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The GOT Book Club
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Will do.
Black Belt Jones
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I've had Stoner lined up on the shelf for a while, the missus rates it as unusually good. Could pick it up now but I finished Proust vol2 on holiday last month and it's taxed my head. It was a bit of a project, so want to fire through a couple of fantasy novels for the time being. Hope to get to Stoner before Christmas.
Gwlacticos
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Just starting Two Brothers by Ben Elton, about brothers who end up fighting for different sides in WWII. First impressions are good.
Just got through this one again. Watched the first two movies again. Love it.
I picked up an anthology of James Bond books and was reminded they were written in the 50s and 60s as soon as I read the first 2 pages.
The one about the cruise ship (A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again) is good, shows his lighter/funnier side.
Do you like bill burroughs?
Black Belt Jones
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Not read Burroughs for a long time leslad. Read the naked lunch as a student like everyone else - it's basically the rules. Also Cities of the Red Night. Thought they were mind-blowing at the time - seriously never seen writing like it, but I think that was largely being overwhelmed by all the craziness and unusual structure on the surface. I don't know if there are real books living underneath all of that.
Some man, like - talk about a life fully lived.
http://flavorwire.com/148558/97-things-you-didnt-know-about-william-s-burroughs/10
DownOnTheUpside
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DownOnTheUpside
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Won't be reading anything nonfiction for a while til i finish these
The book is brilliant. I loved the first two films- probably because they stuck closely to the book.
Just got through this one again. Watched the first two movies again. Love it.
I've just come across this from The Guardian: I am so going to order this book.
Not suitable for kids: the deliciously creepy ghost stories of E Nesbit
The author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It was familiar with the darker aspects of life, which she wrote about in some decidedly adult stories
‘She knew all about anger and sexual jealousy’ … E Nesbit. Photograph: Getty Image
Naomi Alderman
Saturday 24 September 2016 13.00 BST
Those of us who grew up with E Nesbit’s wonderful novels for children – The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet – may be surprised to learn that she wrote ghost stories for adults. And it might be even more surprising to encounter some of the grim underpinnings of these delicious fireside tales. Lurking in the background are dead children, thwarted love, jealousy, vengeance and the sense that even the best kind of love – the famous love that never falters, the love that pays the price – has something dark lurking within it
“This is not an artistically rounded-off ghost story,” says the narrator of “The Shadow”, “and nothing is explained in it, and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened.” Which of course begs the reader to ask what the explanation for the story is, and why any of it should have happened. There is a young couple, very much in love, expecting their first baby. And there is Miss Eastwich, a woman so silent that the children she looks after later in life never think of treating her as “other than a machine”. She tells her story of the shadow that crept into the house of her two friends, whom she had “loved more than anything in the world” and who had married each other. The narrator understands, as does the reader, that Miss Eastwich had trusted her best friend Mabel – one half of that connubial bliss – not to take the man she loved, but Mabel had taken him anyway. And then what happens? Well, there’s “a shadow”. Is Miss Eastwich the shadow? Is she the one responsible for all that happens in the house?
There is darkness in the corners of these stories, like that gathering shadow – ordinary callousness turning into something more disturbing. “There’ll be more wedding tomorrow than ever you’ll take the first part in,” snarls the narrator of “John Charrington’s Wedding” to his spinster sister – a man so consumed with jealousy that he sneaks around eavesdropping on the happy couple. What happens to them reads as a dark enactment of his deepest wishes. The nurse narrator of “The Violet Car” – presented with a couple who each claim the other is the mad one in need of her care – mentions with cool appraisal “that importance, that conscious competence, that one feels in the presence of other people’s troubles”. The whole story is concerned with the complicated business of apportioning blame, guilt and justice. A lot of inconvenient people are got rid of in these stories, one way or another, and they are more disquieting than they seem at first read.
But of course, it was always so. Nesbit’s stories for children are always aware of adult sadness – it’s just that she never made the children look in that direction. Think of the father of The Railway Children, sent to prison after being falsely accused of spying. Think of the smug and awful young man that the Lamb turns into in Five Children and It. Nesbit knew that adults could be rapacious, contemptuous, malicious and sadistic. Her own life story includes an adulterous husband who got one of her dearest friends pregnant. She knew about anger, hatred and sexual jealousy. And in these very chilling grownup stories, she lets the knowledge out that she held back so carefully in her work for children.
• E Nesbit’s Horror Stories, selected and introduced by Naomi Alderman, will be published in the Penguin Worlds series on 29 September. To order a copy for £7.37 (RRP £8.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.
Not suitable for kids: the deliciously creepy ghost stories of E Nesbit
The author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It was familiar with the darker aspects of life, which she wrote about in some decidedly adult stories
‘She knew all about anger and sexual jealousy’ … E Nesbit. Photograph: Getty Image
Naomi Alderman
Saturday 24 September 2016 13.00 BST
Those of us who grew up with E Nesbit’s wonderful novels for children – The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet – may be surprised to learn that she wrote ghost stories for adults. And it might be even more surprising to encounter some of the grim underpinnings of these delicious fireside tales. Lurking in the background are dead children, thwarted love, jealousy, vengeance and the sense that even the best kind of love – the famous love that never falters, the love that pays the price – has something dark lurking within it
“This is not an artistically rounded-off ghost story,” says the narrator of “The Shadow”, “and nothing is explained in it, and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened.” Which of course begs the reader to ask what the explanation for the story is, and why any of it should have happened. There is a young couple, very much in love, expecting their first baby. And there is Miss Eastwich, a woman so silent that the children she looks after later in life never think of treating her as “other than a machine”. She tells her story of the shadow that crept into the house of her two friends, whom she had “loved more than anything in the world” and who had married each other. The narrator understands, as does the reader, that Miss Eastwich had trusted her best friend Mabel – one half of that connubial bliss – not to take the man she loved, but Mabel had taken him anyway. And then what happens? Well, there’s “a shadow”. Is Miss Eastwich the shadow? Is she the one responsible for all that happens in the house?
