Dec 2016
9:06am, 12 Dec 2016
13,760 posts
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Dr TinselD
((LN)) I'm feeling like that about BTOOT. I like it, but it's easy to put down. So I do. |
Dec 2016
6:10pm, 12 Dec 2016
10,429 posts
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Chrisull
That's my problem with book groups. I only tend to pick up the books that grab or appeal to me. Otherwise they never get started :-). And what happens about short stories? Just finished Ted Chiang's the story of your life, and it is weightless, sublime, profound, sad. 55 pages, this is economy. No plot (other than aliens landing on earth), but enough ideas about language, relationships, physics, the impossibility of communication to last a lifetime. Pretty much unfilmable, that's why half of Arrival isn't in the book, but to be fair they made a decentish attempt, but again it's why literature transcends cinema. Up there with Carver's a small good thing or Danilo Kis's the encyclopaedia of the dead. |
Dec 2016
6:41pm, 12 Dec 2016
814 posts
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beebop
I want to buy this book, but I don't like the covers currently available - big close ups of Amy Adams or Jeremy Renner. Nothing against either of them, but could they not have gone with the alien ship if they wanted a film tie-in? The stories look interesting, and I want to see how The Story of Your Life compares with the film. I'll end up on the second-hand websites, which will not benefit the author...
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Dec 2016
6:51pm, 12 Dec 2016
19,301 posts
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Diogenes
I loved BTOOT. Couldn't get The Passion as yet so am reading Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, as previously mentioned. The Golden Notebook is a brilliant book: It's not an always an easy read (and easy to dislike, I suspect), but clearly the work of an absolute genius. I am not smart enough to understand it completely, or a good enough writer to do it justice in review. The intellect and skill required to create TGN is (to my mind) simply startling. |
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Dec 2016
7:28pm, 12 Dec 2016
817 posts
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beebop
I've got BTOOT on my read soon pile - thanks again to GregP for passing on his copy:-) - and I also gave in to peer pressure and have a copy of TWoFS waiting. I'm timed out of the conversations, but I'm looking forward to them.
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Dec 2016
7:46pm, 12 Dec 2016
10,430 posts
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Chrisull
I got the Chiang one from Waterstones with this suitably abstract cover: waterstones.com |
Dec 2016
8:04pm, 12 Dec 2016
828 posts
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Serenmerrily
Hey Dio do you want my copy of the Passion? You are welcome to it if you want it fmail me your address. Offer applies to everyone obvs
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Dec 2016
8:13pm, 12 Dec 2016
27,071 posts
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McGoohan
Damn. I meant to add Ted Chiangmai to my Christmas wish list.
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Dec 2016
11:43pm, 12 Dec 2016
11,948 posts
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Columba
I read TGN many years ago Dio, but don't remember being that struck with it. Maybe I should re-read.
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Dec 2016
12:17am, 13 Dec 2016
27,075 posts
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McGoohan
Autocorrect-a-rama? Chiangmai?
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