Books I'd Recommend
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Saul,
Sebald used to live about 100 yards from my parent's house in Poringland in Norfolk and used to give them free copies of his books. He died in a car crash on the Lowestoft Road a few years ago, as a result of a heart attack. His daughter, who was with him in the car at the time, was badly injured. Sebald was originally a German lecturer at the UEA.
Never really got into his stuff though; it sits uneasily (IMO) between fiction and autobiography.
Sebald used to live about 100 yards from my parent's house in Poringland in Norfolk and used to give them free copies of his books. He died in a car crash on the Lowestoft Road a few years ago, as a result of a heart attack. His daughter, who was with him in the car at the time, was badly injured. Sebald was originally a German lecturer at the UEA.
Never really got into his stuff though; it sits uneasily (IMO) between fiction and autobiography.
Cameron, did you not like The Rings of Saturn? That's a stroll round your neck of the woods isn't it?
Or am I getting my Norfolks and Suffolks mixed up? Apologies if so. (And just how serious a misdemeanour is that?)
David
Or am I getting my Norfolks and Suffolks mixed up? Apologies if so. (And just how serious a misdemeanour is that?)
David
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Sorry David - didn't notice this post.
To be honest, I've only ever dipped into his books so I can't pretend to have anything authoritative to say about them. Rings of Saturn is mainly set in Suffolk I think - rather than Norfolk. (A fictional walking tour - it says in the blurb.)
Suffolk, of course, doesn't have a football team but it does have a good brewery (Adnams).
Cam
To be honest, I've only ever dipped into his books so I can't pretend to have anything authoritative to say about them. Rings of Saturn is mainly set in Suffolk I think - rather than Norfolk. (A fictional walking tour - it says in the blurb.)
Suffolk, of course, doesn't have a football team but it does have a good brewery (Adnams).
Cam
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the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera
beutifull both in its depiction of real life and the amsuing philisophical ramblings
beutifull both in its depiction of real life and the amsuing philisophical ramblings
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[quote="Saul"]
'How could I forget "A Confederacy of Dunces", I just hope the film they're supposed to be making isn't rubbish'.
Wow! a film, I'm praying it does the book justice, I love the book and it would upset me if the film was rubbish. I wonder who would play Ignatius?
benjy
'How could I forget "A Confederacy of Dunces", I just hope the film they're supposed to be making isn't rubbish'.
Wow! a film, I'm praying it does the book justice, I love the book and it would upset me if the film was rubbish. I wonder who would play Ignatius?
benjy
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Blasphemy!!Saul wrote:Ah, so it is. I had to read this for uni and thought it was amazing. Such a layered piece of writing. Haunting. No-one else in the seminar seemed to agree with me though. Haven't read much else by Swift should try to. The film version is truly dire, but so are most literary adaptations with Irons in
(c.f. Lolita)
What's wrong with Jeremy? I actually prefer the Irons version of Lolita.
I think everyone should read something by Hermann Hesse. It's difficult to choose between Steppenwolf and Narzziss and Goldmund. So read both.
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Haha! Each to their own etc.
I don't like the Kubrick version, there's too much humour and obscurity. Which is odd because I love most of Kubrick's work. I agree with you about re-makes. 9 times out of 10 they are much worse than the original, but this time I actually prefer it because I thought Irons played Humbert Humbert as I read him in the book.
I don't like the Kubrick version, there's too much humour and obscurity. Which is odd because I love most of Kubrick's work. I agree with you about re-makes. 9 times out of 10 they are much worse than the original, but this time I actually prefer it because I thought Irons played Humbert Humbert as I read him in the book.
I also pefer Irons's Humbert. I love Kubrick, but his Lolita just wasn't quite what I was hoping for.
n.b. I'm not sure why, but it seems to me more acceptable to remake a movie which was itself a literary adaptation than to remake a movie which wasn't.
n.b. I'm not sure why, but it seems to me more acceptable to remake a movie which was itself a literary adaptation than to remake a movie which wasn't.
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Saul
I went out to take a photo of WG Sebald's grave this afternoon and we have now added it to the site.
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/other_writers.htm
By strange coincidence, he is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's church where my sister was married in 1987 and which event/location inspired me to write this poem (during my Hardyesque period):
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycam ... Start.html
See the church:
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/framin ... amearl.htm
I went out to take a photo of WG Sebald's grave this afternoon and we have now added it to the site.
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/other_writers.htm
By strange coincidence, he is buried in the churchyard of St Andrew's church where my sister was married in 1987 and which event/location inspired me to write this poem (during my Hardyesque period):
http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/poemsbycam ... Start.html
See the church:
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/framin ... amearl.htm