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Sep 2019
7:14am, 17 Sep 2019
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westmoors
I also started reading TWCTTE yesterday!
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Sep 2019
9:09am, 18 Sep 2019
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LindsD
Finished Fat Hairy Planet yesterday. Shall review when I have access to a keyboard.
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Sep 2019
9:22am, 18 Sep 2019
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McGoohan
If not, you could review in the form of an interpretive dance?
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Sep 2019
9:32am, 18 Sep 2019
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Chrisull
Currently on Rachel Cusk's Kudos, which started brightly and now is interesting without being particularly earthshattering. Cusk employs what I deem the "narrative by digression" device, where there doesn't seem to be a plot, but the narrator describes the scenery or location and that leads to a particular detail or person walking in who tells a story, and then the narrative advances. Javier Marias is quite like that as well, and occasionally Ishiguro (The Unconsoled). It can be effective, but it can drive you up the wall at times too. :-).Cusk's first digression/story is a really quite incisive one about a family growing apart united by a dog, and the death of that dog potentially leading to them all coming unstuck. However after that none of the other stories/digressions have quite the same emotional clout or resonance...
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Sep 2019
9:48am, 18 Sep 2019
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McGoohan
At the other end of the spectrum and speaking of metafiction as we were, I'm halfway through Stephen King's crime thriller Mr Mercedes. I'm enjoying it, but hooo boy does he like to get self-referential. We've already had a mention of 'that horror film with the possessed car' and now we learn that the perpetrator of the crime was wearing a clown mask 'like Pennywise in that movie'. It's like he's drumming up sales for his own books!
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Sep 2019
10:01am, 18 Sep 2019
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LindsD
*dances*
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Sep 2019
10:03am, 18 Sep 2019
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Diogenes
He's not stupid
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Sep 2019
10:09am, 18 Sep 2019
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Love Lettuce
I finally finished Born to Run last night. I started it while I was away on holiday and then let it languish a few chapters from the end for weeks. That approach reflects how I feel about the book in general: I wanted to love it, because I enjoyed books like Running with the Kenyans and Feet in the Clouds so much that I've re-read them multiple times. But this felt like hard work. The only section that really gripped me was the description of the Leadville 100. I found the author's voice a bit jarring, and I realised there was too much about characters and not enough about running for my taste. Shame
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Sep 2019
7:27pm, 18 Sep 2019
15,234 posts
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Bazoaxe
TWCTTE - I am starting to like this now that I am a fair chunk in
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Sep 2019
8:44pm, 19 Sep 2019
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Columba
Me too, me too.
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