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Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West This might not have been the best book (at 59 pages, a novella) with which to begin the New Year. It’s a bleak, bleak, tale. From the story, this tidy (and self-serving) summary provided by the titular character:
“A man is hired to give ... Martin has already reviewed Miss Lonelyhearts. Well worth your time if you are at all interested in that book. ... you from a different thread, but you don't like the hotness nor nastiness of the slew of hot and nasty characters in Miss Lonelyhearts? Huh? Thanks for the well wishes. I owe a review and have started on Miss Lonelyhearts, a group read with the Salon group. ... pass by....as does The Perfume Factory...and i love Dark....Deliciously so is even better.
.......speaking of which, Miss Lonelyhearts (and Day of the Locust)...aren't exactly bursting with sunshine... Read on, Sir!
;-} ... And likewise Mary's opinion toward Shrike. Such a lovely couple.
For those of you who won't have the time to read Miss Lonelyhearts now, here's, I think, in the following excerpt, the seed from which West riffed from. It not only summarizes the source of Miss Lonelyhearts' spiritual/ex ... ... And know while there is fun to be had in this book, it's also pretty deliciously dark at times....
Am halfway through Miss Lonelyhearts and hope to finish it today. ... is. It evokes in me the same type of emotional reaction as did A Clockwork Orange, only without the graphic gore, though Miss Lonelyhearts is still pretty graphic. It had to have been shocking in its day. I'm not surprised the French, I've found out, were the first to truly ... hey thanks pimphilipse for providing the site for the online text of Miss Lonelyhearts. I accidentally went online and ordered the interpretations of it and not the actual book! I've got a copy of Miss Lonelyhearts b/w The Day of the Locust so I'm in.
I was unaware of the Faulkner group (partly why I'm so slow at reading books is because I'm already aware of far too many groups on LT), but with Les Miserables now and Infinite Jest in a month or two I just can't ... Oh my! What a way to begin the new year! Of course, having read Day of the Locust I should have known.
I'll be back later tonight for more discussion, but in the meantime... apparently there is a bio on West and his wife coming out this March http://www.nathanaelwest.com/ by Marion Meade. ... 7> I forgot how powerful Miss Lonelyhearts is, as I've dipped into it some today. 3> Thanks for those! I saw over on Club Read that you're almost done with Miss Lonelyhearts. Look forward to your comments here or there (or everywhere!). I'll be finishing The Red Album of Asbury Park, Remixed today, by the salon's own Alex Austin - a riveting book,whose author will be ... ... catch my fancy and off I'll go!
Right now, I'm reading Les Miserables, The Quickening Maze and have almost completed Miss Lonelyhearts a novella by Nathanael West, which I began this morning for a group read and have almost finished.
A happy reading year to everyone! ... www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-caw-paperback-writers16-2009aug16,0,2369725.story
The second one is more about Day of the Locust but offers a quick overview of his life Hello everyone.
I'll be beginning my journey with the following:
1. Light in August
2. Miss Lonelyhearts
3. Take the Cannoli
4. Paradise Lost
Hope to have those done by the end of Jan. which will give me a head start for the coming months when I'll be reading huge books like In ... ... you might like based on your tastes (and that will give you the break you'll need from all those hefty five pounders): Miss Lonelyhearts (59 pages), Last Vanities (95 pages), Leo Tolstoy's Confession (93 pages), Of Mice and Men (under 100 pages), The Metamorphosis (under 100 pages). ... t)
70. The Dhammapada
71. I Think, Therefore Who Am I?
Added 12/29/09
72. Of Mice and Men
73. Confession
74. Miss Lonelyhearts 
75. Wittgenstein's Mistress ... that I join. An erudite group, this is. I shall try to be worthy!
I'll post 2010 reads here:
Books Read
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
Samplings
(A place to list short stories, essays, or other books that I'v ... ... the LTMonster lurking below my left wrist? Only one way to find out!
My copies of Les Miserables, Paradise Lost, and Miss Lonelyhearts arrived today.
I am digging into Les Mis as soon as I hang up and will meet others over in that corner of the Salon. You're not as far behind as I. I expect to take delivery of this, Paradise Lost, and Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust sometime early next week. ... giving each author one and it's better than Death in Venice
(3) Gilgamesh - on the list for thousands of years
(4) Miss Lonelyhearts, up in January!
(5) A Dissertation upon Roast Pig by Charles Lamb - is it essay, fiction or legend? ... of time best? I could be wrong...usually am.
I feel your pain, Martin ;-)
Nathanael West didn't even get a mention! The Day of the Locust is superb. And don't oh puhleese me, tomekate! ever again! You do it again and I'll SPIT on your list!!! and your suggestions!!!!
