tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post3684526619647109720..comments2024-03-29T14:45:32.326+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Verbivoracious Festschrift 3: The SyllabusDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-30141354276445395292015-05-12T23:32:59.128+12:002015-05-12T23:32:59.128+12:00I like book lists though. I know it's silly bu...I like book lists though. I know it's silly but I love them, the sense of 'getting thru'...But recently I read a book about what and how to read in the age of anxiety and the internet etc and the (he was an academic and well read) had himself been unable to read as he had when he was younger. (With that total rapt attention.)He advised to avoid lists, and to read by whim. But he went for a kind of 'educated' or informed Whim. He admitted his own longing to read all those books but, paradoxically, in his case, it was using e books that got him reading as for some reason he was thus less distracted. But he wanted the readers he was addressing to read slowly and take notes, as well as to re-read books. Both for the sheer joy of it. He warned against reading for 'edification' etc<br />This all came just in time for Ken's book as I slowed down, read it twice, and took notes. I now write more (pencil) notes on books. I have also read aloud a lot, if not the whole book, part of it. And by reading slowly I find I get more from a book although I read Brian Moore's 'The Robe' and that was a great read...<br /><br />But if you want strange and Kingdom of Alt, get load of this: 'The Song of the Earth' by Nissenson. [See if those Verbiroscity People know of it, they may not] I pulled it for my collection. As you and Benjamin say about wine, well, one keeps things unread. Or as Richard Ford 'comments' through his (I think great) book 'The Sportswriter' [which Geoff Dyer likes] there is no need to know everything - about the world, literature, one's wife or girlfriend or partner, or anything. It is the drive to know, the striving, and the sheer enjoyment of reading. If it is a chore, chuck it all out. The same applies to writing. No need to worry about it, if you make it you make it, if not, well, that's the way it is. Have as good a life as you can. <br /><br />I think that Roger exaggerates this 'how horrible the suburbs are' thing. I like him, he was my lecturer, but there is a danger of becoming too ivory tower, so, I like living in the suburbs. I've lived in them all my life and I love them. I am the Kingdom of Alt if I want to be. <br /><br />In fact I am going to his book launch, ceteris paribus, tommorrow... <br /><br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-9341966109146739272015-05-12T23:13:11.101+12:002015-05-12T23:13:11.101+12:00Christopher WunderLee
Jáchym Topol — City Sister ...Christopher WunderLee<br />Jáchym Topol — City Sister Silver [1994]<br />Alex Zucker [None of these]<br />Martin Amis — The Information [1995] [Unread but I have a copy]<br />Anthony Vacca<br />William H. Gass — The Tunnel [1995]<br />H.L. Hix [None of these, only part of a critical book by Gass]<br />Gilbert Sorrentino — Red the Fiend [1995] [Op cit]<br />Jenny Offill<br />Roberto Bolaño — Nazi Literature in the Americas [1996]<br />Adrian Carney [None of]<br />Geoff Dyer — Out of Sheer Rage [1997] [No but I love his critical writings]<br />Kathleen Heil<br />Alasdair Brotchie & Harry Mathews (eds.) — Oulipo Compendium [1998]<br />Jason Graff<br />Dubravka Ugrešić — The Museum of Unconditional Surrender [1998]<br />Jasmina Lukić<br />Percival Everett — Glyph [1999]<br />Tom Conoboy [None of]<br />Ali Smith — Other Stories and Other Stories [1999] [Read a meditative book on lit by her, it was good but not this book]<br />M.J. Nicholls<br />Ignácio de Loloya Brandão — Anonymous Celebrity [2002]<br />Ricki Aklon<br />Curtis White — Requiem [2002]<br />Trevor Dodge<br />Lucy Ellmann — Dot in the Universe [2003]<br />Ali Millar<br />Dubravka Ugrešić — Thank You for Not Reading [2003]<br />Ana