Guest Iain C Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I've not read much Roth but I know I should. One of my lecturers recommended The Plot Against America to me last year and I ate it up, but I'm a sucker for alternate histories. Where next, literary WATMMers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 I've not read much Roth but I know I should. One of my lecturers recommended The Plot Against America to me last year and I ate it up, but I'm a sucker for alternate histories. Where next, literary WATMMers? havent read that one yet. Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoys Complaint were the other two roths i read and both were fantastic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 i liked the dying animal. haven't read anything else by him. i imagine he can get pretty boring and self pitying though...bit like john updike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 i liked the dying animal. haven't read anything else by him. i imagine he can get pretty boring and self pitying though...bit like john updike. Hes self pitying in a hilarious thoughtful way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Great Maker ShaiHulud Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 The Confidence Man - Melville Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 i got that bryson book for christmas a few years back but i haven't read it yet, wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 THe Bryson book is good. That one and the one about the english language are his good ones. The walk in the woods one is bullshit, he never walked the whole trail, just parts of it. He gets some things wrong in his science book as well as the language book, but stilla good writer for the most part. Currently reading: STephen Jay Gould - Leonardo's MOuntain of Clams and the Diet of Worms. Also: russian literature is the tits. Italo Calvino is god, but slightly overrated as a magical realist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benedict Cumberbatch Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 just struggled my way through yiddish policemans union. what a load of crap. didnt get into it but kept going anyway and was rewarded with an awful ending. basically: "the killer is erm.....yeah this guy from earlier in the book, you remember him right? he was barely introduced. the mastermind is erm... that other guy we met at the chessclub. yeah why not. " avoid this book. and a big thanks to the wankers who recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Just reread Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, this is a good novel but I did not enjoy it fully because I intend to write about it in a fucking exam tomorrow. Argh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 just struggled my way through yiddish policemans union. what a load of crap. didnt get into it but kept going anyway and was rewarded with an awful ending. basically: "the killer is erm.....yeah this guy from earlier in the book, you remember him right? he was barely introduced. the mastermind is erm... that other guy we met at the chessclub. yeah why not. " avoid this book. and a big thanks to the wankers who recommended. Glad someone spoke the truth about that shit. It kept getting all this praise. Sounded totally absurd. THe Bryson book is good. That one and the one about the english language are his good ones. The walk in the woods one is bullshit, he never walked the whole trail, just parts of it. ah man that book is gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plstik Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 this is maybe my first "bestseller". I dont know if you can compare it with Illuminati, Sakrileg and the likes, but so far I have really enjoyed this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triachus Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami same here i'm really enjoying it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drahken Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Rant - Palahniuk Book of the Hopi - Frank Waters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest atropa Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 the lover - marguerite duras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 a walk in the woods was a great book. i'm not sure how you can say it was bullshit. it was funny, well written and had a good heart to it. it promoted walking and taking things slow. it's his best book. also, michael chabon isn't a very good writer. he's not quite as bad as jonathan safran foer, but he's close. that whole wondrous brooklyn school of jewish pseudo magical realism is the most overhyped thing ever. right now i'm reading this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv_party Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 the master and margarita - mikhail bulgakov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 "The power of now" by Eckhart Tolle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrx Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 sound on sound may 09 issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tv_party Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami same here i'm really enjoying it one of my favorite authors. I like almost everything of his that I have read. it's really hard to pick favorites but I'm going to go with Kafka on the Shore and then Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World... and almost everything else. just read some newer short story collection. good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Anyone heard about this? Rinko Kikuchi To Star in Movie Adaptation of Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' I haven't read this book yet but I like Kikuchi and it's being directed by Tran Anh Hung, who did a beautiful movie called Cyclo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atop Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 The Wonder by J D Beresford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Anyone heard about this? Rinko Kikuchi To Star in Movie Adaptation of Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' I haven't read this book yet but I like Kikuchi and it's being directed by Tran Anh Hung, who did a beautiful movie called Cyclo. weird, murakami has always battled the idea of turning that book into a movie. anyway it's probably his most melodramatic and ridiculous novel, i'm not too sure how well it would work as a film. i guess if it's toned down it might work. i'd rather see hard boiled wonderland or windup bird turned into a movie, honestly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Anyone heard about this? Rinko Kikuchi To Star in Movie Adaptation of Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' I haven't read this book yet but I like Kikuchi and it's being directed by Tran Anh Hung, who did a beautiful movie called Cyclo. It was always a deep deep thought for me to adapt Norwegian Wood I love that book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 :queues up Cyclo on netflix to prepare: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Anyone heard about this? Rinko Kikuchi To Star in Movie Adaptation of Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood' I haven't read this book yet but I like Kikuchi and it's being directed by Tran Anh Hung, who did a beautiful movie called Cyclo. weird, murakami has always battled the idea of turning that book into a movie. anyway it's probably his most melodramatic and ridiculous novel, i'm not too sure how well it would work as a film. i guess if it's toned down it might work. i'd rather see hard boiled wonderland or windup bird turned into a movie, honestly. I dont think those are actually quite as filmable. Wood's probably his most straightforward book. Im tempted to read it again. Im sure im a pretty different person now than I was when I read it, but it might be a painful experience. Could be quite a rich experience too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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