Title: After the Clearout - Part 2
Description: Another exciting installment
claudia - November 19, 2009 10:22 AM (GMT)
My three would be Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro.
Whose stupid idea was it to start this?
Opel - November 19, 2009 10:27 AM (GMT)
love ian mcewan but his early stuff was better.
Divvey - November 19, 2009 10:58 AM (GMT)
Hemingway. A writer.
A writer who wrote.
Then died.
Hemingway.
Mr. Marshall - November 19, 2009 12:14 PM (GMT)
Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure:
Fritter - November 19, 2009 12:30 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Nov 20 2009, 12:14 AM) |
Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure: |
I know where he lives, as it happens.
Ducky - November 19, 2009 12:37 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Fritter @ Nov 19 2009, 12:30 PM) |
| QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Nov 20 2009, 12:14 AM) | Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure: |
I know where he lives, as it happens.
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Primrose Hill?
Fritter - November 19, 2009 12:43 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Ducky @ Nov 20 2009, 12:37 AM) |
| QUOTE (Fritter @ Nov 19 2009, 12:30 PM) | | QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Nov 20 2009, 12:14 AM) | Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure: |
I know where he lives, as it happens.
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Primrose Hill?
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No. Maybe he was just visiting a friend, taking a pint of milk and suchlike round.
A Worried Man - November 19, 2009 12:47 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Nov 20 2009, 12:14 AM) |
Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure: |
You should be concerned. That is not an appropriate reaction to someone writing some books you don't much like.
Ducky - November 19, 2009 12:48 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Fritter @ Nov 19 2009, 12:43 PM) |
| QUOTE (Ducky @ Nov 20 2009, 12:37 AM) | | QUOTE (Fritter @ Nov 19 2009, 12:30 PM) | | QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Nov 20 2009, 12:14 AM) | Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure: |
I know where he lives, as it happens.
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Primrose Hill?
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No. Maybe he was just visiting a friend, taking a pint of milk and suchlike round.
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As you do.
I thought all succesful British writers of that particular genre lived on Primrose Hill? Oh well.....
Mr. Marshall - November 19, 2009 12:50 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (A Worried Man @ Nov 19 2009, 01:47 PM) |
| QUOTE (Mr. Marshall @ Nov 20 2009, 12:14 AM) | Graham Greene. And Uncle Gunter.
I'd like to smash Ian McEwan's face in. :unsure: |
You should be concerned. That is not an appropriate reaction to someone writing some books you don't much like.
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:lol:
NURSE!!!???!!!!!
the_shrander - November 19, 2009 01:24 PM (GMT)
Alan Garner, MR James and Hilary Mantel are three of my favourite writers ever, let alone on this list.
huh - November 19, 2009 01:29 PM (GMT)
My choices (Garner, Hardy, Joyce) prove that the best writing in the English language is local writing. B)
Acton High Street - November 19, 2009 01:40 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (huh @ Nov 19 2009, 02:29 PM) |
| My choices (Garner, Hardy, Joyce) prove that the best writing in the English language is local writing. B) |
Well, the West Country is one of the few parts of the UK where I don't have any local connections (we High Streets move around a lot) and I find Thomas Hardy's poetry to be incredibly universal, but I take your point.
Anyone having a quiet day in the office and feeling in need of a mediation on death and memory or two is advised to head here:
Link. huh - November 19, 2009 01:46 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Acton High Street @ Nov 19 2009, 02:40 PM) |
| QUOTE (huh @ Nov 19 2009, 02:29 PM) | | My choices (Garner, Hardy, Joyce) prove that the best writing in the English language is local writing. B) |
Well, the West Country is one of the few parts of the UK where I don't have any local connections (we High Streets move around a lot) and I find Thomas Hardy's poetry to be incredibly universal, but I take your point. Anyone having a quiet day in the office and feeling in need of a mediation on death and memory or two is advised to head here: Link. |
I suppose i was just thinking of their fiction; 'rooted in place' rather than local then, and not precluding the universal thereby ('scuse syntax).
Acton High Street - November 19, 2009 01:50 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (huh @ Nov 19 2009, 02:46 PM) |
| QUOTE (Acton High Street @ Nov 19 2009, 02:40 PM) | | QUOTE (huh @ Nov 19 2009, 02:29 PM) | | My choices (Garner, Hardy, Joyce) prove that the best writing in the English language is local writing. B) |
Well, the West Country is one of the few parts of the UK where I don't have any local connections (we High Streets move around a lot) and I find Thomas Hardy's poetry to be incredibly universal, but I take your point. Anyone having a quiet day in the office and feeling in need of a mediation on death and memory or two is advised to head here: Link. |
I suppose i was just thinking of their fiction; 'rooted in place' rather than local then, and not precluding the universal thereby ('scuse syntax).
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There was a interesting thread on similar lines once:
Link Orphistic - November 19, 2009 01:52 PM (GMT)
Forster, Hardy and Lawrence. Gutted there's no Enid Blyton.
New Profile Razor Unit - November 19, 2009 02:23 PM (GMT)
Another great list, and like the first one I have books by about half of them on my shelves.
Doh! I’ve realised now that I had three votes!
John Irving got the one I cast, when a novel of his has a bear in it - it means it is a good one. Plus reading Irving brings back good memories of the period when I discovered and devoured his output.
Holmes, and McEwan would have got the others.
Hornby and Greene get honourable mentions
Dice Man - November 22, 2009 01:27 PM (GMT)
Joyce. Sláinte!
And Greene & Hemingway.
Country Folk - November 22, 2009 01:49 PM (GMT)
Hemingway, Holmes & Alex Garland. Admittedly, the only Garland book that really satisfies is The Beach, but what a book, so he gets my third vote.
