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06-13-2008, 05:24 PM | #514 (permalink) |
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Not a classic at all and you needn't read it before you die. It's sadomasochistic softcore porn in novel form.
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06-13-2008, 05:36 PM | #515 (permalink) |
daddy don't
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I still have never finished 'Naked Lunch' if I'm honest. I'm all for surrealism but W.B's cut-and-paste approach to the structure kind of irritated me. You can't argue with his wielding of the language though. I know the narrative can reputedly be read in any order, has anyone tried this? But it's time I gave it another go.
Currently reading: James Joyce - 'Portait Of the Artist As A Young Man' - my first Joyce since school, really compelling William K.Massie - 'Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War' - a real monster but just narrative history at it's best. Now finally I can talk to my dad about Otto Von Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian War and make him proud of his underachieving son. |
06-21-2008, 06:40 PM | #516 (permalink) | ||
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A Clockwork Orange for the 5th time, nadsat has become a second language for me.
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