New now reading

[clive gash]

http://www.zero-books.net/books/kill-all-normies

[Darkness_Fish]

Helped me get a low score on Pointless yesterday, cheers!

Was the topic Japanese Authors, by any chance? Good book, too, I preferred it to the more celebrated Remains of the Day.

[clive gash]

Not quite as highbrow as that - novels with words ending in "-ing" missing from the titles.

An Artist of the ------ World

[Darkness_Fish]

Just picked it up in the charity book bit of Tesco. Never read any Ray Bradbury before.

[clive gash]

Slouching towards Biloxi: Joan Didion on life in America's south

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/ ... h-and-west

[KeithPratt]

I can only read one of this series a year because they are so intense, but in that time I'm utterly gripped by him.

[clive gash]

[naughty boy]

Loving it.

[echolalia]

Liking it?

[clive gash]

I think so. I’m reading it like poetry, each paragraph parsed three times at about ten words a minute. I wish I’d taken more notice at school.

[Darkness_Fish]

[driftin]

Started reading this last night so eventually I can feel superior to the people who haven't read it when the film comes out.

[Penk!]

I didn't know there was a film. The book trilogy was very good. I just looked the film up and - unlike most adaptations - it looks quite promising based on the cast and director (Garland's previous effort, Ex Machina, was a very good low-key brainy sci-fi).

[Robert]

Just picked it up in the charity book bit of Tesco. Never read any Ray Bradbury before.

I love practicalky all of Bradbury- but it's at least
20 years ago I read any of his books. The Martian Chronicles beat Fahrenheit 451 though.

[clive gash]

So, Ishiguro then.

His best?

[Darkness_Fish]

So, Ishiguro then.

His best?

I've only read Remains of the Day, An Artist of the Floating World, and Never Let Me Go. I was fairly nonplussed by RotD, it's a very reserved, slow and cautious tale about a slow, reserved and cautious man. I was waiting for the inevitable twist to really bring about an emotional wrench of some significance, but it never really came, in my view.

Never Let Me Go is similarly reserved and cautious in its approach, which seems to be very much the hallmark of Ishiguro's writing. His work feels defiantly pre-war in style. But this book was really powerful I thought, in the way the crushingly bleak future that each child faces is just dropped casually, occasionally into the narrative. It's a sci-fi that doesn't revolve around a reveal so much as a slow tearing away. This is the one I'd recommend, although it does get accused of plagiarism quite often, it seems that the theme might not be as unique as I believed.

Btw, Rateyourmusic's literature board had a bit of discussion about him recently, which might be of interest. I actually go there more for that board more than the music board, which is a bit inane. https://rateyourmusic.com/board_message ... id=6787734

[Snarfyguy]

Funny stuff!

[Darkness_Fish]

Feels very Sunday night TV. A bit dull.

[clive gash]

[echolalia]

^ I'd like to see that. "Only on netflix" - does that mean... yes, I suppose it does.