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Tony,Tony. You took the Money. Just say it. It's ok. We'd all have done the same. Brillant Novella. Don't apologize.❤

Divine indifference ? " Misanthropy " would be more accurate.? The essential quality for literary " greats " like Burgess and Spark.!

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Nabokov given a review copy disliked it, calling it a diarrhea of dialogue from typewriter! I love the book myself, but enjoy great artists crapping on each other

Is there anything "immoral" about the imagination? umm, certainly you shouldn't be arrested for it but to argue, philosophically, that what if the immoral things in this world are moral in the next is like wow. I can't imagine a world where pedophilia, raping kids, beating people, cutting little boys #### off because they got groomed by a teacher is like okay and normal, even though this world is trying to normalize all of it with nonstop "re-branding". Seems like we are living in a horror show.

amazing

read lichtenberg and i b singer after this , as an antidote......I found it overwritten.. too writerly ......not to mention the seduction of despair.

This is a marvelous series.

Gravity's Rainbow: I couldn't possibly recommend it to anyone, but I'm helluva glad I read it.

It was good thank you

Love the show, but I have a really hard time listening to you because your volume is so low

Discovered Roberts this year and can't get enough of him

A shame there doesn’t seem to be a way to download these to listen on an MP3 player while walking or driving.

I really enjoyed the Luzhin Defence movie of the Nabakov story ruclips.net/video/vFzV2tdhkrI/видео.html&pp=ygUPbmFib2tvdiBkZWZlbnNl

Great series and I'm looking forward to enjoying the show some evening soon, but I must say that I'm worried. Brian Boyd's book on Pale Fire was about the biggest waste of literary criticisim space that I've ever come across. For some, I'm afraid, Pale Fire is a hermeneutic invitation to a kind of conspiracy theory web-spinning. But I'm also optimistic: views change, one learns.

I gave up after the tenth " a-a- a-nd " . Aural torture..!

This was fascinating and illuminating. Thank you

I’ve never been to LA (and probably never will) so the only LA I know is Chandler’s LA. And like the woman whose flaws showed the closer you got to her, I’ll keep my distance.

I think Anthony Burgess was very envious of Greene’s financial success as a writer, and especially the fact that so many of Greene’s books were made into film.

My hundredth would be Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants

Well done, guys. I grew up in California a few hours from LA, but I had relatives that lived in and about the basin and could have appeared in Chandler's works. I didn't read Chandler until a middle-aged adult, and the only crime fiction I'd read to that point was Conan Doyle. For whatever reason I joined Folio books some time in the 80's, and on a whim I purchased their edition of Chandler's Marlowe novels. I read them all in order and within about a week. Not knowing much of anything about Chandler criticism, I arrived at this one, The Long Goodbye, as my favorite. It is the longest, but it IS different. Chandler had a different motive and worked on a broader canvas here. There are actually THREE beautiful women in this one, and two end up dead. Chandler obviously had an odd relationship with women, which you have explored here. He was compelled to be attracted to them but did NOT really like them. Anyone holding to knightly attitudes toward women is presented either as fool or jaded cynic, and often a drunk. Lennox is a weak drunk. His own dear Cissy left her first husband to cleave to Raymond. She was a soiled dove. Perhaps that's why he also loved that Persian cat of his. He knew her true nature but loved her anyway.

Her name ends in "'ch" not "-k"

A question - why the fascination in the books with occultism? Eardliegh [Obviously Dion Fortune] Dr Trelawney [less obviously Aleister Crowley and Scorp Mirtlock [Possibly Kenneth Grant]. Why?? It seems so clearly out of step with the dance. Was Powell an Occultist?

Odo Stevens and Ted Jeavons and Quiggin are all definitely of humble origins surely! Mark Members as well if we are to believe Sillery! And Sillery makes claim to humble origins as well.

Hi can you please share the name of the music at the beginning at the video ?

I enjoyed this so much, and thanks for luring me to Green!

Great analogy, FW is night and Ulysses is day.

I'm currently reading Pavane for the first time and I think it is well written, has some interesting ideas, but is a difficult read for a non-British person who has little knowledge of England's history and geography. There is so much slang and so many references to places I've never heard of (but that I'm sure British people know of), I find myself just accepting that I'm missing a lot. I do like the structure of the novel as each chapter...or "measure" as they are referred to in the book...is its own separate story but there are characters related to characters from previous stories. I read Canticle for Leibowitz many years ago and would say that it was easier for me to read and understand.

did not expect a Rambo reference in this series

08:40 Good discussion, I just hate it when people put the stress on the wrong part of 'aristocrat' and say it the American way, like this is a Disney cartoon. Stress is on the first A, like in aristocratic. English is a stress-timed language, so when people put the stress in the wrong part of the word, native-speakers find that jarring.

Barth and Burgess were the first contemporary authors I fell in love with, great interview, many thanks. Morrell's shoptalk is gold.

Such an amazing podcast. Thank you for all your work!

Gravitys rainbow breaks my mind every time i attempt it.

RIP john barth

Personally enjoyed the novel more, but the film is nothing short of brilliant. I have love for both literature and cinema.

Thank you for this post. I can't agree with everything your guest says about the book. The book is difficult, but it is so because of the grand hallucinatory state that Lowry brings to the English language. I don't think your guest understands what the poetry in this great novel does for the reader. It is my favorite novel.

I’ve owned all of Burgess’s published journalism in book form. I know he praised Lanark but disliked 1982, Janine. I wonder what he thought of Poor Things?

Great another bloody southern student coming to Manchester telling us how and what we were, ditto Dave Haslam. Tedious commentators of our real lives but we did it all quite happily without student analysis or presentism. They never came over to East Manchester that’s for sure. Manning never offended anybody until thirty years later , get your facts right!

Question: was Burgess a good novelist? Murdoch invested in the novel form and explored ideas of goodness and desire. Burgess was experimental , exploring through language more than content, his experiences, but could he write a good novel? Like Flann O'Brien he attracts lots of outsiders to English fiction, a new way of looking at things. I think Murdoch inhabits a greater place in fiction. Burgess was a better critic of fiction.

On my fourth read (and one listen) since 1973. I will always come back to this novel. One morning in the Curry Company cafeteria in Yosemite Valley I spotted a young woman wearing a Byron the Bulb tee-shirt. Can't have been many people who caught that.

Henry Green is terrific. I just finished reading Back, and I'm hooked. I'm gonna read em all now.

My favorite Burgess novel is "nothing like the sun" , fictitious take on Shakespeare's sex life.

I've independently researched the origins of "A Christmas Carol" for almost 15 years, now. My results suggest that it was originally written by an American couple named Mathew and Abby Whittier, and that Charles Dickens merely re-worked it to appeal to the broadest spectrum of the public, when he was in need of money.

Thank you so much for this. I have learned a lot and enjoyed greatly.

Having read the book many times before getting a chance to see the movie, I have to say the movie was a disappointment. Kubrick added nothing to it. His camera is distant from the characters contrasting with the sense of being very much in Alex's mind that the novel gives you. Burgess' world is a very gritty, shabby, and poor working class Northern town in an alternative postwar England. Kubrick's world looks a tacky yet prosperous outer London, like a 1970s Habitat catalogue. Apart from some rubbish strewn around Thamesmeade estate he doesn't make a convincing case for anarchic youth. Great soundtrack album though.

Really enjoying this podcast series.

Entertaining and enlightening! Nick Birns offers both a scholar's wisdom and a reader's enthusiasm.

I've had a PMC copy of this book for years that I have never read. I will now read it, thank you.

The to-read list continues to tower into the heavens.

Great podcast, now I feel a lot better about struggling massively with the book!