Stanojevic<br />Roberto Bolaño — 2666 [2004]<br />Alex Cox<br />Meredith Brosnan — Mr. Dynamite [2004]<br />Jarleth L. Prendergast [None of those]<br />David Mitchell — Cloud Atlas [2004][Have - unread]<br />Stephen Mirabito<br />Steve Katz — Antonello’s Lion [2005]<br />W.C. Bamberger<br />Graham Rawle — Woman’s World [2005]<br />Michael Leong<br />Gilbert Adair — The Evadne Mount Trilogy [2006-2009]<br />Manny Rayner<br />Nicola Barker — Darkmans [2007]<br />Kinga Burger [None of these]<br />Lydia Davis — Varieties of Disturbance [2007] [Not this but I have her collected stories found by chance in a library]<br />Ali Millar<br />Lydie Salvayre — Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal [2007] [None of these]<br />Juliet Jacques <br />Adam Thirwell — Miss Herbert [2007]<br />Jack Ross [Possess unread as discussed]<br />Urmuz — Collected Works [2007]<br />Eddie Watkins<br />Marilyn Chin — Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen [2009]<br />Melanie Ho<br />Gabriel Josipovici — Only Joking [2010] [Have only read parts of a critical book he wrote]<br />Gianni Dane<br />Steven Moore — The Novel: An Alternative History [2010-2013]<br />Nathan Gaddis<br />Will Self — Walking to Hollywood [2010]<br />Richard Strachan<br />Charles Newman — In Partial Disgrace [2013]<br />Eric Lundgren<br />The Influences of Others<br />Igo Wodan [None of these]Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-67265587908132920482015-05-12T23:12:59.139+12:002015-05-12T23:12:59.139+12:00Silvia Barlaam [No]
Gilbert Sorrentino — Mulligan ...Silvia Barlaam [No]<br />Gilbert Sorrentino — Mulligan Stew [1979] [Some of his poems]<br />M.J. Nicholls [No]<br />Roald Dahl — The Twits [1980] [Read other things by him]<br />Harold Lad [No]<br />Donald Barthelme — Sixty Stories [1981] [Yes!!]<br />Lee Klein<br />Alexander Theroux — Darconville’s Cat [1981] <br />Steven Moore [None of that group]<br />Camilo José Cela — Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son [1982] [No - but I have 2 others by him]<br />Rosalyn Drexler<br />D. Keith Mano — Take Five [1982]<br />Nathan Gaddis<br />Thomas Bernhard — Woodcutters [1984]<br />Anonymous<br />Christine Brooke-Rose — Amalgamemnon [1984]<br />Ellen G. Friedman<br />Rikki Ducornet — The Stain [1984]<br />Michelle Ryan-Sautour<br />Christoph Meckel — The Figure on the Boundary Line [1984]<br />Ben Winch [None of these]<br />Milorad Pavić — Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition) [1984] [Have, but unread]<br />Alec Nevala-Lee<br />Milorad Pavić — Dictionary of the Khazars (Female Edition) [1984] [Op cit]<br />Silvia Barlaam [No]<br />Don Delillo — White Noise [1985] [Yes. Good.]<br />Barbara Melville [No]<br />Gilbert Sorrentino — Pack of Lies [Op cit] Trilogy [1985-1989]<br />Dick Witherspoon<br />Ronald Sukenick — In Form: Digressions on the Act of Fiction [1985]<br />Tom Willard<br />Marcel Bénabou — Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books [1986]<br />A. Writer<br />Michael Westlake — Imaginary Women [1987]<br />Michael Westlake<br />Nicholson Baker — The Mezzanine [1988]<br />M.J. Nicholls [None of those]<br />Italo Calvino — Six Memos for the Next Millennium [1988] [Op cit, not this one]<br />Daniel Levin Becker<br />David Markson — Wittgenstein’s Mistress [1988]<br />Christopher WunderLee<br />Janice Galloway — The Trick is to Keep Breathing [1989]<br />Gillian Devine<br />Jacques Roubaud — The Great Fire of London [1989]<br />Ian Monk<br />Felipe Alfau — Chromos [1990]<br />Sam Moss<br />Robert Alan Jamieson — A Day at the Office [1991]<br />Rodge Glass<br />Alasdair Gray — Poor Things [1992] [Started a book by him not this though]<br />Rodge Glass<br />W.G. Sebald — The Emigrants [1992] [Yes! Keen on Sebald]<br />Peter Bebergal<br />William Gaddis — A Frolic of His Own [1994][Possess but unread]<br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-14988346052585247332015-05-12T23:12:14.377+12:002015-05-12T23:12:14.377+12:00'...even Richard Taylor...' Lol.
