paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
Fair enough.. I know I explained it very poorly and someone can't account for what they like or don't like. I was just a bit taken aback by you calling an old blind bloke a cunt!
The last REAL STINKER of a book you bought?
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Fair enough.. I know I explained it very poorly and someone can't account for what they like or don't like. I was just a bit taken aback by you calling an old blind bloke a cunt!
discokermit
Well-Known Member
i've done worse.
i didn't have quite such a vehement reaction - i just settled for overwritten and dull.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
the gorse trilogy by patrick hamilton. first trilogy (20,000 Streets Under the Sky) dead good, next novel (Hangover Square) absolutely brilliant, then this sack of shit.
He was mostly fucked by then. The Slaves of Solitude is his last thing in which the quality control is still there. The Gorse books can be read as yarns, I think, but not much more.
Jean Marie Gustave Le Clezio - The Flood for me. Fully formed cock that I'm too old and lazy to bother with.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
agreement on Diceman - not as clever or shocking as it thinks it is, and offputtingly misogynist.
zen and the art of m/cycle... tried twice as an undergrad, but gave up cos it was too dull.
we need to talk about kevin - very hard to get into, i'd say the first half. then very good and very terrifying about future progeny
lovely bones - can't really remember it
anyway, my contribution is 'Wicked' by jilly cooper - i've never read any jilly cooper before, but everyone goes on about her books being great mindless fun, and it was about all i fancied in the bookshop at the airport in sri lanka.
god it was offensive. set in the state and public school systems, actually the teaching stuff wasn't intolerable - but there's all these female teachers shagging 14 year old boys - which is high spirits, but men shagging or fancying teenage girls is evil and wrong.
plus it's so bloody patronisingly pro tory, pro public school, pro class system. it's fuzzy on the morality of racism too.
in the end i read it all cos i was horrified and fascinated, and it is an easy read - despite being very long.
but seriously. the woman is very, very dodgy.
zen and the art of m/cycle... tried twice as an undergrad, but gave up cos it was too dull.
we need to talk about kevin - very hard to get into, i'd say the first half. then very good and very terrifying about future progeny
lovely bones - can't really remember it
anyway, my contribution is 'Wicked' by jilly cooper - i've never read any jilly cooper before, but everyone goes on about her books being great mindless fun, and it was about all i fancied in the bookshop at the airport in sri lanka.
god it was offensive. set in the state and public school systems, actually the teaching stuff wasn't intolerable - but there's all these female teachers shagging 14 year old boys - which is high spirits, but men shagging or fancying teenage girls is evil and wrong.
plus it's so bloody patronisingly pro tory, pro public school, pro class system. it's fuzzy on the morality of racism too.
in the end i read it all cos i was horrified and fascinated, and it is an easy read - despite being very long.
but seriously. the woman is very, very dodgy.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i was going to put this, utterly utterly awful book, i wanted to punch the main character cos he's such a berk, soooooooooooooo pretentious it's untrue.
But spouting endless unconscionable cockwipe is such terrific fun
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
aye, i realise that, quite sad to see someone going so far off the boil tho.
mrsfran
Well-Known Member
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon. I absolutely loved Kavalier and Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and so was crushingly disappointed to read the utterly unlikable, boring, self-satisfied bollocks that was The Wonder Boys. I wasted two days of my holiday reading that.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Bah, was gonna read this next - should i not bother?
non-ficition, Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding.
absolute liberal arsewarts.
absolute liberal arsewarts.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Paperback Raita,
Ugh, god how I hate these lazy, punning, flip-pop-culture-referencing book titles. THEY MAKE ME WANT TO KILL.
Obviously haven't read it but I'm unsurprised it's shit.
I haven't bought any books for ages but the last one I read that was truly terrible was 'Under A Blood Red Sky' by Kate Furnivall. Her writing is just so unbelieveably bad, I was actually shocked that someone would publish it. The story itself is far-fetched and ridiculous, which I don't have a problem with, but the prose, my god! Like reading a 16 year old's unedited effort at novel-writing.
Having said that, it was a birthday present from lovely MIL when my son was about 3 months old and at that time it was the perfect read
Easy enough that a boggled new mum could cope with it, rubbish enough that the intellectual snob in me had something to sneer at.
