream after a dust up and a bad kebab. What of the missing final scene: narrator wakes up, feels very grim. Vows never again to drink so much/eat crap kebabs/hang out with Austerlitz - 'who never stops going on, and only ever bums him out'. Skips breakfast, manages a small lunch, suffers a bit more until mid-afternoon. Feels better. The End. (plenty of room for a sequel there if Sebald hadn't come to an untimely end)
Thats fucking hilarious. (Not to mention a turn of phrase I don't employ nearly enough in my daily round)
Back to the book club: I will have a go at the chosen title, though, must confess, Mao ll would have been my stand out choice. Thank god it wasn't the Brothers Karamzov.
you
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Heya guys, Im still checking this thread and would be up for reading a book with you. I've recently started Brothers Karamazov though, but seeing as thats the only story im on at the mo I could do another too!
Any thoughts on a book? Im guessing Idlerich wont be thrilled at the 2nd Regeneration book...
Any thoughts on a book? Im guessing Idlerich wont be thrilled at the 2nd Regeneration book...
crackerjack
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Oh sorry - I seem to be one of the guilty parties, only just noticed this thread has been revived. Currently have three on the go and I'm determined to read Ackroyd's London Biography sometime soon so I may be unavailable for book club for a couple of months.
IdleRich
IdleRich
OK, so that's You, me, Jenks, Mr Tea and maybe Lichen. That's a start.
Apart from that I'm pretty happy to read almost anything. I'm just about to start with Blow-Up and other stories by Julio Cortazar but the book club one I will read concurrently.
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You guessed right. If everyone is dead set on reading it then I would go ahead - but seeing as that would restrict it to people who have read the first one I don't think it's a good idea (what a shame).
Apart from that I'm pretty happy to read almost anything. I'm just about to start with Blow-Up and other stories by Julio Cortazar but the book club one I will read concurrently.
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you
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Mmmmm, a short storys collections could be ultra accessible, a guy ive been meaning to explore is Craig Davidson, I was pretty engrossed in his short storys in a small picador shorts book.... as well as the publication in the below link he also has a shorts collection called "Rust and Bone"
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I also wouldnt mind reading Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" but I guess most have already read it?
Or, "Requiem for a Dream" by Hubert Selby Jr, or "willow tree" or "waiting period"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Selby_Jr.
Just throwing some ideas around
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I also wouldnt mind reading Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" but I guess most have already read it?
Or, "Requiem for a Dream" by Hubert Selby Jr, or "willow tree" or "waiting period"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Selby_Jr.
Just throwing some ideas around
IdleRich
IdleRich
That Magical Year sounds a bit depressing.... I've got Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth sitting by my bed - it would make it easy for me if we did that one, anyone fancy it?
"Barth's next book, Giles Goat-Boy, of comparable size, was a speculative fiction based on the conceit of the university as universe. It could be described as a fictional gospel about a half-man half-goat who discovers his humanity and becomes a savior in a university that allegorically represents the universe, presented as a computer tape given to John Barth, who denies that it is his work. In the course of the book, Giles carries out all the tasks prescribed by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Barth kept a list of the tasks taped to his wall while he was writing the book."
"Barth's next book, Giles Goat-Boy, of comparable size, was a speculative fiction based on the conceit of the university as universe. It could be described as a fictional gospel about a half-man half-goat who discovers his humanity and becomes a savior in a university that allegorically represents the universe, presented as a computer tape given to John Barth, who denies that it is his work. In the course of the book, Giles carries out all the tasks prescribed by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Barth kept a list of the tasks taped to his wall while he was writing the book."