What you reading then eh ?
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This be my latest tome..
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Books. The reading of . Now .
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Re: Books. The reading of . Now .
Recently I am mostly reading Shirley Jackson's novels and short stories, interspersed with some of Georges Simenon's 'Maigret' novels, and 'Ghost Milk' by Iain Sinclair. However, this evening I was reading my PhD thesis.
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Re: Books. The reading of . Now .
Simenon Maigret novels are simple mysteries, badly-written.
He was too busy fucking women - he bragged about fucking 100's - to write proper.
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Jackson is excellent. Short story, "The Lottery" is classic and of course,the novel, "haunting of Hill House".
He was too busy fucking women - he bragged about fucking 100's - to write proper.
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Jackson is excellent. Short story, "The Lottery" is classic and of course,the novel, "haunting of Hill House".
Re: Books. The reading of . Now .
It's funny with Simenon's novels; I sort of think 'this is crap' as I'm reading them, but they sort of stay with me. Plus they're very short so only take a couple of hours.Mississippi Blind Child Assburn wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:30 am Simenon Maigret novels are simple mysteries, badly-written.
He was too busy fucking women - he bragged about fucking 100's - to write proper.
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Jackson is excellent. Short story, "The Lottery" is classic and of course,the novel, "haunting of Hill House".
Jackson's novel 'Hangsaman' is also excellent; less so 'The Bird's Nest' which goes on a bit.
Re: Books. The reading of . Now .
We never had Janet and John; it was Dick and Dora with us, with hilarious results. But I could read fluently long before I went to school and got through that series like a dose of salts, so was allowed to bring library books in and read them instead.