05 Aug 09
Originally posted by WulebgrTrue, Beckett is a comic writer. Perhaps Cioran is closer to the mark.
I suspect so; although being of a somewhat diseased mind, I find both rather cheery, and make it a habit during such reading to be well soused and have plenty of loaded weapons about.
Is McCarthy relentlessly humourless or is there a vein of humour darkly glinting there? I suspect so from the film I saw.
08 Aug 09
Originally posted by Bosse de NageJust found my tattered copy of The Crossing, not tattered by my reading, but by the one that gave it to me because he found it too bleak. Perhaps I'll read it and get back to you.
True, Beckett is a comic writer. Perhaps Cioran is closer to the mark.
Is McCarthy relentlessly humourless or is there a vein of humour darkly glinting there? I suspect so from the film I saw.
15 Aug 09
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Originally posted by WulebgrNope but so actually Anthem is the only decent thing Ayn Rand wrote; I loved The Fountainhead in high school but find it kind of silly now, I haven't read We The Living and Atlas Shrugged is the reason why we have the phrase TL;DR.
I waded through Atlas Shrugged, which is far better writing than The Anthem, which has as its only virtue its brevity--my son and I both read his copy on the flight from Spokane to Denver when his teacher assigned the text in a senior literature class. I won't go into the absurdity of spending three weeks on this brief tract.
Ayn Rand's book nd her politics reprehensible, what reason do I have for diving into The Fountainhead?
@OP:
Some of my favourite novels include "ZAMM" (if we've decided it's a novel); its sequel, "Lila"; both of David Foster Wallace's novels ("The Broom of the System" is more straight-up entertaining and in some ways more ballsy, while from a variety of potential points of view "Infinite Jest" is the most amazing prose-chunk of any sort I've read); Neal Stephenson's "The Big U" and "Zodiac"; the novel by Jonathan Swift whose TL;DR title is often shortened to "Gulliver's Travels".