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    jenks reacted to sus's post in the thread Read Serious Poetry with me & Corpsey with Like Like.
    One of the great formalists in 20th C poetics IMO, extending Beckett
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    jenks reacted to william_kent's post in the thread what are you reading now? with Like Like.
    I ended up buying a copy a few minutes ago based on @jenks' post and the publisher's description it took the bookshop staff a while...
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    I’ve just been given a copy of this. https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/the-ways-of-paradise/ I am a sucker for these kind of things...
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    jenks reacted to IdleRich's post in the thread The Prose Stylist with Like Like.
    John M Harrison as I've said before. Never read a really good book by him but the bits where he decided to really turn it on and just...
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    jenks reacted to version's post in the thread The Cantos with Love Love.
    Canto III I sat on the Dogana’s steps For the gondolas cost too much, that year, And there were not “those girls”, there was one face...
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    He’s one of my favourites- I think he’ll be another Fitzcarraldo Nobels. Zone is a remarkable piece of fiction. I don’t think there is...
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    jenks reacted to IdleRich's post in the thread what are you reading now? with Like Like.
    I just nipped into town to go to the bookshop, it's mad that such a small place has a trove like this. That's probably...
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    Never been a problem. They’re all quite different and suit different situations like train travel v lolling on a bed or waiting in a...
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    Just off for a night away - didn’t know what to pack for reading so grabbed these 4 from my tbr pile. Started them all and all are very...
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    jenks replied to the thread what are you reading now?.
    I’ve been reading some of the non fiction. The thing on his dad’s death is very good. Moving.
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    jenks reacted to Benny Bunter's post in the thread shakespeare with Like Like.
    They loved a bit of the old ultraviolence the Elizabethans didn't they? Still, this is about as extreme as it gets. Not sure how you'd...
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    jenks reacted to Benny Bunter's post in the thread shakespeare with Like Like.
    Dunno, I think there are good "bad" bits and just plain bad "bad" bits.
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    jenks replied to the thread shakespeare.
    As the classicists say “even Homer nods.”
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    jenks reacted to Corpsey's post in the thread shakespeare with Like Like.
    Shakespeare and dickens--creaky plots, shameless showmanship, immortal characters, linguistic wizardry
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    jenks replied to the thread shakespeare.
    I think that’s what matters to him. Occasionally modern productions do a kind of double take as if to say ‘I dunno why he put this bit...
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