Benny Bunter
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wicked. cheers faustus
slaughterhouse 5 - kurt vonnegut
enjoying it so far, 'bout halfway. nice use of nonlinear narrative. will have to seek out more by this guy when i'm finished.
"so it goes"
Actually, gonna revise my opinion upwards on this. The further in I get the more it kind of coalesces - from the diverse footnotes and half-mentions of things that later turn out to be important - into something a lot more focussed than it originally seemed. It reminds me in that sense of The Sound And The Fury - I really like the way that a part in the middle of a three page footnote listing the hilariously named films of an "apres-garde" director can actually turn out to have a bearing on things much later on in the book. I also like the way that the footnotes disorient you by changing from dry objective notes to those preceded by "presumably" or other examples of guesswork from the author."Just started (well a couple of hundred pages in) to Infinite Jest which I'm enjoying a lot. So far very readable, very funny etc although possibly not quite the transcendental experience I was expecting from all the recommendations - though maybe that's the problem, anything that's built up too much can suffer I think. Anyway, it's relatively early days yet and the fact that I've laughed out loud a few times and felt compelled to read passages aloud to my girlfriend must be a good sign."
Actually, gonna revise my opinion upwards on this...
I've been trying to get my hands on The Atlas for years, but it's very elusive.
sydney is home to many a plaited rats tail and even the exotic and rare side rats tail which comes off the side of the head instead of th back.
The Third Policeman, Flan O'Brien. Pretty good so far, a lot more surreal than I thought it would be. Haven't read enough to say much more, seems promising though.
Ha, saw a guy with one of these on the tube the other day...was Spanish by the sound of it.
The Spanish love a rat's tail. Often quite cool, attractive Spanish girls will rock one. Does my head in.