#127

good guitar, is it a jag-master?

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#128

The writing style is obviously pretty different, but I just read The Nix by Nathan Hill and it strongly put me in mind of Oscar Wao. Interweaving stories and timelines, family history, multiple POVs, a magical curse, similar protagonists, similar geek culture focus, touches on lots of political upheaval … I wasn’t sold to start with but once I realised the comparison I enjoyed it a lot. It’s less unique (due to being much more “American”) but still very effective and touching.

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#129

Rushdie probs. Also like Zadie Smith and yer man Murakami.

#130

Yep. Had it for about 15 years.

Of course there’s always people ready to look down on any guitar that doesn’t cost £600+ but it really is a nice guitar.

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#131

That’s so generous man, might take you up on that. I’m sure I read about some sort of DiS book exchange on here recently …

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#132

Also has anyone read Bonfire of the Vanities before? I’ve got a copy but I struggled with the writing style and not sure if I should push past that …

#133

if it is the squier vista version I have the musicmaster bass and musicmaster guitar in the same range, both great

#134

It really annoyed me too. I read it while I was researching my dissertation on Bret Easton Ellis and I couldn’t get away from the idea that Patrick Bateman would have dealt with his awkward situation much more efficiently.

#135

Definitely continue. It’s thrilling and funny and prescient and very very good

#136

Mines the model after that. Mine is made in China but they used fancy bits- the neck etc is way nicer than usual for that price point. I think they made a mistake with the pricing, selling it too cheap basically because they only did that model for a short period of time before relaunching it with way cheaper parts a few years later.

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#137

I read that recently as well, enjoyed it, but it wouldn’t have occurred to me to link it to Oscar Wao. I can see what you mean though.

#138

Not a problem! I should be done in two weeks so ill.message you for your address and post it :slight_smile:

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#139

I just remember when I got it as a gift when I was 17 being thrilled and then some local music bro deflating me and trying to make me feel embarrassed that I hadn’t got some £1000 vintage 60s jaguar or something.

People are awful.

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#140

Yeah I know the writing style is pretty far apart (with Diaz’s being much more to my taste) but it helped me to appreciate The Nix a lot more. Before that was struggling with how mean the mother seemed and how pathetic Samuel was (exactly how I felt at parts in Oscar Wao) but after that I could see them more clearly as just products of circumstance - when you know the history, it’s easier to sympathise with who they turned out to be.

#141

A vintage Jag for just £1000 though, ahh if only …

#142

This was like in 2002 mind.

#143

ooh, I always like a bookshelf photo. If there’s an interview in a magazine and the subject is photographed in front of a bookshelf I’ll spend the next five minute squinting at the spines to see if I’ve read any of them. (observations on yours - you really should read The Owl Service soon as it’s brilliant (disclaimer: I last read it in the previous century). I also very vaguely know the bloke who republished Krabat (most pathetic DiS namedrop ever?).

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#144

Damn, why didn’t my 11 year old self get involved while the action was good. More like £2500 now :’(

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#145

Oh yeah I love the Owl Service. I bought a new copy because I’m planning to do some illustration based on it- in the style of plates.

I read it as a kid and had the strong feeling “I am not old enough for this” and then re-read a few years later.

Same as Fire&Hemlock. Which I should do my annual Halloween re-read of.

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#146

I felt like Krabat was following me around for a while earlier this year

I went to the Studii Ghibli museum in March. They have a bookshop there stocked with Miyazaki’s favourite books, and there was loads of Ottfried Preussler, and the film they were showing in the cinema was inspired by Krabatt. I would have loved to buy loads of books there, but I was broke and they were all in Japanese. I wrote down this list however:

Then I was doing workshops in a school in Austria where my class were studying Krabat in German class. I really liked the woodcut illustrations, and realised it was the same story I’d seen in the Ghibli film/shop, so picked up my own copy in a local bookshop.