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I read loads of books a week…..Chemists Weekly is a good one…..how to make your own tooth paste is a great recipe to make….
True indeed moosey…..the book is always the blue print for the film…..Take for instance if your into Fantasy Fiction……Shannara books by Terry Brooks…..(great poetry there if i may so) LMAO Awesome reading indeed…..
Then there’s the Prophet by Kahl Gibran for the philosophist……
Actually, that reminds me of the time 2 philosophist’s had a disagreement……it ended up in philosfisticuffing……..LMAO RATF
Dunno who won….i never stayed to the end of the book signing to find out……LMAO RATF
For the record, also expecting criticism of ‘popular novels ‘ yawn….
well, you’ll not get any from me.
But if you want to get into novels whihc aren’t pop, try Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, or Henry James, The Golden Bowl. If you dare.
Lol @ if you dare, typical, more assumptions. To everyone else…. I’ve read’The Magic Mountain’ I remember my Eng Lit tutor suggesting / insisting I did , mind it was many moons ago. Having said that it is regarded as a classic so most ‘readers’ will have either read it or know about it, obviously. I’m really enjoying George Saunders ‘Lincoln the Bardo’ loving it, not surprised at its acclaim. Its different but once you get in the mind frame it flows easy. The Lincoln theme is mere coincidence btw.
And yes I know what Bardo means ……..
I have no idea how well-read you are. I only know you from here, and you strike me as having a very nice side, but I’ve also come across a very touchy side, ready to strike quickly.
I have to make assumptions on here, and that means that people are going to see me as a snob and/or patronising. That’s not my fault – writing to people here is reaching out to the unknown. I’m not a snob, and I’m not patronising (unless I mean to hurt).
You seem to be very well-read, if you’re reading Lincoln the Bardo.
It’s supposed to be very moving, about the death of Lincoln’s son. I’ve read excellent reviews.
look at Sebastian Barry’s last three novels?
I actually started this thread to get away from your all encompassing monologues and maybe get a few suggestions from other chatters, yet here we are again…. with you telling me I’m touchy and ready to strike, although only you seem to think that. Its a thread about books, not me. I would have said ” Have you read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann ? ” not assumed that someone hadn’t, that be the difference between coming across as patronising or just making a suggestion.
”You seem to be very well-read, if you’re reading Lincoln the Bardo.”
Lol, yea well it won The Golden Man Booker Prize so I guess lots of people have read Lincoln In The Bardo, at halfway through its less about Lincolns son and more about the Bardo presently. I would say, moving, very funny, quite crude and very ‘different’.
A friend also suggested Sebastian Barry, Days without End,I think or similar, I may give one a go after this. Thankyou for your suggestion.
Some times moosey all you got is all you got……LMAO RATF PML
Mooosey starts a thread on book suggestions(!) in order to get away from my monologues..
yer, right.
yes ! exactly right actually. I stopped posting on the other threads. Or am I a liar too now ? Just please leave me be and stop talking to or about me please.
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I’ll talk about you or anyone else as I wish.
Just ignore the posts!
Or ask Hugs to contact the police, or Martin to ban me from jc.
Tsk.
The universities have been churning out people who are over-educated for the jobs they have, and their bitter status-consciousness is palpable.
I don’t follow Man Booker prize winners. I read about the Lincoln novel in the NYRB, where it received a very interesting review.
Barry’s Days Without End – a sort of Civil War Brokeback Mountain – also received an interesting review in the same paper. When I looked at it, it was as beautifully written as anything Barry writes, but I decided agin. I’m reading Pierre Michon atm.
And I’ll write where and what I like.
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