girasol
Addicted to handstands!
1971
what's the best novel you've ever read?
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1971
Mine too! I'm surprised you liked it, really, cos I thought you were hip. The first half starts out with just incredibly trite prose and it's really rubbish. Admittedly, once it all kicks off a bit then it is a lot more readable but it's still written in valley speak, which I find incredibly irritating.
My mistake, sorry, I think I confused it with another one of his. The world ends. For some reason.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Well you're certainly the perfect generation for it, so either you didn't like it because you were already 31 or you didn't like it because you just didn't like it. Most likely the latter, really -- there's nothing written that will appeal to everyone, after all.
I... disagree. I think Coupland has the ability to say more in one sentence than most authors manage in an entire page.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
I read it on recommendation and was disappointed - I don't remember it being well written (had I liked the writing style that would have made all the difference, because I liked 'The Rules of Attraction' and 'American Psycho' and they're also about Generation X people, aren't they?)
Structaural
in Chatsubo
The Godfather
dunno, i haven't read it.
elevendayempire
Registered Loofah
The Crimson Petal and the White. I loved that one. 
I just remember thinking he was about as good at writing prose as Dan Brown. The ideas were really good but the execution was really trite. I thought, anyway.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Whereas I think his prose is about as good as I've read.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
seriously? I always thought Puzo was a shit author
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I loved his books when I was a teen, but think a revisit may nauseate me with its smug academic settings. My images of what uni was like were shaped by him and this idyllic illusion was brutally shattered when I arrived at the University Of Greenwich.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
pistols at dawn
What kabbes doesn't know is that mama sadken laces her custard with agent orange. Kabbes is gonna say he does know that because he's been banging my mum, which may or may not be true but it has little bearing here, since, as far as I know she has not asked him to have any custard to date.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Well... I did read it when I was 14, it were great then.
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
Not sure about the best novel I have ever read, but novels that when I have finished I have wanted to just start reading again would include;
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Grapes of Wrath
Lucky Jim
Native Son
The Big Sleep
The Man in the High Castle
The Plot against America
Loniness of the Long Distance Runner
England Away
Plus many others..
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Grapes of Wrath
Lucky Jim
Native Son
The Big Sleep
The Man in the High Castle
The Plot against America
Loniness of the Long Distance Runner
England Away
Plus many others..
You wot? The tapeworm is Bruce's *conscience,* its vital to the book's meaning. And it is indeed a great book--a "Ulysees" for the postmodern age.
Still and all though, anyone who answers anything other than "The Brothers Karamazov" either hasn't read it or is a wanker.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Didn't register like that for me, just came off as a particularly annoying bit of authorial wanking tbh.
I forgave it because the book itself is so damn funny and grim by turns
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
well there is a titillating wedding sex scene right at the start, which would appeal to any fourteen year old.
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