New Year's Resolutions

That shows what you know about literature, pal. It's nowhere near as
good as "Go to the park".

 

weight loss is another resolution. I'll email you.

 

I read mostly contemporary fiction, political analysis, and biography.

 

Please sir, please! Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, sir!

 

"Carribean". 832 pages!

 

Read it.

The Lost Continent was the only one to make me laugh out loud, but the
next two were funny. The rest went downhill, as he entered the land
of self-parody.

 

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Thanks Doc.

 

Books I've gone through recently, and recommend, are:

Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49
William Golding - Freefall
Fyodor Dostoevsky (sp?) - The Idiot

Currently reading Toni's Morrison's The Bluest Eye which is, in short,
fucking incredible.

 

Sometime around Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:28:33 +0000, Bob babbled on about:

Try Tom Sharpe.

 

I think I did, but I'll check.

I went to the Steinbeck Museum in Salinas, CA [0], with my Dad in
October. Excellent museum; really well presented. Dad *really*
enjoyed it, partly because his favourite film is East of Eden [1].

[0] http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html
[1] which you can't get on video or DVD. Why?

 

I felt "Go to the park," lacked the depth of betrayal and undercurrents of
conspiracy provided by "New Shoes," but I bow to your superior knowledge.

 

I hadn't thought of it like that. I shall re-read the works, with
this alternative perspective in mind. Thanks for the pointer.

 

#With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue

 

I'd also recommend Wheen's effort and also Hegemony or Survival by Noel
Edmonds or Noam Chomsky I forget which.. For laughs I'd go for (since Bryson
isn't funny anymore) anything by Carl Hiaasen (sp) or Stephen Fry,
especially The Hippopotamus.

 

I do indeed and that is a valid point but I largely didn't notice them
too much.

Now all his books amuse me but yes I can see that one is funny and
perhaps a little too truthful

 

Jonathan Coe - The Closed Circle
(and The Rotters Club, if you've not read it, as tcc is a sequel)

Bill Drummond - 45

Jeremy Paxman - The English

Dr Parsons - This Is War by Georg Bush

Richard Flanagan - Gould's Book of Fish

Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski - Meg On The Moon

David Hare - Via Dolorosa

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

'Adventurer's Road' by TR Nicholson - pub 1957; an account of the 1907
Peking to Paris overland motor crossing and the 1908 New York to Paris
trip. You'll find copies via www.abebooks.com.

Truly a Ripping Yarn.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Currently reading The Murder of Mr. Grebbell. OK, it's local history
for me, but is a nice history book to boot.

http://yalepress.yale.edu/YupBooks/viewbook.asp?isbn=0300099851

Mrs Prawn says A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters by Julian Barnes.

 

The Fib and other stories by George Layton.

Redshift by Alan Garner

 

We've just been sharing a chalet with some South Africans. They rated
it.