David’s Comments (group member since Mar 28, 2012)

David’s comments from the flight paths group.

I'm rereading my first - and only - Kindle purchase: Kyoko's House. My The Sea and Poison: A Novel is a proper book ... a fairly naff but adorable 1970s edition from Tuttle. And, yes, of course it says "Graham Greene" somehwere on the cover. Poor Endo, that must have been so boring for him.

Has anyone had good experiences with Gravity's Rainbow? I'm thinking of giving it a go.

And are we setting those public "reading challenges" in 2014? I won't. I don't much like what it did to my reading and book buying in 2013. I have to meet targets at work and I don't need them in my real life, too.

Trollope's a scream! Everyone's always freaking out for cash and/or power ... but being very polite about it. There's also a fare few murders, thefts of diamonds, muggings, etc. There was a scene in my latest where one candidate for the Parliamentary seat threatened to horsewhip his opponenet ... and then started walking around the constituency *with a horsewhip*. "This shit just got real" I thought.

Magdelanye wrote: "what must I do to get notifications for this group?

Just now seeing these comments and Davids great list.
If I had to schoose a fa vorite,it would be hard to do.
Just wondering,do you plan to rea..."

It's not nearly so famous ... just the last of Trollope's Palliser novels.

I may approach Proust as I approached the Pallisers. Start with the first, see if I like it ... and then finish over the subsequent 10 years?

The Prime Minister is my hundredth book of the year, the fifth and penultimate of the Pallisers and the launch of my "Airbus A380 season"! My "Airbus A380 season" is all about European super-jumbos.Crime and Punishment...The Red and the Black...The Brothers Karamazov...Swann's Way...Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family...The Tin Drum ...Anna Karenina...Auto-da-Fé...and, probably, The Duke's Children.

"The Home of Yukio Mishima" ... photographs of his bizarre Eurotrash villa. I love it!

I think Kenzaburo Oe has arrived at my local Post Office! Picking it up tomorrow morning.

I'm alternating Japanese - gay British mid 20th Century - Japanese - gay British mid 20th Century until the middle of September.

Hello! I'm with Pam Houston at the moment, a total blast from the past for me.

I'm alternating between Japanese and non-Japanese. So next is something set just after the war by Akira Someone. After that it is "The Swimming Pool Library", for all of the Ronald Firbank allusions.

Douglas Fairbanks?

I am going to finish The Complete Ronald Firbank before the start of July! It's been a blast, but looking forward to not having to carry it around with me...

On the 91 bus from Crouch End to St Pancras... living the dream.

There was a farmer on Radio 4 this morning saying that 1% of water usage in the UK is from agriculture! But much of the rest of the world may be different, of course, providing for a much higher percentage globally. So this comment isn't really very helpful.

Sorry ... I didn't hit "reply", does it make a difference?

I don't know him, I'm afraid...

Yes! Very close. My nearest tube station. FYI.

I'm in Crouch End, north London! Home of "Shaun of the Dead" and a Stephen King short story! Very exciting.