(tomcat, there' ... How about The Day of the Locust (129pp) or Miss Lonelyhearts (58 pp), both by Nathanael West? ... J.R.R. Tolkien
634. At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft
641. The Nine Tailors Dorothy L. Sayers
650. Miss Lonelyhearts Nathanael West
665. The Thin Man Dashiell Hammett
705. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
749. Kokoro Natsume Soseki
751. Tarzan of ... I so hesitate to try again, but how about Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanel West? ...
113. Journey to the End of the Night, Celine, 1960's
114. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Stein, 1960's
115. Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West, 1970's
116. Call It Sleep, Henry Roth, 1990's
117. *A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, 1980's
118. *Burmese Days, George Orwell, ... I read Miss Lonelyhearts today. I don't know what I was expecting...but it wasn't that. It wasn't bad at all. Just different.
I'm also about 50 pages into A Clockwork Orange. The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
A Great Day for the Deadly by Jane Haddam
Roux the Day by Peter King
Lady Yesterday by Loren D. Estleman
... onard.
The Player by Michael Tolkin
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
and my personal favorite, The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
The Dead Don't Care by Jonathan Latimer
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
The Black Path of Fear by Cornell Woolrich
Dread Journey by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Black Thumb by Constance & Gwenyth Little
The Hidden Hand by Carroll John Daly
Wall of Eyes by Margaret Millar
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West
The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
... Wolf
An often very disturbing analysis of the core of the vampire mythology.
Not to say it isn't worth reading.;)
Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West are very disturbing books.
Oh yes, I'd forgotten Locust, about time for a reread of that!!! Haven't read the Tolkin's but now they are on the Wishlist! Marise:
Nathanael West's (I almost typed Hawthorne's) The Day of the Locust is, without a doubt, the greatest Hollywood novel ever. And it's just the sort of thing NRYB might republish. Perhaps they'll get around to it soon.
Michael Tolkin's books The Player and The Return ... ... play dealing with machination and women, particularly as they are seen and trapped by society (and men). Okay.
43.) Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathanael West **1/2
I'm just not getting it.
The Cockroaches of Stay More, Donald Harington
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West
The Cricket in Times Square, George Selden
The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
Spider, Patrick McGrath ... of my Heart by Richard Ford
Sucess with Heart Failure by Marc Silver, M.D,
Hearts in Atlantis Stephen King
Miss Lonelyhearts Nathaniel West
Heart of Mid-Lothian by Sir Walter Scott ... I use this for any novel that I finish and still don't understand what happened. Sometimes it's negative (The Stranger, Day of the Locust), sometimes it's positive because I think you were meant to walk away not quite knowing what you read (Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass ... ... tti)
Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky)
Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)
Transposed Heads (Mann)
Faustus (Mann)
Miss Lonleyhearts (West)
New Directions in Poetry and Prose (the first one, 1936)
Flowering Judas and other stories (Porter)
All the King's Men (Penn Warren)
Seve ... The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West A nice, short treat if you're ever up for it. Miss Lonleyhearts and The day of the locust are Nathanael West's most popular two works, both short novellas. West is a deeply romantic figure, a troubled writer who felt continuously out of place, hung out with the bohemian geniuses of his ... ... by James A. Michener
Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard
Rootie Kazootie by Lawrence Naumoff
Enormous Ch ... A must read from the United States?
Well, I'd put Nathaniel West's Miss Lonelyhearts, Willa Cather's Death Comes to the Archbishop, and James Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice on the list, as each is quintessentially American and easily accessible.
For those who love to ... No. 46 Hearts West by Chris Enss - very short 48. Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant
49. Miss Lonely-Hearts by Nathanael West Day of the locust by Nathanael West
Brother Termite by Patricia Anthony
The roaches have no king by Daniel Evan Weiss
The long-legged fly by James Sallis
Phase IV by Barry N. Malzberg ... by William T. Vollmann
The fox by D.H. Lawrence
A horse of air by Dal Stivens
The hippopotamus by Stephen Fry
Day of the locust by Nathanael West
... -- Casino Royale -- the only James Bond book that I know of that has a noir sensibility
Nathaniel West -- Miss Lonelyhearts; satiric, but with enough noir elements to satisfy most fans, methinks
Loren D. Estelman -- Whiskey River -- first in the author's series ... ... the Cherry, I must admit.
Though I am still at work on the excellent Voices from Chernobyl, I also just picked up Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West, because the first very short novella (Miss Lonelyhearts) in it is in 1001 Books you must read before you die and the second (The day ...
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