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I have just been to the library and ere was a clearance book sale, everything 10 pence!
I bought The Pesthouse by Jim Crace, Stick our your tongue by Ma Jian, Madame Proust and the Kosher kitchen by Kate Taylor, The girl from the coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, and Between two rivers by N ... ... ting!
I have to add Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake to the list of dystopias written post 9/11 (2004, I think). Unlike The Pesthouse or The Road though, hers is satirical.
Lest we not forget the noticeable increase in post-apocalyptic tales (some satirical, some not), such as: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace (2007), The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006), Our American King by David Lozell Martin (published on 9/11/07, satirical) eta Oryx and Crake (2004, satirical)
... ... observation! I came to it having read quite a lot of post-apocalyptic, dystopian literature and having just read The Pesthouse. I'm reading The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, which should be a quick read and then maybe The Pesthouse by Jim Crace.
... I'd recommend you read Sower, Tad, and see if its more to your liking. I have a thing for post-apocalyptic writing (I have The Pesthouse by Jim Crace in my to-read pile, and am looking forward to that).
So far, I'm on target with 2 books read in 17 days:
1. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
This was a good dystopian that reminded me a lot of The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I think I liked The Road a little bit more, but The Pesthouse has a happier ending. :)
2. The Bad Seed P.S. by William Marc ... Nice review on The Pesthouse, omphalokepsis. I read it last year, and enjoyed it. It certainly has a slower pace than some post-apocalyptic novels, but I got through it very quickly.
I'll be reading The Road this year; from everything I've heard, I'm sure I will like it. ... I read The Road last week, and to say that I loved it would be an understatement :) so I will have to try are find The Pesthouse. Thanks for the review! Just finished: 3. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
As soon as I heard the interview about "The Pesthouse" with the author Jim Crace on NPR's "Diane Rehm Show," I thought of the other recent successful post-apocalyptic novel, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." I loved "The Road," so, for ... ... Dream by HG Wells
Children of Men by PD James
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
When the Sleeper Wakes by HG Wells
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Classics:
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Painted Veil by W S ... ... series, and I will most certainly continue to pick them up and devour them when I get the chance.
In progress: 3. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace ... The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
2. The Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith
3. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
4. Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
5. Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indriason
6. River of Do ... Finishing off The Pesthouse by Jim Crace, as it has apparently been on my to-read list for a couple years. ... s
Bareback by Kit Whitfield
High John the Conqueror by Jim Younger
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven ... ... History and Dystopian novels have little science at all..."
VERY good point, Sparks.
Which brings to mind Jim Crace's THE PESTHOUSE and, as mentioned on the thread that led to this one, folks like George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.
William Hjortsberg's GRAY MATTERS, Dennis Danver's CIRC ... ... s
Bareback by Kit Whitfield
High John the Conqueror by Jim Younger
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
The Red Men by Matthew de Abaitua
First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall
The Raw Shark Texts by Steven ... ... is a tough, tough book to read...makes Irvine Welsh look like a pushover in terms of dialect and voice.
Have you read THE PESTHOUSE by Jim Crace? It's another good post-apocalyptic book that's easier to read but still literary and intelligent. RIDDLEY WALKER by Russell Hoban
THE PESTHOUSE by Jim Crace I just finished Pesthouse by Jim Crace. Good and depressing, just the way I like them!! ... but as I was out shopping, this inexplicable force just drew me in. Seriously, there was nothing I could do! Came out with The Pesthouse by Jim Crace, which was on my wishlist, so that's good. After THE ROAD, tackle Jim Crace's THE PESTHOUSE--two post apocalypse novels by literary writers with talent and imagination to spare.
There are two or three scenes in particular from THE ROAD that I simply can't chase out of my mind--though I've brought in fumigators and exorcists and a ... That is a book that I really must read, Kathi. I have read The Pesthouse by Jim Crace and really intended to get to the American comparable. Thanks for the review.
23. The pesthouse by Jim Crace
I enjoyed this book but wasn't wowed. The writing was overly descriptive and overly poetic at times, like the author wanted to impress me more than he wanted to tell a story. Also it is not quite clear to me why he set it in a post-apolytic America. It doesn't ... I've just started reading The Yacoubian Building and The Pesthouse, having eaten up A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, The Somnambulist, and The Book Thief this weekend.
The Book Thief annoyed me intensely. Dictionary for Lovers started as an irritation but crept up into ... ... David Lozell Martin. A satirical post-apocalyptic novel set here in America. This is not written with the gravitas of The Pesthouse or The Road but with a sly wit, often irreverent, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, poking fun of our cultural foibles along the way but giving us plenty to ... The Pesthouse Jim Crace
Bridge of Sighs Richard Russo
I Hate to See that Evening Sun Go Down William Gay
Finn Jon Clinch
Twilight William Gay
Not The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Finn. ... just finished Quarantine and although I really do like reading Jim Crace, didn't enjoy this story so much. I did like The Pesthouse though. I intend to read more of his work soon. Just finished Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, which I loved and have started The Red Shoe by Ursula Dobosarsky - not sure about this one yet. 102. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
I found this one hard to put down. It is set in a future America long after something has caused all machines to stop working. The population is leaving - everyone who is able is trekking east to the mythical ocean where boats are waiting to take them to a ... I'm reading The Pesthouse by Jim Crace. It is an absorbing book. I've never read anything by this author before but will be looking out for more of his novels. ... me like it might have been to other readers. I was also reminded a bit of Miller's A Canticle for Lebowitz and I had read The Pesthouse prior to the McCarthy.
