Lucoids reading pile

[Lucoid]

Way back near the beginning of this thread, Wavid asked me what was in my book pile. I couldn't remember, so I've done the sad thing of writing them down and bringing them to work with me to tell you all. At the time Wavid asked, there was:
Does My Bum Look Big in This, Arabella Weir
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Death in Midsummer & Other Stories, Yukio Mishima
Watching Me Watching You, Fay Weldon
Wicked Women, Fay Weldon
The Best of Saki
Hamlet
Free Fall, William Golding (can't remember if I've read it yet or not)
The Complete Talking Heads, Alan Bennett
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Will Self
and Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, which I've now started.

Since then, I've had another trip to the charity shop, and added the following to the pile:
Therese Raquin, Emile Zola
Nana, Emile Zola
Girls Night In (collection of modern women's short stories)
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra
Paperweight, Stephen Fry
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
and Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

So if you don't mind, I'm going to go and read a few more pages of Frankenstein before I have to get back to my desk.

Lucoid

[Wavid]

I have given you a new thread for this one, Lucoid, as I thought it might get lost otherwise. :)

A pretty exhaustive list though. That should keep you going for a while. How are you finding Frankenstein?

[amner]

Therese Raquin ... brilliant book. The basis of every hard-boiled or noir-y 'tec story ever. Brilliant.

Frankenstein, eh? One of me favourites.

Who wants a short story based on Frankenstein, then?

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[Colyngbourne]

Yep to the Frankenstein story, if you're offering!

The Best of Saki is just a great read. There's one about a bomb and another about a mongoose... *goes off to find Saki and starts reading*

Colyngbourne

[amner]

Ah, yes, I remember the mongoose one, definitely

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[Wavid]

I am intrigued, what happens to the mongoose?

[Colyngbourne]

Just looking in my Complete Saki, I can't even remember what the mongoose one was called but I do remember Gabriel-Ernest, The Easter Egg, Sredni Vashtar and wonderful Clovis stories, oh, and The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope.

Colyngbourne

[The Milk Oracle]

So having read Frankenstein, I hope you'll all be coming to Switzerland! :)

[Colyngbourne]

I love Switzerland - two of my son's godparents live there. We visited twice near Chur - both times in the winter - and saw Heidi's village from a distance.

Colyngbourne

[Wavid]

Who wants a short story based on Frankenstein, then?

Where is it then, amner? I am tense with anticipation.

[amner]

OK, OK, it's here (http://palimpsest.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=88)
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[Colyngbourne]

Wow! What a lot of stuff you packed in this! I loved the antecedent bits - Hannibal etc. I guess 'trephinned' is another version of 'trepanned' ? It's a really well constructed story - how long did it take you to think up/write?

Colyngbourne

[amner]

Most of last night and some this morning. Shedloads of typos though! And a fair trawl through my sources to see if I'd remembered everything correctly.

I did Anthropology at Uni, so yeah, trephinned is another way of spelling trepanned (both acceptable I think).
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[Colyngbourne]

I'm impressed. And laughed out loud at this
: little did he know it, but he was a Sumerian Berserker God, a devil of frightening and psychotic rages.

Today he was reading Wordsworth to a very bored L3.


Colyngbourne

[amner]

:D
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[Jam Rag]

I dont really get what the story is about. is it real or fantasy?

Can someone please explain.

[Lucoid]

Who cares ? Just enjoy it!

[Lucoid]

Hi y'all.

An update on my big pile: I've finished Frankenstein (a cracking read - no idea why I couldn't get into it whe I forst tried a couple of years ago) and have now started Therese Raquin. I actually first read this about eight years ago, but must have been too worried about the GCSEs I had just finished to concentrate on it properly as I didn't remember a thing about it. It's absolutely brilliant, a story of adultery and murder told at a slow, unimpassioned pace despite the incredibly strong emotions demonstrated by the characters. I'll review it properly when I've finished.

[skanky]

So having read Frankenstein, I hope you'll all be coming to Switzerland! :)

Whereabouts? I've spent quite a lot of time there recently. Doesn't look like I'll be getting there again, soon though.... :(

[youjustmightlikeit]

Frankenstein!!!!!

Are you serious? Awful.

I bet her hubby, Byron and co gave her a pat on the head after she'd read it to them.
'There there Mary, that was a good one, now go and put the tea on for the boys will you.'

'Scared? Filled with mortal dread? Of course Mary.'

(Later, after Mary had gone to bed....)

'Christ lads, sorry about that, i never knew she could be so fucking miserable. Now, who's heard the one about the......'

[Lucoid]

I liked it, so maybe I fit in the target audience.

Still, I do see your point...

[amner]

Way back near the beginning of this thread, Wavid asked me what was in my book pile. I couldn't remember, so I've done the sad thing of writing them down and bringing them to work with me to tell you all. At the time Wavid asked, there was:
Does My Bum Look Big in This, Arabella Weir
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Death in Midsummer & Other Stories, Yukio Mishima
Watching Me Watching You, Fay Weldon
Wicked Women, Fay Weldon
The Best of Saki
Hamlet
Free Fall, William Golding (can't remember if I've read it yet or not)
The Complete Talking Heads, Alan Bennett
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys, Will Self
and Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, which I've now started.

Since then, I've had another trip to the charity shop, and added the following to the pile:
Therese Raquin, Emile Zola
Nana, Emile Zola
Girls Night In (collection of modern women's short stories)
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra
Paperweight, Stephen Fry
When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro
and Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt

So if you don't mind, I'm going to go and read a few more pages of Frankenstein before I have to get back to my desk.

Lucoid

So, in an attempt to get Lucoid back to board, shall we take a guess on which of these she's read.

I'm guessing seven.

[NottyImp]

Yes, what did happen to Lucoid?

[Lucoid]

I'm here! I've been a busy bee of late (very little of it exciting) so haven't been able to catch up with the goings on here. My, isn't the new home page pretty?

Anything interesting going on or should I just take a random stab at which topics to read?

By the way, I gave up on the Hemingway, read both the Zolas, Frankenstein, Angela's Ashes, When We Were Orpahns and Bridget Jones's Diary, and haven't yet been arsed to pick the others up.

[amner]

Hey, I was one out.

Welcome back, Lucoid.

[Lucoid]

Oh, and I also remembered I read one of the Weldon's (Watching Me Watching You), so you were spot-on Amner.

Thanks for the welcome back, by the way, though I don't know if I'll be about much for a while.

[m.]

But you should... You have nowt better to do. :wink:

[amner]

You have nowt better to do

Are you sure you're Polish, m.?
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[m.]

Heh, my Polishness is so strong that it's simply reasonable to mix it with other influences. And I was only quoting the tag besides! :D