What are you reading tonight?

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:03 pm

Upside Tango, soundtrack by Kate Bush.

All together now

Heeeeethcleeefff, its me, your Cathy, I've come hoooweowm....

Lofthouse Lower · Post by **Lofthouse Lower** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:27 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
thebish wrote:the missus is currently reaing this: (well - listening to the audio-book version)

Why? (not why is she reading it, but why not just write a zombie novel without involving a long established classic work of fiction that's also a record of the life and times of the author?) What's next up, Wuthering Heights beyond the grave, Far from the madding shroud, Oliver with a Twist?

Ever heard of subverting a genre?

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:31 pm

Lofthouse Lower wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:
thebish wrote:the missus is currently reaing this: (well - listening to the audio-book version)

Why? (not why is she reading it, but why not just write a zombie novel without involving a long established classic work of fiction that's also a record of the life and times of the author?) What's next up, Wuthering Heights beyond the grave, Far from the madding shroud, Oliver with a Twist?
Ever heard of subverting a genre?

Aye, it works. That's why I can't stand it.

Lofthouse Lower · Post by **Lofthouse Lower** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:34 pm

It's a brilliant take on the classical novel. Really entertaining.

I bet if you gave it a try you'd like it, eventually, once you allowed yourself.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:41 pm

Lofthouse Lower wrote:It's a brilliant take on the classical novel. Really entertaining.
I bet if you gave it a try you'd like it, eventually, once you allowed yourself.

Aye, that's what everybody says when somebody else doesn't agree with them. Salesmen love that approach. Isn't subverting a genre primarily designed to pxxs people off anyway?

Lofthouse Lower · Post by **Lofthouse Lower** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:52 pm

No, it's designed to provide a new angle to a line of traditional thought.....

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:56 pm

I thought it was to make a fast buck. But I could be persuaded by the artistic merit argument...

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:01 pm

Lofthouse Lower wrote:No, it's designed to provide a new angle to a line of traditional thought.....

Ah, like historical novels aren't good enough as they stand, they need vampires? Okay, fair enough. I was quite happy enough with Bram Stokers Dracula and Jane Austen's mystery and romance efforts, but, if a new angle insists they need each other, Amen. Must admit, it all sounds very X Box to me. Is there a game due?

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:13 pm

I really cannot understand the annoyance. Has anyone deleted the original TD? Is it gone? Or can you still read it happy in its authenticity, and others read a different take on it and enjoy that too?

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:17 pm

Just a bit of mockery of the literary canon...

and if it can't stand mockery it ain't much of a canon...

Haven't read it - but sounds mischievous...

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:03 pm

Prufrock wrote:I really cannot understand the annoyance. Has anyone deleted the original TD? Is it gone? Or can you still read it happy in its authenticity, and others read a different take on it and enjoy that too?

for the record - the missus has read both!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:30 pm

Not sure why "annoyance" has to be assumed at a comment? There I was enjoying a little verbal ping-pong with Dracula's relation, and suddenly the room's full of mallet and stake weilders with great bunches of garlic round necks. Jane Austen would turn over in her grave,....o,er, I mean she'd get an attack of the vapours or something. Oh, roll on daylight.

Still don't see why authors need to fix things that aren't broke though....as the saying goes.

CAPSLOCK · Post by **CAPSLOCK** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:33 pm

William the White wrote:Just a bit of mockery of the literary canon...

and if it can't stand mockery it ain't much of a canon...

Haven't read it - but sounds mischievous...

50 years on, some fcuker remakes District9 without prawns and spaceships and I'll be hunting them down

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:03 am

CAPSLOCK wrote:
William the White wrote:Just a bit of mockery of the literary canon...

and if it can't stand mockery it ain't much of a canon...

Haven't read it - but sounds mischievous...
50 years on, some fcuker remakes District9 without prawns and spaceships and I'll be hunting them down

Yep - the true subversion is that 50 years on someone makes District9 into a decent film... and neither of us will be alive to celebrate it... shame...

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:13 am

Lord Kangana wrote:Upside Tango, soundtrack by Kate Bush.

All together now

Heeeeethcleeefff, its me, your Cathy, I've come hoooweowm....

Oh, so them's the words are they?? I had 'em down for something completely different for the last 30 years or whatever

Il Pirate · Post by **Il Pirate** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:31 pm

Just bought David Starkey's 'Henry' & 5 plays by Chekhov. Should keep me busy..........

thebish · Post by **thebish** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:51 pm

Il Pirate wrote:Just bought David Starkey's 'Henry' & 5 plays by Chekhov. Should keep me busy..........

doesn't it just make you want to smack starkey though?

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:54 pm

Il Pirate wrote:Just bought David Starkey's 'Henry' & 5 plays by Chekhov. Should keep me busy..........

Oh yeah, Starkey & Hutch?!

Harry Genshaw · Post by **Harry Genshaw** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:27 pm

Kolyma tales by Shalamov. I read Gulag a few years ago and this gives a good first person experience. Depressing stuff at times mind

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:32 pm

thebish wrote:
Il Pirate wrote:Just bought David Starkey's 'Henry' & 5 plays by Chekhov. Should keep me busy..........

doesn't it just make you want to smack starkey though?

Daily Mail's favourite historian. Brian Sewell of the history industry... Smack too kind...

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