The Days Of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
The only other I've read is '69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess by Stewart Home' and it's ok in a read it today take it back to Oxfam tomorrow sorta way. Really thought it would've been a late 90s product.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
I always wanted to try getting into Stewart Home as he's an important related figure to a lot of stuff I love, but there's a macho aggressiveness to his work that really puts me off.
Wu Ming is also Luther Blissett, right?
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
69 (geddit?) Things is page after page of aggressive, graphic sex and conversations about Lacan. Forever. I'm sure it had a point but I never found it. The staff in my local Oxfam would have been appalled.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
― xyzzzz__,
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 15:02 (two years ago) link
yep, give or take one dude.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link
yeah I felt a bit suss even just typing out that Stewart Home title but I tend to try to include anything billed as postmodern or experimental fiction
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
Kafka it is
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
(The only one I read)
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
Well, I vaguely remember reading the Eggers.
Days of abandonment >>>> (i haven’t read a single other book on this list)
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
The only two I've read are "Everything is Illuminated" and "Snow", so this is "Snow" pretty easily for me. Shout-out to Gary Shteyngart's debut "Russian Debutante's Handbook" which was enjoyably amusing.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
These last two polls have led me to realise I always get Jonathans Franzen and Safran Foer mixed up (perhaps unsurprisingly as I've read nothing by either of them).
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
Ferrante and McKillip are awesome, but I haven't read either of these books. Only one here I have read is Kafka On The Shore: also the title of a song that became legendary, the sole single (backed w instrumental version) of a girl who then disappeared. Fun w the 00s Uncut/Mojo-type idolatry, then a 15-year-old boy flees something with a Dad-line penumbra, deep into the boondocks, finds a big sister figure, whom he fucks in a moonlight flight, not settling for her handjobs, finds the Kafka chick, who turns out to be his mom, so he fucks her too. By this point, I'm rooting for the Dad-like penumbra to squash him. I won't spoil the ending though. Is Murukami always like this?
― dow, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
Cats, jazz, spaghetti, characters who art writers or editors, weird sex shit
Yep, that’s him
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
Are, not art
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 21 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 22 October 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2003
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 October 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link