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Like this humdrum crap? [/FONT] As revolutionary prose goes, it's not exactly Woolf or Joyce, is it, boys and girls?

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I have Of Human Bondage in my TBR pile but I've already seconded a Woolf and I am a man of principle...

Well, since I nominated it, let me get the ball rolling by posting my thoughts from when I re-read it a month or two ago. I re-read The Man in the High Castle this weekend, having not a very strong memory of what it was about - indeed, one of the quotes on the back of my edition says "in Dick's...

Yeah I could go for some Woolf right about now. Haven't read anything of hers in years. To the Lighthouse or The Waves perhaps?

Me too! Why is that? Sorry for lowering the tone. Stewart started it.

As did I, which is why I finally plucked it off my shelves this week. I'm only on page 60 but already I'm glad I did. Mission accomplished, eh, protestors? Oh and now we all know there's a film to look forward to as well, thanks to you guys.

Yes, from what I've read around the subject - - and now in the book itself, this seems to be one of the lines which caused most controversy: This line is spoken by Chanu, Nazneen's husband, who is portrayed as a snob and a fool in the book. If the small number of Brick Lane residents and...

I've just begun reading Brick Lane, which has been sitting on my shelves since I bought it two years ago - finally prompted by all the publicity around the shooting of the film, with a small number of Brick Lane residents protesting against the portrayal of the Sylhetis in the book. I've only...

Up to a point. The problem is that everyone here agrees. The people who don't, who are the ones who would most benefit from seeing the film, are never going to, nor join a discussion like this.

Yes, the published-separately edition (with the orange and black silhouette cover) is 55 pages. That's the one I have. I didn't want to buy the whole collection Close Range because it was a movie tie-in edition. This sort of thing always makes me laugh. It reminds me of the Christina Ricci...

And we welcome your contributions, jaybe!

So you mean I did express myself clearly. Glad we've cleared that up. :rolleyes:

I agree that it was enjoyable and also that it could have been pared down a touch! I read it earlier this year. For some reason I had it in mind (perhaps because of the spooky woman-in-ethereal-white Penguin Classics cover) that it was a ghost story. But it wasn't. I also immediately...

30 books in 22 years! :eek:

Updike maybe? Or is that one every two years? Roth? I think there's a thread on this somewhere. Interestingly, I suppose Updike's books in a way are as formulaic as tinpot thrillers - the sex, the women, the religion, the microscopic detail - it's just that the writing is better.

To pursue this second digression: there are plenty of samples of Child's prose on his website. 'Nothing remarkable about the prose' pretty much sums it up, Stewart. Even his own website's synopsis of his first novel, Killing Floor, calls the narration "crude".

Not sure I can do that, NomadicMyth, since as you can tell from the above, I too get rather a lot of :confused: when I read Pavic, though there are always those moustachioed breasts (and the like) to make me :D from time to time. I think outright, straightforward understanding is a luxury we...

Chris, I am having to ask you for the third time to explain where I have been unable to express myself clearly. You have not done so yet. All you have done is cut and paste a selection of phrases from my posts, which presumably you understood well enough to apparently be able to take offence...

Yes, it's pronounced the same as Kryten from Red Dwarf (as he took his name from J.M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton, about a very obliging butler).