robertson davies trilogies

I've only read the first so have to vote that.

just fyi its pretty much my lyfe dream to make a film adaptation of "tempest-tost" in all its summery glory but im still not sure EGGXACTLY which of these i will bestow my vote upon

Read in this order: Deptford, Salterton, Cornish. Can't decide! Probably Salterton, but will think on it for awhile.

i tried and honestly cant recall what order i first read them in ive read them all a bunch of times probably like once every couple of years since i was 14

I envy you! I wish I'd known about Davies much earlier, but I only read the Deptford trilogy in, like, 2002, and finished the Cornish about 2 years ago.

in a way mb thats better - he has a v. powerful and persuasive worldview (lol ramsay's plain style) - that i wasnt really equipped to parse when i was a callow youth. his characters have a way of tripping into these fantastical edens and surrogate families thats always left me feeling unsatisfied with places

like damn sometime u just wish u could chill for one minute in a swiss phantasmagoria/castle/bear god's lair and reflect on ur lyfe

still have not read any of these, better get started so i can vote

I've never read any of these, I just assumed anything called 'The Deptford Trilogy' would be awful. n.b. Americans will not be able to understand why

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i got ur deptford trilogy rite here

I've never read any of these

kinda surprised - seems like the sort of thing ud be into - but i probably shouldnt be. no1 british ever seems to have heard of him which is lol considering how much he write about u ppl *grim muttering*

haha yeah i just noticed it's deptford ontario

this makes more sense. i'll look out for them, there's probably a copy around here somewhere.

Only read the Cornish. The final book (lyre) was very thin which was a major factor in my not moving straight on to the others, although I vaguely intend to pick them up some time.

we seem to have lots of copies of 'the cunning man', mainly.

Only read the Cornish. The final book (lyre) was very thin which was a major factor in my not moving straight on to the others, although I vaguely intend to pick them up some time.

The Deptford Trilogy is magnificent.

I read Cornish first then Deptford; still haven't read Salterton. I think I'd have to give my emotional vote to Cornish because that was my intro to such a great writer.

Never of tire of quoting David Lodge on RD: "his writing may be a bit gamey for some tastes, a bit too redolent of high table."

Speaking of David Lodge, which book has the old Jesuit who is an expert on the secret lives of the saints? It's one of the Deptfords.

'Fifth Business'

i read the deptford trilogy about 20 years ago. i knew some people who were huge fans so i wanted to see what the big deal was. i liked it ok, but it's not really my kind of thing. i remember liking the first one best.

Ha ha, when I read it (about 20 years ago, too) it couldn't really have been MORE my kind of thing.

same people were really big on calvino, another author i liked but didn't love.

Calvino wrote tons of books not every one is for everyone, but I'll keep quite a few of them including The Baron In The Trees, The Cloven Viscount and especially Marcovaldo.

yeah, Baron was the one i read. i should read more, but my taste runs more towards the heavy and depressing.

Loved Salterton, which was just lots of FUN, but voted Deptford, because it has so much excellent stuff in it. Haven't yet read Cornish.

i was thinking 2day that all of deptford is basically a series of conversations btw the same half dozen ppl who all have different voices but also the same one like u can tell david's thoughts from magnus' from ramsay's but at the same time the entire trilogy speaks w/ a unified thoughtfulness and coherence

the other two arent as consistent i think and they arent as ruthless and open minded in their pursuit of answers. james woods takes apart richard powers in this weeks nyer for weighting the scales in hos novels and davies does that a little esp in salterton too - altho he's a lot better @ ppl and a different kind of writer but it made me think of the "everything in moderation" resolution for monica gall :(

my plan is to feed my kind nothing but diet fresca bite sized oreos and twizzlers since those are the only things that will be left to eat after the apocalypse

haha wrong thread obv - but i stand by it

i actually couldn't tell if you intended that for this thread or not tbh

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Starting the Cornish Trilogy tonight!

feel like i preferred robin jarvis in the end somehow

feel like i maybe picked up one of these books once and ran my hand across the cover