Hello everybody. Sorry for the temporary hiatus, but I do have a life offscreen you know. Obviously, I've been mourning Michael Foot.
On the agenda today - meetings, teaching and perhaps even a tiny bit of research. Or proofreading. Or working out where to store all the books I've bought. The latest lot comprise the latest Delillo, Point Omega which I'm hoping is a return to form, David Seed's interesting-looking American Science Fiction and the Cold War (cheaper by £8 in a bookshop than on Amazon), a French version of The Death of King Arthur (1237, in translation - medieval French is a stretch for me) and two pieces of interesting Victorian melodrama: Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl and a collection of Late Victorian Gothic Tales, which should be interesting rather than good because that really was the arse-end of the Gothic craze (if you want the real thing, try The Mysteries of Udolpho or Vathek).
3 comments:
I read Cosmopolis by Delillo. I say read, I gave it away for free after about 20 pages. It was horrible and clunky. Everything just left me feeling a bit cold. Nothing grabbed me about it.
It was a shame because I was aiming to use Cosmopolis as my inroads into being brave enough to pick up Underworld but now I'm a bit put off.
Ewar has lent me a few books today too, so thanks to Ewar (whoever he is).
Everything past Underworld has been a bit of a let down. Underworld and White Noise(and a few others - ask Vole) are truly superb though.
Also, Underworld is big but it isn't particularly difficult. Go on, give it a go.
Ben speaks the truth. Post-Underworld: going through the motions. Most stuff before that: brilliant. I particularly like Endzone and Mao II.
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