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I've read Libra, which I found hugely impressive and almost as bewildering - though, as JFK assassination conspiracies go, a damn sight easier to follow than Ellroy's American Tabloid - but nothing else until now (if we don't count the first fifty pages of Underworld: everyone's read those...)...

Douglas Coupland interviews Morrissey in next week's Observer Music Monthly. Should be interesting.

I dunno steffee, if there was a part about other Hailsham students trying to escape then I missed it too! Maybe it was too understated for me to notice... When I first read Never Let Me Go last year I gave it four-and-a-half stars in my notional internal five-star scale. Rereading it this...

novella (...where are you? Bring back the cryptic clues!)

Agree that Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is probably Adams's best novel. May I also put in a good word for Last Chance to See..., his travel/natural world book?

Are you sure you mean the same thing by 'precipitate' that I do?

Thanks Robert. A lot of popular writers have the accusation levelled at them (no doubt accurately in many cases), as you suggest here, that the book reads like a first draft for the Hollywood script. But if Reilly is writing with this aim in mind, has it worked, ie have any of his books...

Actually I see Robert's reading it at the minute. Maybe he can enlighten us on which reviews to believe.

Go ahead and do it then, instead of talking about it. We'll see you in the Arts pages of the papers. Possibly. As for The Bay, it looks rather beautiful to me (from what I can see of it in that little jpg on the BBC page). The price tag of $1.5m is really neither here nor there. A piece...

It's a bit irritating with all the cutesy names, though I quite liked the Gladsummer/Sadglummer thing.

Addendum: Actually - I couldn't resist trying it - googling for the phrase brings up precisely 0 results: [/LIST]

You mean it's worse - I mean better - I mean ... Reillier - than Scarecrow? :eek:

I hardly know where to begin! Ellie, if you really are a good friend of James Littlewood and not James Littlewood himself, then shouldn't you by now have had a word in his ear about how such promotional tactics on book forums will just make people hate him? No, I tried that but there are...

No. A satirical look at a disturbed mind so exaggeratedly a product of 'the me decade' that he fantasises all sorts of perverted gratification - sartorial, sexual/violent, MOR music-oriented - rather than face up to his own slow death of the soul.

I agree steffee and pink shadow that the whole point was that the characters didn't want to escape as they were conditioned to accept their lot - I remember hearing critics comment last year when the book came out that "they should have run away"! Sadly that way lies Michael Bay's The Island...

I think - though I'm open to correction - the theory is that anyone reading this forum is presumed to have read the book, and/or not to mind seeing spoilers. Particularly with a book like this, where much is revealed over the course of reading, I think if we were to use spoiler tags for...

I'm currently rereading Never Let Me Go and I posted about it on the Ishiguro thread, forgetting it was also this month's book group choice and could have been more profitably commented on here. Sorry.

Glad my evangelism worked, steffee! For what it's worth I'm halfway through a reread of Never Let Me Go and I'm finding it more troublesome and somewhere on that fine line between difficult and dissatisfying than I did last time. It may yet come together though. I keep asking myself 'What is...

I dunno. I suppose individual cases vary (as the psychiatrists say), but I would tend to give someone exhibiting that sort of behaviour the benefit of the doubt and guess they just wanted to share in what I like... As for 'How Many Books Have You Read' threads, yes, these tend to be...

I agree. TBF doesn't have as much traffic as it used to but it's still one of the busiest boards I know.