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I bought "yellow dog" the other day, and it's a very good book indeed. It's kind of, uh... well, "loose" would be the best way that i could describe it, at least in the plotting, but it's strange how the ideas raised throughout the book kind of "bounce off" each other and start of new avenues of thought. I dunno. Anyway, i'll stop wanking around shall i? Have you people read any of the guy's stuff? And if so, would you care to recommend any other novels of his / other authors that i may enjoy? |
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time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. |
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I'll take that as a recommendation for "london fields", then. |
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"London Fields" I'd say: Loved it. "Dead Babies" I'd say, liked it. "Time's Arrow" I'd say: Good idea. "The Moronic Inferno" I'd say: Articles "Money" I'd say "Fucking, yes" "Other people" I'd go "Hmmm" "The Information" I'd say "Now THAT was what I'd call a novel" The Rachel Paper's, I'd say: Good first novel. I really like his books, for me he says "London" in a way that I can say, "I know what you mean". Specially "Dog shit park" in, I think, The Information. |
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!!!!! Thank you muchly, that's a grand and very concise set of reviews. I believe london fields will be my next purchase from the soulless shelves of waterstones. I can almost hear the piped-in "soft jazz". |
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I don't know wether it's fashionable, or so unfashionable, or what to diss The Amis, but I loved "London Fields", I know it's been a whilse since it appeared, but it's got some great imagery, that mixes the everyday with the epic, which is my favourite thing. I'm by no means a literary critic and I can't claim to have grapsed a franction of it, I just know it has just a highly evocative atmosphere that mixes high and low culture like some carless literary juggler. I really liked The Information and Money for the similar "feel". |
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ba... ba... ba... da-bu-da-bu-dab, da-bu-da-bu-dab ba ba ba da-bu-da-bu-dab, da-bu-da-bu-dab |
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(phonetic soft jazz) |
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Careless, not carless. How carless of me. |
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Yes! That's a nice way of putting it. It certainly applies to "yellow dog". Kind of like a strange blend of subtle philosophical musings mixed with a generous helping of squalid semi-filth. Rather excellent whatever way you look at it. |
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