#340

10 points from me.

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#341

2666 is probably the bleakest book I’ve ever read

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#342

agree that Molly is fully nerd wish fulfilment but I wouldn’t say it’s that bad overall. having read it for the first time last year i would say it has far greater problems, i.e. it is borderline unreadable and i had no idea what was going on 80% of the time. i’m sure that’s part of it’s charm for some.

#343

On the Road is one of the worst things I’ve ever read. Of course it’s difficult to edit yourself when you just write a load of shite on the back of a roll of wallpaper, but the man could have invested in a red pen at some point.

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#344

See, I loved the book and absolutely hate the film. It doesn’t really feel like it has anything in common with the source material at all, it’s just a two hour long Radiohead video.

I had Michel really high up in my list, shame to see him so far down - ditto Jim Dodge.

#345

Embassytown’s one of the finest books I’ve ever read.

#346

I’m bitter, I’m twisted, James Joyce is…

Ulysses was one of those books where you stare at the same page for fifteen minutes and can’t remember which words you’ve tried to read.

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#347

I loved the film and I loved the book. I think the film expertly captures the book’s atmosphere and point even though it’s not really connected to it at all. One of the few examples I’d give of a book and film being equally good, because of the licence taken maybe (The Shining would be another).

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#348

Good Morning Everyone!

No. 80
6580622
WG Sebald

  • Austerlitz
  • Rings of Saturn
  • Emigrants
  • Vertigo
  • Other
  • None
  • DKWYA, P

0 voters

#349

Really like him as the cowboy in Big Lebowski.

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#350

No options for any of the bridge trilogy?!

Probably Virtual Light or Idoru for me. The image of the shanty town on the Bay Bridge is one that’s permanently burned into my subconscious.

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#351

Rings of Saturn is definitely the best book I’ve ever read by a German writer about the landscape of Norwich

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#352

Another one on my big “To Read” list. Like the sound of his stuff, for sure…

#353

I thought you promised these were the ones we’d know

jks love your dedication

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#354

This is probably too much to ask @wonton, but would be interesting if there were options for “heard of but never read” and “Never heard of at all”.

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#355

Yeah, I know lots of people love the film. I just couldn’t get anything out of it. Initially I thought it was my disappointment at how different it was, but it’s just not my kind of thing.

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#356

By the end of today it will all be clearer, promise

@hip_young_gunslinger No reason why not, the thread is evolving!

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#357

Surely “None” is heard of but never read?

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#358

I always read “None” as “pfft, what a load of bollocks”

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#359

I mean it is absolutely not a narrative film and that usually doesn’t do it for me so yeah, fair play!