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On looking at your PM again, Castroz, I see that my English translation has two full paragraphs in between the previous and next sentences that you quoted, so here is the next paragraph too!

Castroz: I've found the piece from the information in your PM. Here is Weaver's take on it, together with the ends of the paragraphs above and below, so you can check if I've found the right part: I must admit this doesn't sound much like the passage you quoted. Perhaps the difficulty is...

I just bought my first Anne Tyler today, The Accidental Tourist. I keep coming up against her name with people saying how good she is, so I thought it was about time I found out. Obviously this has intensified lately with the release of Digging to America, so critical mass was reached for me...

I have William Weaver's English translation of this book, Castroz. But the story is 30 pages long and I don't have time to read through it right now... Can you say approximately where in the story this section appears? Start, middle, end? And is it the beginning of a paragraph, middle, or...

Firefox, 1024 x 768 - everything looks OK to me...

I think the new look is fine.

All good ones so far. I have no idea who this song is by but I remember seeing it on Give Us A Clue years and years ago (ropey old British TV show where camp has-been celebs had to act out movie/book/song titles etc, ie charades on telly) "How Can You Believe Me When I Say That I Love You...

Mehastings did merge the two P.G. Wodehouse threads which sprang up simultaneously. But yes, I too would like to see more of this, particularly merging duplicate threads (Marquez is another one). Just my mania for neatness I suppose. :rolleyes:

Perhaps it's not so much differences in style, as they tend to have distinct eccentricities which, in each case, you will either love or hate. For example, Hey Nostradamus! has a dead narrator (among others). In Girlfriend in a Coma, the world ends (that's not a spoiler, it tells you so on...

I've read about half of Coupland's output. There's a difficulty in making recommendations because it's all so very different. For example the early stuff (up to Microserfs) which is quite quippy and full of neat one-liners, I don't like as much - which is to say that I loved the first half of...

Kenny's your man here, abecedarian, but my limited knowledge suggests that Growth of the Soil is the novel which led to Hamsun's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Odd then that it's not more well known, while Hunger remains his only novel published by a mainstream press in the UK...

I picked up this book in Waterstone's at the weekend ... and then put it down again. Some of the stories sound interesting, though, particularly The Writer's Craft. Maybe one for next time I can't think of anything else to buy...

Thanks mehastings! I'm thinking about getting a new camera so I can do super closeup (macro) shots, but I'm delighted you like what I've done so far. I know what you mean about the coffee beans in the Whole Foods Market ... barrel after barrel of them, all shiny and lovely. I'm a coffee...

Hey, I thought I'd hidden all the pics of me! :o EDIT: oops, I see I did leave a couple up...

No, but then I wouldn't read it even though I'm not religious.

Interesting, Kenny, that you say Hamsun's books got lighter as he got older. For some reason - knowing almost nothing of his work - I associate Hamsun with such 20th C miserablists as Kafka and Beckett, who just got grimmer and grimmer. Kurt Vonnegut made this point too, in his recent Man...

Dur, of course! It's not narrated by him, but the story is told largely from his viewpoint.

I don't think it's that important for readers to empathize with the narrator. As long as they're interested in him, all should be well. But while we're here, what about Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory for a multiple-killer narrator who's pretty sympathetic? Or Patrick McGrath's Spider?

Yes, there's an existing thread about Marquez here. And Stew, jaybe is being satirical, just like in the Room 101 Pet Hates thread. At least I think he is. :eek:

Thanks for the review, SFG. Sinclair Lewis is one of those writers I've heard of but don't really know anything about. In fact I think I usually confuse him with Wyndham Lewis. Who I also don't know anything about. Not a very enlightening contribution, I'm afraid, but at least your post has...