I'm not sure "Never let me go" is upsetting but it is bleak, truthful and humane. Attributes of a great writer.
I have yet to approach "The unconsoled" but it is on my hit list.

posted by lizzier at 12:08 pm (EST) on Nov 23, 2006

I think I have read everything DWJ has ever written - would you call that obsessive? Like you, I don't want her to shuffle off this mortal coil but I don't think she is over the hill by a long stretch! In 21st century terms, she is young!
I have to say "The Merlin Conspiracy" left me reeling with confusion. Perhaps I was just experiencing a particularly wearying time at work.
If I ever break a leg or undergo long term sick leave, I will re-read the entire ouevre with massive pleasure. (Not that I want long term sick, you understand.)

I see you have "Never let me go". What were your thoughts?
(I'm in awe of Ishiguro's writing)

posted by lizzier at 4:40 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2006

just catalogue your books s-l-o-w-l-y

or get a kid to do it like my friend who bribed her nephews

i still have lots to enter

MPH first of all stood for methodist publishing house and then for malayan publishing house and then not for anything

the history is here:

http://www.mph.com.my/disclaimer/aboutus...

posted by bibliobibuli at 7:00 am (EST) on Nov 16, 2006

hello! so you are a library thingy too!! *hugs*

posted by bibliobibuli at 4:45 am (EST) on Oct 24, 2006

I absolutely agreed with you about "Under a Tuscan Sun". I hated it so much, I gave it to someone who wanted to read it and specifically requested that It Never Be Returned. That's how much I hated it. My question is, "What have the Tuscans everdone to deserve such a hapless book?"
Interested to see your extensive D.W.Jones collection. Have you read the latest, "The Pinhoe egg"? It's another Chrestomanci novel.
You have some delicious looking titles!

posted by lizzier at 4:42 pm (EST) on Oct 22, 2006