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[MiB81]

Scag Boys Irvine Welsh

[kjblack]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Brutal story and difficult language, but never read anything else quite like it.

[theraven1979]

Trying to get my way through Julian Cope's new book - don't get me wrong it's great but it really needs the time to take it on in one sitting. It's pretty intense.


Jim

[Boody]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Brutal story and difficult language, but never read anything else quite like it.

I read it a while back and found it grotesque. One of those books I finished just to prove to myself that I could. Then I saw it on one of those "50 hardest to read books". Just about summed it up for me.

[kjblack]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Brutal story and difficult language, but never read anything else quite like it.

I read it a while back and found it grotesque. One of those books I finished just to prove to myself that I could. Then I saw it on one of those "50 hardest to read books". Just about summed it up for me.

I was the same the first time I read it, Boody. Thought I was finished with it, but the edition I've got has an introduction by Harold Bloom (?) who admits that the first two times he tried to read it, he failed. He now thinks it's a classic. So, I read it again, and got a much better impression although there's still so much I don't understand. But some incredible writing, all the same.

With some books, though, you just have to admit defeat. I salute anyone who has finished Ulysses , never mind understood it.

[Boody]

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Brutal story and difficult language, but never read anything else quite like it.

I read it a while back and found it grotesque. One of those books I finished just to prove to myself that I could. Then I saw it on one of those "50 hardest to read books". Just about summed it up for me.

I was the same the first time I read it, Boody. Thought I was finished with it, but the edition I've got has an introduction by Harold Bloom (?) who admits that the first two times he tried to read it, he failed. He now thinks it's a classic. So, I read it again, and got a much better impression although there's still so much I don't understand. But some incredible writing, all the same.

With some books, though, you just have to admit defeat. I salute anyone who has finished Ulysses , never mind understood it.

Yes, I got a third of the way through Ulysses before I gave up. It might be a work of genius, but you know am really rather fond of things like sentences and punctuation. Call me old fashioned if you like....

[Bag Lady]

Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton

Excellent.

[elvisintheclouds]

Was made of paper if I remember correctly.

[Bag Lady]

Was made of paper if I remember correctly.

Words as well as pictures?

[Bag Lady]

Being Dead by Jim Crace

Beautifully written. Not something you can usually say when a book includes long descriptions of two people getting bludgeoned to death and their subsequent decay.

[Dorty]

I'm reading Catch-22 for the second time.

[Bag Lady]

I'm reading Catch-22 for the second time.