O/T Fit You Reading 3

[57vintage]

My inbox tells me that the four ?elements? yarns by our pal John Boyne is due for publication as a single volume.

I like the tidy, compendium nature of that, but the slow, measured release of the four parts, where the inter-connections were unexpected jolts to the system, won?t be replicated for those who read it as a single narrative. The months of separation as the publisher slow-released them allowed them to be treated as discrete stories until, for example, the feisty Irish woman revealed that she was a trainee pilot and that her dad was a right crunt.

The way Boyne tied it all together, with each volume still able to stand alone, is utter ****ing genius.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FCXJMYWD?ref_=quick_view_ref_tag&dplnkId=550a4500-2ad3-4ee1-9607-489273dbd247&nodl=1

[57vintage]

I binge-listened to Nicholls’s You Are Here during frequent public transport outings recently. I’ve read a good portion of his back catalogue ana. A terrific writer.

This is in today’s Scotsman, but seems to have been franchised from the i paper or website. Great recommendations.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/five-best-love-stories-david-nicholls-3825445?srsltid=AfmBOopuB90ELUA1DMG5Bpadwg73sCUMGOEctSn***uRYSUjAqVkVytm

[TheDeeDon]

My inbox tells me that the four ?elements? yarns by our pal John Boyne is due for publication as a single volume.

I like the tidy, compendium nature of that, but the slow, measured release of the four parts, where the inter-connections were unexpected jolts to the system, won?t be replicated for those who read it as a single narrative. The months of separation as the publisher slow-released them allowed them to be treated as discrete stories until, for example, the feisty Irish woman revealed that she was a trainee pilot and that her dad was a right crunt.

The way Boyne tied it all together, with each volume still able to stand alone, is utter ****ing genius.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FCXJMY...3dbd247&nodl=1

When I finished Air last week, I closed the book and thought that these four books are going to be released together at some point.

At least in a single volume you won't have a gype like me reading the second part first.
Whilst I don't think it spoiled my enjoyment of it in any way, going 2,1,3 & 4. And which proves they can be enjoyed as individual books, it would be a great book to read all the way through from start to finish.

[TheDeeDon]

I binge-listened to Nicholls?s You Are Here during frequent public transport outings recently. I?ve read a good portion of his back catalogue ana. A terrific writer.

This is in today?s Scotsman, but seems to have been franchised from the i paper or website. Great recommendations.

https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/fi...uRYSUjAqVkVytm

I've read Nicholls works. I think Starter for Ten was his first one and the film version isn't bad either.

I've never read any Shakespeare, maybe I should try him at some point.

I have a copy of Far From The Madding Crowd in my bookshelf, with a bookmark in it around half way through. I can't quite remember why it was left unfinished, as I don't mind Hardy as a writer.

[57vintage]

I typed out a lengthy reply TDD min, and when I tried to post it, Sibo the Ctnu had timed it out.

What a fcuking dick.

[57vintage]

Cold Comfort Farm junked, unfinished. Dated humour, contrived joke characters, 1930s middle class smugness.

A call from the editor, who turned down my earlier offer to review Kevin Rowland’s Bless Me Father, to review it after all, has pushed a compendium of Chekov short stories and JF Hendrie’s Fernie Brae down the priority list.

I’ve run out of Spotify listening time in finishing the Nicholls audiobook (4/5), and I’m still in the early stages of Toibin’s Thomas Mann yarn. I’m catching up on a podcast backlog due to Spotify’s tight-fistedness.