There is darkness in the corners of these stories, like that gathering shadow – ordinary callousness turning into something more disturbing. “There’ll be more wedding tomorrow than ever you’ll take the first part in,” snarls the narrator of “John Charrington’s Wedding” to his spinster sister – a man so consumed with jealousy that he sneaks around eavesdropping on the happy couple. What happens to them reads as a dark enactment of his deepest wishes. The nurse narrator of “The Violet Car” – presented with a couple who each claim the other is the mad one in need of her care – mentions with cool appraisal “that importance, that conscious competence, that one feels in the presence of other people’s troubles”. The whole story is concerned with the complicated business of apportioning blame, guilt and justice. A lot of inconvenient people are got rid of in these stories, one way or another, and they are more disquieting than they seem at first read.
But of course, it was always so. Nesbit’s stories for children are always aware of adult sadness – it’s just that she never made the children look in that direction. Think of the father of The Railway Children, sent to prison after being falsely accused of spying. Think of the smug and awful young man that the Lamb turns into in Five Children and It. Nesbit knew that adults could be rapacious, contemptuous, malicious and sadistic. Her own life story includes an adulterous husband who got one of her dearest friends pregnant. She knew about anger, hatred and sexual jealousy. And in these very chilling grownup stories, she lets the knowledge out that she held back so carefully in her work for children.
• E Nesbit’s Horror Stories, selected and introduced by Naomi Alderman, will be published in the Penguin Worlds series on 29 September. To order a copy for £7.37 (RRP £8.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I've read some her horror stories, they are very good.I've just come across this from The Guardian: I am so going to order this book.
Not suitable for kids: the deliciously creepy ghost stories of E Nesbit
The author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It was familiar with the darker aspects of life, which she wrote about in some decidedly adult stories
‘She knew all about anger and sexual jealousy’ … E Nesbit. Photograph: Getty Image
Naomi Alderman
Saturday 24 September 2016 13.00 BST
Those of us who grew up with E Nesbit’s wonderful novels for children – The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet – may be surprised to learn that she wrote ghost stories for adults. And it might be even more surprising to encounter some of the grim underpinnings of these delicious fireside tales. Lurking in the background are dead children, thwarted love, jealousy, vengeance and the sense that even the best kind of love – the famous love that never falters, the love that pays the price – has something dark lurking within it
“This is not an artistically rounded-off ghost story,” says the narrator of “The Shadow”, “and nothing is explained in it, and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened.” Which of course begs the reader to ask what the explanation for the story is, and why any of it should have happened. There is a young couple, very much in love, expecting their first baby. And there is Miss Eastwich, a woman so silent that the children she looks after later in life never think of treating her as “other than a machine”. She tells her story of the shadow that crept into the house of her two friends, whom she had “loved more than anything in the world” and who had married each other. The narrator understands, as does the reader, that Miss Eastwich had trusted her best friend Mabel – one half of that connubial bliss – not to take the man she loved, but Mabel had taken him anyway. And then what happens? Well, there’s “a shadow”. Is Miss Eastwich the shadow? Is she the one responsible for all that happens in the house?
There is darkness in the corners of these stories, like that gathering shadow – ordinary callousness turning into something more disturbing. “There’ll be more wedding tomorrow than ever you’ll take the first part in,” snarls the narrator of “John Charrington’s Wedding” to his spinster sister – a man so consumed with jealousy that he sneaks around eavesdropping on the happy couple. What happens to them reads as a dark enactment of his deepest wishes. The nurse narrator of “The Violet Car” – presented with a couple who each claim the other is the mad one in need of her care – mentions with cool appraisal “that importance, that conscious competence, that one feels in the presence of other people’s troubles”. The whole story is concerned with the complicated business of apportioning blame, guilt and justice. A lot of inconvenient people are got rid of in these stories, one way or another, and they are more disquieting than they seem at first read.
But of course, it was always so. Nesbit’s stories for children are always aware of adult sadness – it’s just that she never made the children look in that direction. Think of the father of The Railway Children, sent to prison after being falsely accused of spying. Think of the smug and awful young man that the Lamb turns into in Five Children and It. Nesbit knew that adults could be rapacious, contemptuous, malicious and sadistic. Her own life story includes an adulterous husband who got one of her dearest friends pregnant. She knew about anger, hatred and sexual jealousy. And in these very chilling grownup stories, she lets the knowledge out that she held back so carefully in her work for children.
• E Nesbit’s Horror Stories, selected and introduced by Naomi Alderman, will be published in the Penguin Worlds series on 29 September. To order a copy for £7.37 (RRP £8.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99.
I had no idea she wrote them.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I've got one of those Pan compendium horror paperbacks like this :
She featured in one of them - Charrington' s wedding.
More here.
http://vaultofevil.proboards.com/thread/990