Here are...'...even Richard Taylor...' Lol. <br />Here are those I have and, indeed, mostly I haven't. In two (?)posts... <br /><br />Jonathan Swift — A Modest Proposal [1729] [Have read]<br />Scott Beauchamp<br />Laurence Sterne — The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [1759] [Have read]<br />Silvia Barlaam<br />Xiao Hong (萧红) — The Field of Life and Death [1935] [Don't know it]<br />Wee Teck Lim<br />Louis-Ferdinand Céline — Death on the Installment Plan [1936] [I'm reading another book by him]<br />Paul John Adams [No]<br />Rayner Heppenstall — The Blaze of Noon [1939] [No]<br />Juliet Jacques [No]<br />James Joyce — Finnegans Wake [1939] [In parts]<br />Fionnuala Nic Mheanmán<br />Flann O’Brien — At Swim-Two-Birds [1939][Yes! Good book!]<br />Edwin Turner<br />Raymond Queneau — Exercises in Style [1947][Yes! Fun to read!]<br />Geoff Wilt <br />Boris Vian — Foam of the Daze [1947] [No]<br />Tosh Berman<br />Douglas Woolf — The Hypocritic Days [1955] [No]<br />Ammiel Alcalay<br />Henry Miller — Quiet Days in Clichy [1956] [Have read other books by HM]<br />G.N. Forester [No]<br />Muriel Spark — The Comforters [1957]<br />[Read one book by Spark, not that one] Kim Fay<br />Alexander Trocchi — Cain’s Book [1960] [I've seen it somewhere]<br />Gill Tasker<br />Michel Butor — Mobile [1962] [No]<br />John Trefry<br />Robert Pinget — The Inquisitory [1962][No]<br />???<br />B.S. Johnson — Omnibus [1964-1971] [Read others by Johnson]<br />Nicolas Tredell<br />Raymond Queneau — The Blue Flowers [1965][No]<br />Inez Hedges<br />Alan Burns — Celebrations [1967]<br />Joseph Andrew Darlington<br />Guillermo Cabrera Infante — Three Trapped Tigers [1967]<br />Pablo Medina<br />Macedonia Fernández — The Museum of Eterna’s Novel [1967]<br />Steve Penkevich [No to all those above]<br />Anna Kavan — Ice [1967] [Yes!]<br />Kristine Rabberman<br />J.M.G Le Clézio — Terra Amata [1967]<br />Keith Moser<br />Flann O’Brien — The Third Policeman [1967]<br />Alex Johnston<br />Ishmael Reed — The Freelance Pallbearers [1967]<br />Joseph McGrath<br />Christine Brooke-Rose — Between [1968]<br />Katarzyna Bartoszyńska<br />Anthony Earnshaw & Eric Thacker — Musrum [1968]<br />Kenneth Cox<br />Nicholas Mosley — Impossible Object [1968]<br />Shiva Rahbaran [No to the above.]<br />Vladimir Nabokov — Ada or Ardor [1969] [I have read about 6 Nabokov's but not that]<br />Rob Friel [No]<br />J.G. Ballard — The Atrocity Exhibition [1970] [Got keen on Ballard via Jack Ross and Scott Hamilton]<br />Rick McGrath<br />Pierre Guyotat — Eden Eden Eden [1970]<br />Peter Blundell<br />Raymond Federman — Double or Nothing [1971] [Put I have another book by him]<br />Lance Olsen<br />Hubert Selby Jnr. — The Room [1971][Not this but 'Last Exit to Brooklyn']<br />Georgina Holland<br />Stanley Crawford — Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine [1972]<br />Stephen Sparks<br />Tom Mallin — Erowina [1972]<br />Nate Dorr<br />Ann Quin — Tripticks [1972]<br />Francis Booth [None of the above group]<br />Guy Davenport — Taitlin! [1974] [Read his essays and some poems of]<br />Eric Byrd<br />Lawrence Durrell — The Avignon Quintet [1974-1985] <br />Nadine Mainard<br />Chrisine Brooke-Rose — Thru [1975]<br />David Detrich [None of these]<br />Georges Perec — An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris [1975] {Have read other books by Perec]<br />Lauren Elkin<br />Fernando del Paso — Palinuro of Mexico [1976]<br />Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado<br />Coleman Dowell — Island People [1976]<br />Eugene H. Hayworth<br />Raymond Federman — Take It or Leave It [1976]No - the one I have is 'Two Fold Vibration]<br />Steve Katz<br />Italo Calvino — If on a winter’s night a traveller [1979] [Started it once, having read about 6 of his other books]<br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-29646929195025723492015-05-12T22:42:59.442+12:002015-05-12T22:42:59.442+12:00I have that book by Thirlwell. I added it to my co...I have that book by Thirlwell. I added it to my collection as I was sorting those books out I had for sale to it. But I hadn't even looked at it, I'd forgotten your Blog post and my own comment on it. I did Wiki it and kept it along with a lot of other bizarre stuff...Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-53938288829648042812015-05-12T15:57:22.102+12:002015-05-12T15:57:22.102+12:00I found that I'd read about a quarter of the b...I found that I'd read about a quarter of the books listed, and heard of about half.<br /><br />It just goes to show how much wacked-out material there is out there!Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-3143715557897412022015-05-12T15:51:15.314+12:002015-05-12T15:51:15.314+12:00That is a truly incredible list. I just wish I had...That is a truly incredible list. I just wish I had more time to read . . . everything on this list. But I will try and go back and just pick one work at random.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com