Will Self on QT

[Mungy]

will self has my missing share of top lip facial hair. i bet even chuck norris wishes his tache was that good.

 

[ViolentPanda]

shame cos clockwork orange and riddley walker are both incredible

As is "And the Ass saw the Angel".

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Book Of Dave isn't bad, the structure of it is quite interesting, but the fact that half of it is written in this future corrupted-east-end-slang dialect makes it just a pain to read a lot of the time. I've never been a fan of novels written in phonetic dialect, particularly if it's been invented specifically for the book.

Iain Banks does it well (The Bridge, Feersum endjinn) but Book of Dave just didn't work

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

it's a book will self wrote. some of it is written in a language that has developed hundreds of years after some kind of apocalypse. the only written language left is a diary written by a london taxidriver called dave. the spoken language has developed from the book, so i imagine dave was a spurs supporter and 'hotspur' is,, i supposethe new english's word for 'good'

No, 'it's a load of Hotspur' means it's shit.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Sounds fucking gash to me.

Indeed. It is, as I said, total Hotspur.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Oh, and that is fuck all to do with Will Self's book and everything to do with...



9:20

 

[Orang Utan]

Iain Banks does it well (The Bridge, Feersum endjinn) but Book of Dave just didn't work

i haven't read dave yet, but i disagree anyway. the bridge didn't really have any bastardised english in it anyway.

 

[DotCommunist]

the barbarian with the weird scots dialect

 

[Orang Utan]

vorderman & littlejohn next week - eeuunnggghh!

 

[Nemo]

vorderman & littlejohn next week - eeuunnggghh!

I noticed that too. One to miss.

 

[Orang Utan]

will self yesterday:

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i haven't read dave yet, but i disagree anyway. the bridge didn't really have any bastardised english in it anyway.

Eh? One third of the book is in a dialect. The sort of fantasy conan bloke

 

[DotCommunist]

Eh? One third of the book is in a dialect. The sort of fantasy conan bloke

And the appearance of a Knife Missile

Little bit of M and non M banks crossover there

 

[Orang Utan]

Eh? One third of the book is in a dialect. The sort of fantasy conan bloke

the bridge? all i remember is the bridge, the wide brimmed hats and the coma

 

[tbaldwin]

I didn't know he was an ex public school boy.

Mind you, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall went to Eton at the same time that Cameron was there.

But I suppose with a name like Fearnley-Whittingstall you had to go to private school.

Preety obvious i would have thought that he would be an x public schoolboy.
Egotistical twat doing all he can to connect with the plebs whilst barely concealing his contempt for them.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

the bridge? all i remember is the bridge, the wide brimmed hats and the coma

Really?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Preety obvious i would have thought that he would be an x public schoolboy.
Egotistical twat doing all he can to connect with the plebs whilst barely concealing his contempt for them.

I think he's reasonably funny as a person. I just thought the Book of Dave was a bit shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

Really?

i read it when i was about 19. i must have forgotten a whole section!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

the bridge? all i remember is the bridge, the wide brimmed hats and the coma

I remember the dialect but I didn't think it was a third of the book. Also, it's just phonetic dialect, it doesn't also involve made-up words; it's more like Trainspotting than Dave.

I did read one book in future dialect where I thought it was fine (Boxy An Star) but I can't remember any others. I haven't actually read Clockwork Orange I must admit.

 

[Orang Utan]

i urge you to read it. riddley walker too.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I remember the dialect but I didn't think it was a third of the book. Also, it's just phonetic dialect, it doesn't also involve made-up words; it's more like Trainspotting than Dave.

I did read one book in future dialect where I thought it was fine (Boxy An Star) but I can't remember any others. I haven't actually read Clockwork Orange I must admit.

It perhaps wasn't a third, but it was a fair wodge of it.