As we do not have one here it is. Mainly because I want to know if anyone has read The Third Policeman by Flann O'brien. I have been told by some it is brilliant, others say it is weird, and some say it was so confusing they packed it in.
Recently bought Ham on Rye by Bukowski which is brilliant and Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan which I'm keeping for my holiday in the Summer.
I just got my copy of Fratoj Grimm: Elektitaj Fabeloj in the mail. Haven't read it yet so can't give a review. First story is La Sep Karpidoj I know that sounds exciting.
I did. I'm sure we had this conversation in the pub thread a while ago and I suggested you read Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis. A bit old fashioned but a classic. Edit: I've just done a search on here and it's not finding it, don't know why because I definitely remember it.
Finished reading my first story from the book. It is a riveting encounter where a momma-goat and her seven kids must outwit a trickster wolf that wants to eat them. It is an emotional rollercoaster of dispair and then joy followed by a despicable murder of the poor wolf. 9/10 would translate again.
I read it in the 80s, so can't remember much but it was a bit of a tough read. Then again, they say Joyce's Ulysses was the greatest book of the 20th century and that's a bitch.
@luvgonzo Just came across this book and can't remember if it's your kind of thing. It's only 80 pages so you could read it in one go. Junk by Tommy Pico - here's the blurb ... Imagine Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" littered with Morgan Parker's pop cultural panache, and you'll get Junk, Tommy Pico's brazen third book, a long-form breakup poem at once hilarious and harrowing. The pages brim with mischievous couplets ("You can lead a man to Beyoncé, but you can't make him think"; "I'm not judgmental I just don't like anything you do"). Here, "junk" means everything from "broken radios n hopeful cassettes" and "the sticky soda of my boy meat" to "letting go of you." Pico, who is American Indian, blends personal and political fulmination: "'Freedom' is such historical propaganda Indigenous / and black lives remind American exceptionalism that slavery, / theft, and genocide are its founding institutions." This he follows with a directive to his lover: "Buy me a donut / and take me to a museum."
