I luv u drunk Karl
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
Never read Gringos but I imagine it’s got to be better than Masters of Atlantis.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 August 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
Nothing is better than Masters of Atlantis except maybe Dog of the South.
― Chris L, Monday, 9 August 2021 05:36 (two years ago) link
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― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 August 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
I think the '90s are mostly going to be me being unenthusiastic about middlebrow pap. I've read a few but nothing I'd call good.
Time's Arrow - maybe the only Amis that I feel like I'd still be into if I re-read again, as I am a sucker for a formal conceit, but eh, it was an awfully long time ago I read this. And as I said in the other thread, fuck Amis.
American Psycho - the way in which the writing's slick glossiness reflects the vapid and hollow milieu it sets itself in is v apt and well done. Everything else, eh. Also fuck Ellis.
Regeneration - might have enjoyed this more if I hadn't been forced to study it in class, but my recollections of this are entirely that it was an excruciatingly boring read. As far as I'm aware Barker isn't a hugely terrible person, though, so there is that in its favour.
― emil.y, Monday, 9 August 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
damn what a shitty year lmao
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 9 August 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
I recall the kerfuffle over the Amis book having cribbed its conceit from all three of Vonnegut, Dick and Ballard, but now since a proper writer was doing it all was well. Shit, that was 30 years ago? *checks mirror*
― the people of dorchester are marching upon us (Matt #2), Monday, 9 August 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Eh, I don't feel like time-slippage/backwards story-telling needs to be a proprietary thing. Vonnegut, Dick and Ballard are all much better writers than Amis, though, and I can just imagine the wankery of that discourse about "proper writers".
― emil.y, Monday, 9 August 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
I loved Pat Barker's WWI novels, and he gets the queer nuances right, sez this queer who was neither British nor alive in 1916.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 August 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
(Pat Barker is a lady, which i didn't realise until recently, because wwi war poets struck me as a man's subject)
that said, a Google image search makes her look like two different people. but both of them are female.
― koogs, Monday, 9 August 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
here's where I admit to enjoying Generation X
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 9 August 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
i think i'd've enjoyed it more if i hadn't read microserfs first
― koogs, Monday, 9 August 2021 22:46 (two years ago) link
It’s either Time’s Arrow or Jernigan for me, I guess.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 August 2021 22:54 (two years ago) link
Heard of Quignard and quite like to read him and not sure why I've not come round -- see there is quite a lot in translation.
I've only read the Tabucchi. Like but won't vote for it. Like Emily finding this period a tad barren.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 9 August 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Like fuck is American Psycho better than the Saramago, grumble grumble.
I recall the kerfuffle over the Amis book having cribbed its conceit from all three of Vonnegut, Dick and Ballard, but now since a proper writer was doing it all was well.
I thought Ballard and, to a lesser extent, Vonnegut were always seen as Proper Writers?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
I thought I’d voted for sure. :(
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1992
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 10 August 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
Missed this on a camping trip, write-in for The Gold Bug Variations.
― bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link