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Lenon

Lenon

Typically for a native of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, I have rooms full of books and other indoor entertainments, and mildew creeping up from the bottoms of my feet to my knees. Since everyone here is the same, no one mentions my partial greenness, unless they are expressing admiration.
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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Yes, a very cold customer. It's a shame she never wrote "Ripley's Christmas.". Now that would cure the diabetic holiday hangover. Now you should read "The Talented...". Much tarter than the movie.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, Ripley's Game - that's a good one.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Dear, dear, dear. I'm afraid I'd be obliged to behead you.

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  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    (also eavesreading)

    All of them. Go the bookshop and buy 'em all. Preferably with the Phiz or other original illustrations, and while you're there pick up a bio or two or three.

    Ditto to Tinky's comments.

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    (eavesreading)

    Oh, yes, "Our Mutual Friend", most definitely. A true rival to "Bleak House", and funnier in a very macabre sort of way. It's full of greed, sexual obsession, murder and madness. (Is this Dickens I'm talking about? Yes!)

    Good grief, old friend, if you're working your way through Dickens, surely you belong in the fold at AA? We've got Wodehouse, Holmes and Wuthering Heights ahead.

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  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I'd say "Bleak House", I think, and Tinky might also suggest "Our Mutual Friend": at any rate, I think those dark London fables of the second half of his career are some of the best novels anyone ever wrote. You're quite thoroughly Dickensed now, and since I myself have carefully saved one -- Dombey -- unread for some blessed later date, I don't really have recommendations. "Dorrit", should you ever get to it, is a sort of fever dream that entirely abandons all pretense of realism for long stretches -- it'd be postmodern if it weren't so very Victorian -- if that interests you.

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  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    It's not a perfect novel, not quite his best, but it has that unmistakable energy of a great writer's almost-autobiographical fiction. I remember thinking the same thing about the devastating "Mill on the Floss" when I read it last year.

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  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    And are you really reading Dickens' favourite child? Life will never be quite as normal again.

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  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    An outside-world friend keeps pushing that Tin Drum of yours in my direction; I'd examine it if not for the faint worry that it'll explode in my face.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    And how soon will you have worked your way through all of Dickens? That's not one of my favourites you're reading, but it certainly is one of Tinky's.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anamaria Z

    Anamaria Z says

    How fare? Welfare. Farewell. Pretty good! :D

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, I've read it at least three times; we're doing it an AA right now. It's one of my favourite books of all time!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    He's an Hinfant Phenomenon.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Thank you! (About the reviews). I enjoy putting thoughts about a book "to paper" after I read it; helps me process what I've just read. I used to go on and on, but realized after a while short and sweet is best. Frabjous is brilliant, and he's only nine years old. Did you know?

    I think you're right about "Freedom", and I want to go back and re-read "The Corrections" later in the year to compare and contrast.

    Capote is one of my favorite writers, although I know he's not a Great Writer (except in the case of "In Cold Blood"). But he's a good, entertaining writer, and he's always rewarded my going back to re-read him. "Breakfast" is very, very good, too.

    Yes, the brilliance of some writers is humbling and inspiring. Thank God for them!

    Still haven't gotten to Graham Swift. Enjoy!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Liked "In Cold Blood", did you? I think it's amazing. And I looooooved "Freedom" -- finished it last night. I was so glad it ended happily -- by the end, I loved them all too much to have been able to stand it any other way. Reading the idiotic Shelfari reviews about how "unlikeable" and "unsympathetic" the characters made my jaw drop and set off an apoplectic seizure, but that's what happens whenever I read those things.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    I'm glad to see you enjoyed your stay at the first Bleak House -- even if not without reservations. But now, sir, the many claims put upon me by my close sympathy with and long standing charity towards the people of Borrioboola-Gha call me to my work. Caddy? Where are you, Caddy?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    I take it that means you liked it! (checks your profile page) Ah, yes. I'm so glad you did. And I'm now reading "Freedom" and it's terrific! So readable, and so true-to-life it's wince-inducing at times. I can't imagine how it's all going to turn out.

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, and while you're at Bleak House would you mind asking if I can borrow a cup of sugar?

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  • Frabjous Day

    Frabjous Day says

    Bleak House! Say hello to wonderful old Miss Flite from me -- and that I still remember the names of her birds.

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  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Oh, is it an Oprah pick? I thought there was bad blood betwixt them after "The Corrections" - didn't he refuse to let her put it on her book club? I think so. Well, nice to know they've kissed and made up! (She doesn't have bad taste in books -- who else could push Faulkner on an unsuspecting American public?

    Esther. Well, you'll see. It's a thick book, and happiness, as they say, writes in white ink.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )

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