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Topic Started: May 31 2007, 03:41 PM (5,903 Views)
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Fiction? Published? I'd genuinely be willing to buy one. Which is far more complementary than you could imagine. As I hate buying things and I won't even read stuff my family writes.

Ha. Didn't he do a memoir for Naipaul where he's basically bitter and insults him throughout most of it? Being A Man is the worst of what I've read of his. He comes off as very unpleasant. Here's a piece:
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I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful,
in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for
one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).
Even me expression "Be a man!" strikes me as insulting and abusive. It means: Be stupid,
be unfeeling, obedient, soldierly and stop thinking. Man means "manly"—how can one think
about men without considering me terrible ambition of manliness? And yet it is part of every
man's life. It is a hideous and crippling lie; it not only insists on difference and connives
at superiority, it is also by its very nature destructive—emotionally damaging and socially
harmful.


I've seen a couple of the Weird Weekend ones. The WCW one, of course, and the UFO one stick out the most.
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Fiction, only sent it off to a handful of people so it's unpublished.

Naipaul is very fucking unpleasant anyway. I'd convinced myself Theroux was Alan Moore's source for bits of Swamp Thing, but, looking it up, it was in fact Bruce Chatwin:

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The Sect of the Burjeria exists for the purpose of hurting ordinary people. No one knows the exact whereabouts of its headquarters. But there are at least two branches of its Central Committee, one in Buenos Aires, the other in Santiago de Chile. It is not certain which of these is the senior, or if both are beholden to Superior Authority. Regional committees are scattered through the provinces and take their orders, without question, from above. Junior members are kept in ignorance of the names of the higher functionaries.

On Chiloe the Commmittee is known as the Council of the Cave. The cave lies somewhere in the forests south of Qunicavi, somewhere below ground. Any visitor to it sufferes thereafter from temporary amnesia. If he happens to be literate, he loses his hands and the ability to write.

Novices of the Sect must submit to a six-year course of indoctrination. Since the full syllabus is known only to the Central Committee, the island schools have a tentative character. When an instructor thinks his pupil is ready for admission, the Council of the Cave assembles and puts him through a sequence of tests.

The candidate must submerge himself for forty days and forty nights under a waterfall of the Thaiguen River, to wash off the effects of his Christian baptism. (During this time he is allowed a little toast.) Next, he must catch, without fumbling, a skull, which the instructor throws from the crown of a tricorn hat. He must kill his best friend to show he has wiped out all trace of sentiment. He must sign a document with blood from his own veins. And he must disinter a recently buried male Christian cropse and flay the skin from the breast. Once this is cured and dried, he sews it into a "theives' waistcoat". The human grease remaining in the skin gives off a soft phosphorescence, which lights the members's nocturnal expeditions.

Full Members have the Power to steal private property; to change themselves into other animals; to influence thoughts and dreams; to open doors; to drive men mad; to change the course of rivers; and to spread disease, especially some new virus that will not respond to medical treatment. In some cases the Member scars his victim lightly and allows him to buy his life back by supplying the Council of the Cave with a quantity of his own blood (to be delivered in a conch shell). If anyone is so foolish as to mock the Sect, he is put to sleep and tonsured. His hair will not grow back until he has signed a confession.

Among the technical equipment the Sect has at its disposal is the Challanco, a crystal stone through which the Central Committee surveys the minutest details of a man's life. No one has yet described the device with complete accuracy. Some report it as a bowl of glass; others as a large circular mirror, whihc emits and receives penetrating rays. The Challanco is known as the BOOK or the MAP. In addition to spying on all members of the hierarchy, it is thought to contain an indecipherable copy of hte dogma of the Sect itself.


On Louie, apart from the WCW one I think everyone remembers the Westboro one.
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The WCW one, the porn one and the Westboro one are awesome. That's all I've seen though.
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I'd convinced myself Theroux was Alan Moore's source for bits of Swamp Thing, but, looking it up, it was in fact Bruce Chatwin


I'm somewhat offended on his behalf. I hope proper flagellation occurred.

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I've read The Bell Jar and this sci-fi thing called Boneshaker in the last two weeks. I think next is The Road.
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For The Bell Jar, I've always seen Of as Esther.
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If Esther had some Hunter S. Thompson in her. I think Lance is more the giant gun/awesome suicide note type.
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I actually based myself on a character in Satantango. See if you can guess which one.
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I've only seen parts of the film and haven't touched the book. So, I really hope it's Mrs. Schmidt.
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Just finished reading Snuff. I don't know why I started it. I'm doubly puzzled as to why I was compelled to finish it.
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Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avacado
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Iain Sinclair and Alain Robbe-Grillet.
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Of Mice and Men!

Absolutely love this wee book.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Mostly I'm just wanting to see the movie, but cannot do so until I read the play.
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My new goal in life is to read every autobiography with a really bad pun for a title. This one is pretty awesome so far.
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Some book on African football.
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Oh, and the film of Rosencrantz is rubbish.
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Oh, and the film of Rosencrantz is rubbish.
I still haven't made it around to watching it. It doesn't seem like a film would suit it well, though.
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Stoppard himself ruins it.

I recommend reading Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth, though.

Which reminds me I should get round to buying Ionesco's Macbett.
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JG Ballard's Rushing to Paradise and Cohen's Book of Mercy.
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