Anyone read the latest dystopia?..The Last American King, I think it's called (or something like that). Publishers Weekly gave it ... ... that we are glad didn't happen is Fatherland by Robert Harris.
On my to-be-bought pile that might fit your bill is The Pesthouseby Jim Crace. If his previous work is anything to go by, this should be a good book. Also not bought yet but will be is The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
Propheta ... Karen, I checked out your review of The Pesthouse and enjoyed it. The novel sounds very worthwhile, though the dialogue may be a stumbling block for American readers. The other reviews of this novel quote some snatches of dialogue that sound like they came out of an old Barney Google cartoon. (Ame ... I was seriously considering a comparison between The Road and The Pesthouse but you have beaten me to it with the excellent reviews above.
I have yet to read The Road so it is difficult to compare directly, but The Pesthouse is also a post-apocalyptic world described by an English author ... If you read The Road, you should pick up a copy of The Pesthouse. Jim Crace is a very talented British author.
Two newer dystopian novels that have appeared are The Pesthouse by Jim Crace which I have read and enjoyed. It is actually quite uplifting despite the topic and deals with American decline after an apocylapse.
Similar in theme is The Road by Cormac McCormac, which is on my TBR pile ... ... and Crake by Margaret Atwood
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and I second Canticle for Leibowitz.
The recent The Pesthouse by Jim Crace and The Road by Cormac McCarthy were pretty good also - although the things they have to say are more subtle than, say, the Atwood or ... Some more for the longlist
Jim Crace The Pesthouse
Matthew Kneale When We Were Romans
Don DeLillo Falling Man
I wasn't impressed with either On Chesil Beach or Day - so I move to strike both!
From The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
whose prose is simply divine and very evocative in it's simplicity.
“Why does sea-water taste the way it does?”….
“There’s salt in tears, that’s why. The ocean’s one great weeping eye. On clear days, we can see the curve of it.”
In ... Just finished The Pesthouse by Jim Crace which was great.
#105 Don't recommend The Thirteenth Tale at all - actually thought it was very average - however, this goes against most other people's advice so bear that in mind.
... the year and how much I stretch it to include books like John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things and Jim Crace's The Pesthouse.
20-25 years ago, I had three small children and I consumed science fiction like it was candy. It was easily digestible and had some thought-provoking ... ... forward to later in the year.
Right now I'm past a hundred pages in Jim Crace's rather uninteresting new novel The Pesthouse and will probably bail on it pretty soon, finding it just a total yawner. It's supposed to be another story of desperate survivors set loose in Crace's ... In today's mail from Amazon UK, a copy of Jim Crace's new novel The Pesthouse. ... Interesting. Aging and "being lost" is also part of the story.
Also just read Jim Crace's post-apocalyptic novel The Pesthouse. It is a very good story and I think he did a very credible job with Margaret, the tough, resourceful, naive, red-headed heroine of the story. I've finished The Pesthouse by Jim Crace. It is a very good story set in a future, devastated America but somehow I was just the tiniest bit disappointed in it. This was an ARC with a letter from the publisher calling it dystopian and mentioning The Handmaid's Tale, all in one breath. So, I ... I am here in the United States, in the future, with Jim's Crace's The Pesthouse, miraculously, I am also in Australia with Banjo Paterson. I've finished Atwood's Moral Disorder and have started The Pesthouse by Jim Crace, another post-apocalyptic story after the United States has been devastated by something...or somethings... ... I picked up at the bookstore yesterday (yes, they still let me sift through the reader's copies). Jim Crace's new novel, The Pesthouse, is apparently a post-apocalyptic novel set in the US. The publisher calls it dystopian; I suppose it is both (and it's unlikely a utopian society would ... Thanks so much, Lois. I ordered a copy of The Pesthouse from Amazon UK, due 3/16, 5/1 in the US. Sounds like one I'd really like, and am always ready for another new Crace. ... I thought I'd mention this ARC I brought home from the bookstore today (yes, they still let me rifle through the stacks). The Pesthouse by Jim Crace seems to be a post-apocalyptic story. The blurb on the back begins, "Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a ... Louis, I just brought home an ARC of a forthcoming Jim Crace novel called The Pesthouse. It sports a blurb from John Crowley and looks like it's post-apocalytic story. Coming out in May (it's nice the bookstore still lets me go through the reader's copies when I'm there...).
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