So you've gotten through The Tin drum (I haven't, but this is will come up in the next month or two). Where next?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 March 2010 21:49 (fifteen years ago)
Dog Years? The cover caught my eye, I bought it for the general idea of the book... and I haven't got around to reading it. I will eventually...
― argosgold (AndyTheScot), Saturday, 6 March 2010 22:10 (fifteen years ago)
Right, TD is part of a trilogy...anyone digs the activism/plays, etc
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 7 March 2010 12:43 (fifteen years ago)
just bought the new translation of The Tin Drum.
― jed_, Sunday, 7 March 2010 14:18 (fifteen years ago)
DON'T READ 'My Century'. Really glib and disappointing.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Monday, 8 March 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)
RIP sir
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 13 April 2015 09:34 (ten years ago)
Hadnt thought of him for ages so I probably assumed he wasnt aroudn any more - anyway pretty towering figure of modern Germany that's going away
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 13 April 2015 09:35 (ten years ago)
rip. one of my favourite writers when i was in my late teens/early twenties but have never really revisited.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 13 April 2015 09:47 (ten years ago)
RIP GG
― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2015 11:20 (ten years ago)
Haven't read a thing since I started the thread. Been linked to this:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v07/n18/neal-ascherson/citizen-grass-and-the-worlds-end
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 April 2015 13:04 (ten years ago)
The Tin Drum is worth the read but in places more ponderous than Thomas Mann is supposed to be.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 April 2015 13:48 (ten years ago)
He was a speechwriter for Willy Brandt!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 13 April 2015 13:51 (ten years ago)
think from the diary of a snail covered that period. remember it involving grass going around germany helping brandt in an election campaign, alternating with the story of someone in hiding during wwii (not one of his best). quite liked local anaesthetic, supposedly influenced by the nouveau roman. looking back, dog years is the one i have the most fondness for.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 13 April 2015 14:12 (ten years ago)
People on Facebook were cropping up with Tin Drum profile pictures earlier, was the only way I knew he was dead. Think I thought he already was though.
I need to get through Tin Drum, think i started it 30 years ago then lost it in a bag I lost in Paris while interrailing. Guess I just haven't seen a cheap copy since, oddly.
― Stevolende, Monday, 13 April 2015 17:15 (ten years ago)