great vid Marc...as I mentioned, i can't sweep out the thoughts of Solenoid since finishing...extraordinary impactful and endless and excited to see what you'll do with its beauty and complexity in your next vid....and fantastic to hear about Maso, have AVA on my nightstand and is part of sept reading...btw, i can't remember if i've told you before, you should do audio book voiceover for extra book $$, you're a fabulous reader...not all writers can read aloud to understand others' voice & cadence....as for Cusk, i did "enjoy" (respect?) her book on motherhood and Outline, and the trilogy, but with diminishing returns....definitely will now avoid Parade...it feels like she is riffing on Kundera, whos magnificent masterpieces (The book of laughter and forgetting & unbearable lightness of being) work similar long parts of 'essay/analysis/discourse unattached to the 'life of the characters'...yet, they seem themselves another disembodied character....and speaking of dinner party scenes (loathe them too), there is ONE masterful one: watch Buñuel 's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...but i love when you riff on what is wrong with a book hahaha, lovely....too bad about Napalm book...ok, off my list....off to montreal and finalizing a manuscript.!!!...looking forward to the Solenoidvid !....bb
I did like Danny Denton's "The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow" but maybe it isn't really a dystopian novel, although it too is beset by non-stop rain.
I've been curious to try Cusk but so many people have raved about her and it has made me skeptical rather than more excited, so I was interested to hear your thoughts on her. I think I'd still like to check her out but I feel better going in with some opposing views to consider. The American Lady in a Chinese Hat and The Longcut sound interesting to me. Especially the latter since I'm always debating with myself about art and art-making.
I think you'd both enjoy and get a lot out of The Longcut. It's chockfull of ideas and reflections about art and artists. My only objection was from a structural & tonal point of view, not the quality of the writing or the ideas.
I read one Rachel Cusk Second Place I hated it so much I’ve never read another of her books. I don’t respond well to privileged people acting terribly without consequences.
great video! :D also, you have a really soothing voice, i like it!
Ha thanks! 😀
Thanks for once again convincing me that it’s ok to skip the latest Rachel Cusk novel.
I wish I'd demonstrated the same fortitude to skip it. Should have listened to my heart
great vid Marc...as I mentioned, i can't sweep out the thoughts of Solenoid since finishing...extraordinary impactful and endless and excited to see what you'll do with its beauty and complexity in your next vid....and fantastic to hear about Maso, have AVA on my nightstand and is part of sept reading...btw, i can't remember if i've told you before, you should do audio book voiceover for extra book $$, you're a fabulous reader...not all writers can read aloud to understand others' voice & cadence....as for Cusk, i did "enjoy" (respect?) her book on motherhood and Outline, and the trilogy, but with diminishing returns....definitely will now avoid Parade...it feels like she is riffing on Kundera, whos magnificent masterpieces (The book of laughter and forgetting & unbearable lightness of being) work similar long parts of 'essay/analysis/discourse unattached to the 'life of the characters'...yet, they seem themselves another disembodied character....and speaking of dinner party scenes (loathe them too), there is ONE masterful one: watch Buñuel 's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...but i love when you riff on what is wrong with a book hahaha, lovely....too bad about Napalm book...ok, off my list....off to montreal and finalizing a manuscript.!!!...looking forward to the Solenoidvid !....bb
The best apocalyptic novel I’ve read is
Deluge by Stephen Markley
I did like Danny Denton's "The Earlie King & The Kid In Yellow" but maybe it isn't really a dystopian novel, although it too is beset by non-stop rain.
Not as stellar as some of your reading weeks Marc but at least you had the Maso. Rachel Cusk has never appealed to me and apparently I’m not alone.
Cusk drives me crackers Jo. I've got to stop doing it to myself!
I've been curious to try Cusk but so many people have raved about her and it has made me skeptical rather than more excited, so I was interested to hear your thoughts on her. I think I'd still like to check her out but I feel better going in with some opposing views to consider. The American Lady in a Chinese Hat and The Longcut sound interesting to me. Especially the latter since I'm always debating with myself about art and art-making.
I think you'd both enjoy and get a lot out of The Longcut. It's chockfull of ideas and reflections about art and artists. My only objection was from a structural & tonal point of view, not the quality of the writing or the ideas.
That Cusk sounds really poor. Thanks for the tip-off.
I read one Rachel Cusk
Second Place
I hated it so much I’ve never read another of her books. I don’t respond well to privileged people acting terribly without consequences.
Cusk herself must see that she writes for the privileged and elites surely Jacqui? But there again she's nothing if she's not obdurate!