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The GOT Book Club
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MacAttack1878
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Have an old worn yellow Reclam copy of this one. Good reminder to reread it
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wow. you speak German then, lucky fella
Yup. Did my Masters in Comp Lit with a focus on German. Spent a year over there as part of my programwow. you speak German then, lucky fella
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Reading The Book of Disquiet from Pessoa. I was too late.
Daz1878
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I finally finished Infinite Jest, so I think it's worth posting something in here... I started it last year, then took it on summer holiday and didn't read another page of it for months (this was about 25% in). Picked it up again during lockdown and have been inching my way through it. I did really enjoy it, although I think it's sometimes too easy to give a rave review to anything with so many pages, given the investment required. But there was so much to like about it, and about a third of the way from the end I twigged that there were so many characters we'd never hear from again. I think the only bit that really dragged was the lengthy description of the game (Eschaton?) the ETA kids played. But I loved the style, and some of the book is laugh-out-loud funny, some bits pretty horrific, but it's a bit of a one-off, just like its author. On to The Pale King now (not really - time for a break from DFW, as Houellebecq's Serotonin is next on the out-of-control pile).
Black Belt Jones
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The Pale King is exceptional but pretty hard as you might expect, not joined up too well given the circumstances so reads more like a series of short stories - fun to try and discern what his overall story would have been. Felt heavier than IJ, which is pretty funny and fast in parts like you say, with some dense stretches about transcending boredom. Has some intense writing though - if you like that pyrotechnical style then DFW could absolutely go to town with the pen like few others.
Daz1878
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I will definitely get round to The Pale King, probably sooner than later, although part of me is well aware that once I get through all of DFW's work, well, sadly that's it, and there should have been so much more to come from him. I think IJ one book that definitely benefits from a "wraparound" read, or at least reading the opening stretches again, given that it ties up so much about what happens in the book's later stages - but of course you don't realise that when you first start the book, and have pretty much forgotten 1000+ pages later. It's good fun reading around the book, and there are some interesting sites devoted to its analysis.
Read this on the recommendation of GOT - Gone in the Dark.
Posthumous book based on the deceased authors investigation into the Golden State Serial Killer in California 1970’s / 1980’s.
Struggled with it a bit tbh, as it was quite dry. There was nothing wrong with it, it’s just that I’ve read more engaging books of a similar genre.
Not really a football book, more how not to run an organisation. Crazy goings on that bought Irish football to it's knees. Think, a company which has no control over incoming or outgoing finances..
About half way through this at the moment. I’m a massive Bryson fan, so any review I give is inherently biased
Interesting and funny in equal measures, well recommended!
Just read this one last month. Really enjoyed it. He’s a blue as well
About half way through this at the moment. I’m a massive Bryson fan, so any review I give is inherently biased
Interesting and funny in equal measures, well recommended!