what are you reading now?

[Corpsey]

He was a great interviewee.

Exactly, keep the interviews burn the novels teehee

 

[luka]

basically just the same book

 

[Corpsey]

I've been reading "A tale of #twocities"

 

[shiels]

The focus of a Ballard novel is mood, landscape and the mapping of an isolated mental terrain.

yeah perfect, couldnt say it better

 

[version]

He's a bit like DeLillo in that respect.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Or Bukowski or Fante. Read one you've read them all. Not necessarily a bad thing

 

[Corpsey]

yeah perfect, couldnt say it better

He got it out of a book

 

[Corpsey]

Now I come to think of it I've never read a Ballard book other than high rise which I can't remember

 

[luka]

Now I come to think of it I've never read a Ballard book other than high rise which I can't remember

its about living in a high rise

 

[version]

High-Rise is the best of the four I've read.

 

[Corpsey]

I remember him eating a dog

And being too scared to leave the car park

 

[Corpsey]

High Rise

I've not read High Rise since university, but I stuck on the widely (it seems to me, when I was paying attention to it, justifiably) panned film adaptation of it the other day and it got me thinking about revisiting the book. The thing is, when I read it at uni I was – despite exhibiting marked...

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[version]

I remember him eating a dog

That's the first sentence.

 

[Benny Bunter]

which translation? Chapman or Pope?

When I get round to it I'm gonna go for the chapman I reckon, Pound convinced me with a few little extracts comparing them and it looks miles better than the pope, looser, longer lines. I'm not really interested in reading a prose version of it.

 

[version]

I remember eating a dog

And being too scared to leave the car park

Corpsey on his memories of lockdown.

 

[version]

When I get round to it I'm gonna go for the chapman I reckon, Pound convinced me with a few little extracts comparing them and it looks miles better than the pope, looser, longer lines. I'm not really interested in reading a prose version of it.

I read most of the E. V. Rieu translation and it was pretty dull.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I read most of the E. V. Rieu translation and it was pretty dull.

Yeah I think that's the one I tried reading years ago but I didn't get very far. Might as well read the Wikipedia plot summary

 

[Corpsey]

I found the Odyssey dull, too.

It would be probably be worth reading if Robert Louis Stevenson or Dickens had written it.

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[Corpsey]

Was reading an interesting ting about the Odyssey today as it happens, Auerbach comparing it to the old testament, Homer insists on filling you in on every single detail about Odysseus's scar, the old tezza compresses the story of Abraham down to the bare essentials,etc

 

[version]

Yeah I think that's the one I tried reading years ago but I didn't get very far. Might as well read the Wikipedia plot summary

Some of it had this comical Englishness to it. The giants coming over to see what was going on when the cyclops was screaming about being blinded all talking like "I say, what's all this noise about?".