Re: Any recommendations?altamontJune 28 2005, 04:46:29 UTC
Glad ya asked...
Pantheon pick:
Sterne's "Tristram Shandy": Probably the funniest damn book in the English language. Well worth the effort.
Stacked around the room at the moment:
"Wigfield" by Amy Sedaris et al. Small-town psychosis in red-state USA. Ouch. Funny. Double ouch.
"Grooks" by Piet Hein and "Goops and How To Be Them" by Gellett Burgess. Industrial-strength whimsy.
N. Tomalin/R. Hall, "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst." Overweening ambition and underweening common sense lead to Wagnerian insaniac mid-oceanic meltdown. Amazing.
"The Primary Colors" by Alexander Theroux. There's still lotsa life in the essay form.
"God" by Alexander Waugh. Yes, that Waugh, grandson of Evelyn, son of Auberon. Repeatedly hoists Nobodaddy by His own petard. Fun.
"Five Screenplays" by Preston Sturges. Best. Dialogue. Ever.
Re: Any recommendations?goddlefroodJune 28 2005, 07:41:57 UTC
Thanks, have read Life and Opinions, rather a cock and a bull story.
Will look out for some of the others.
If interested am currently reading The Experts Speak, rather fey and amusing, Alastor by Jack Vance - escapist fare but actually well worth the effrot for sci-fi, and Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell because I temd to read most detective fiction no matter how poor (I know it's a pathologist but the genre is there).
Not too many decent bookshops in Fiji (in fact none) so most of my purchases are on-line.
All the best and I look forward to Noam's arrival in due course.
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Pantheon pick:
Sterne's "Tristram Shandy": Probably the funniest damn book in the English language. Well worth the effort.
Stacked around the room at the moment:
"Wigfield" by Amy Sedaris et al. Small-town psychosis in red-state USA. Ouch. Funny. Double ouch.
"Grooks" by Piet Hein and "Goops and How To Be Them" by Gellett Burgess. Industrial-strength whimsy.
N. Tomalin/R. Hall, "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst." Overweening ambition and underweening common sense lead to Wagnerian insaniac mid-oceanic meltdown. Amazing.
"The Primary Colors" by Alexander Theroux. There's still lotsa life in the essay form.
"God" by Alexander Waugh. Yes, that Waugh, grandson of Evelyn, son of Auberon. Repeatedly hoists Nobodaddy by His own petard. Fun.
"Five Screenplays" by Preston Sturges. Best. Dialogue. Ever.
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Will look out for some of the others.
If interested am currently reading The Experts Speak, rather fey and amusing, Alastor by Jack Vance - escapist fare but actually well worth the effrot for sci-fi, and Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell because I temd to read most detective fiction no matter how poor (I know it's a pathologist but the genre is there).
Not too many decent bookshops in Fiji (in fact none) so most of my purchases are on-line.
All the best and I look forward to Noam's arrival in due course.
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