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May 2019
10:06am, 13 May 2019
36,581 posts
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Diogenes
I don't hate him, but it was a long time since we met
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May 2019
10:12am, 13 May 2019
20,339 posts
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Lizzie W
I don't hate him, I read Kingdom by the Sea straight after Notes From A Small Island as BB referenced it, and found PT a bit of a contrast - didn't write with the joy/affection that BB had done. But read more PT later. Mr W rates him.
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May 2019
11:25am, 13 May 2019
12,564 posts
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Serendippily
That’s the one I read Greppers. He was happy and I was happy at the start and then as he got more and more bored, so did I
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May 2019
11:36am, 13 May 2019
10,399 posts
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Cerrertonia
His later books all come across as fairly misanthropic and pessimistic. Like his friend VS Naipaul, the earlier books are the ones to go for IMO.
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May 2019
10:18pm, 15 May 2019
36,637 posts
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Diogenes
I finished The Master & Margarita yesterday. I really don’t know what to say about it. I know some people absolutely love it. I can imagine that many people just don’t get it at all and might actively dislike it. Me, I’m ambivalent. There are aspects I like, and I can see it is clever and different, not to mention very funny at times, but overall I don’t think it works, it’s overall worth is less than the sum of its parts.
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May 2019
8:34am, 16 May 2019
36,643 posts
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Diogenes
What the above probably means is that I'm not cleverer enough to fully appreciate it, or else it's just not my cup of tea.
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May 2019
12:28pm, 16 May 2019
12,585 posts
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Serendippily
Latter Dio. I read it having never heard of it and enjoyed it as being a lot more chipper than expected. I read Tolstoy quite young as my mum studied Anna Karenina when she educated in her 40s. Enjoyed it but it was a lot more weighty and confusing on the diminutive names. Thinking about it that’s how come I read Mayor of Casterbridge and a whole lot of other Hardy when I was 10: it was lying about.
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May 2019
9:45pm, 16 May 2019
17,952 posts
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Columba
Not much enjoying the official book. Would really like to get back to Vol 2 of Karamazov, but I will plough on.
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May 2019
10:36am, 17 May 2019
60 posts
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Deinonychus
I loved the Master and Margarita, probably my second favourite Russian book, after The Idiot.
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May 2019
10:44am, 17 May 2019
39,555 posts
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McGoohan
After a wee break I'm back on the audio book of A Portrait of the A as a YM. Listened to the whole of Chapter 4 this morning. Two chapters to go and it's dragging a bit. It is very heavy on religion. Not so much happens but you get a lot about the shifting mental state of Stephen Dedalus particularly his relationship with the church.
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Acts of Minor Dissent
Sep 2024