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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2004 13:48:36 GMT
  Published yesterday and today. Bought from Waterstone's this morning. I am SO not sleeping tonight. |
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Post by klee on Sept 2, 2004 14:06:59 GMT
New Kate Atkinson?
Wow!
Not the End of the World was my favourite Christmas book this year. And I don't care what anyone says, Emotionally Weird is a work of idiosyncratic marvellousness.
That's me overspending at the weekend then.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2004 14:28:37 GMT
I know! It just crept into the shops. Nobody told me it existed until I saw it in Waterstone's. It's also meant to have a lot more in common with Not the End of the World - four main plots with characters that interact at different times of each others' lives - rather than the first person giddiness of her first three. In short, woo.
(Also, yes, Emotionally Weird is an absolute marvel. And remember, if you stand on the table you can touch the ceiling - this is secret to the meaning of life.)
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Post by klee on Sept 2, 2004 14:39:01 GMT
Way better than 42.
The sequence at the student party is one of my favourite set pieces in a novel . . . ever.
I do think Flum should be forced (if he has not already) to read this novel, given that its heroine has red hair and approached Nicola GA levels of aceness.
Wasn't so keen on the bits on the island though.
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Post by smellslikesomeghost on Sept 2, 2004 18:24:30 GMT
New Kate Atkinson? Wow! Not the End of the World was my favourite Christmas book this year. And I don't care what anyone says, Emotionally Weird is a work of idiosyncratic marvellousness. That's me overspending at the weekend then. O I was so disappointed by Not the end of the world. I think Kate Atkinson is brilliant in flashes, I adored the first one(behind the scenes of the museum?) and have liked each successor progressively less. I retain hope though and look forward to reading this. |
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Post by elmsyrup on Sept 3, 2004 1:26:19 GMT
Kate Atkinson is so magic. That's me excited then! But I don't get paid for another three weeks. I was thinking of having an Amazon splurge after that. I shall add it to my list.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2004 15:28:12 GMT
Wasn't so keen on the bits on the island though. I mostly objected to them because they weren't in a very nice font. PS: Chapters 2 and 3 of Case Histories are quite possibly the best things she has ever, ever written. |
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Post by klee on Sept 3, 2004 15:32:17 GMT
Getting this tomorrow.
Getting this and Bjork's new album tomorrow.
Stuff My Name is Boring Red, I'll ready you later - we want more of the English Gabrie Garcia Marquez (but without the wanky bits).
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Post by Carrotline on Sept 8, 2004 14:46:45 GMT
I love Johnathen Coe!
The house of Sleep is one of my favourite books ever. I've re-read at least 12 times.
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Post by klee on Sept 9, 2004 9:36:11 GMT
Right, finished Case Histories yesterday and it is indeed rather ace.
Yes, it's not as experimental and quirky as her earlier work, nor is it as laugh out loud funny as Emotionally Weird, but what's really compelling is the way she uses psychological states to drive the novel forwards.
I think a lot of this change may come from the fact that her early work tended to satirise or make light of the sense of disappointment inherent to middle age, whereas now (as the author approaches it herself) she treats it more sensitively.
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