The Cranes That Build The Cranes - by Jeremy Dyson - July 2024 Book Group discussion thread
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29 Jul
6:52pm, 29 Jul 2024
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Little Nemo
Oh, seems like I'm the only one who liked it! Yet again I'm left to wonder if I'm a total weirdo 
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30 Jul
8:12pm, 30 Jul 2024
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Columba
Maybe I should read it after all, @Little Nemo , as there've been other occasions when you and I liked something which no-one else seemed to.
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30 Jul
8:31pm, 30 Jul 2024
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Little Nemo
I'd be happy to post my copy to you if you like? I got it 2nd hand so I wouldn't need it back.
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3 Aug
3:01pm, 3 Aug 2024
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Columba
Thank you @Little Nemo , - very kind - I'll mail you my address.
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25 Aug
9:56pm, 25 Aug 2024
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Columba
Mixed feelings. After the first two stories I nearly gave up. After the third one, The Challenge Club, I nearly gave up even more, partly because it was what a friend of mine used to call "bad medicine" (meaning, regardless of whether it was convincing, illuminating, well written etc., it left the reader feeling bad). But it did have a "happy ending" and I persisted, and found the rest of them both interesting and gripping. But not so as to look for other works by the same author. Why on earth does it have the title it has? Nothing in it about cranes, and nothing in it that I can detect about anything building anything else. |
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26 Aug
8:33am, 26 Aug 2024
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Little Nemo
Glad you enjoyed at least a bit of it. I agree with you about the title!
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26 Aug
10:45am, 26 Aug 2024
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fetcheveryone
Maybe they are stories that helped build other stories.
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27 Aug
8:45pm, 27 Aug 2024
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Columba
I was looking for some sort of obscure explanation like that; but it is indeed very obscure.
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6 Sep
10:40am, 6 Sep 2024
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LindsD
As I said on the main thread, I was really enjoying this, although I don't really like short stories as a rule. But then it became apparent that only LN had liked it, and I started to doubt myself #fickle #peerpressure #sorryLN I did like it overall, though. I liked the menace and the feeling that something wasn't right. There were a couple of stories that I found too icky - Come April was nasty. Actually, looking at the list, that was the only one I disliked. I liked all the others. Some were very overwritten, but I just skipped over that. Thanks for suggesting, Fetch. I wouldn't have read it otherwise. I gave it an 8. |
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6 Sep
10:43am, 6 Sep 2024
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LindsD
Me and LN in the weirdos club with Columba as guest member. I think the title might refer to how do cranes get built, without cranes? Who built the first one? But I could be wrong. |
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