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#91 Catreona
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis is the one I read. It is set in and inn by the name of the Green Man. The PBS/BBC TV production of it was creepy but I didn't find the book to be as creepy. Perhaps because I had already seen the movie there were no surprises so therefore no ... #279 smiley
I had quite forgotten that I had read The Green Man probably 15 years ago. Or more. :-) I saw it done as a PBS production and liked the story. That lead me to the book. Perhaps, I should add a Kingsley Amis book or two to my TBR pile as I recall that Green Man was quite ... ... still fun. I liked it so much that went on a Kingsley Amis tear. The only one I really liked was The Old Devils. The Green Man and The Alteration were interesting. OK, I will admit to having read The Green Man, many many years ago. I remember it as a very poor book, unlike his Lucky Jim. How about something totally different now, for me also a blast from the past, Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz? The Green Man is another one I have not read, but I'm posting so I can get it into a touchstone and thus add it to the master list at the right side of the page. ... picked up an almost good-as-new edition of Tales From Earthsea, as well as The Kraken Wakes (I love that title) and The Green Man from my trusty used book store, then trundled down to the little local new book store and picked up Icefields which sounds very good. The sun is shining, ... ... Leaves
Morvern Callar (not horror, but gross and weird)
The Wasp Factory (again, not horror in the typical sense)
The Green Man (not really scary, but has ghosts)
A Clockwork Orange (horrifying, but not horror)
Naked Lunch (same thing)
At the Mountains of Madness
The ... ...
I recently picked up a used copy of One Fat Englishman (of course i've read the famous Lucky Jim, Jake's Thing and The Green Man, and it is on my to-read list; just from the back blurb, it makes me wonder if it is at all related to Money by Martin Amis? if you've read it, don't reveal ... ... piece of science fiction based on the premise that the Reformation never happened. Goring becomes a Papal legate. The Green man was made into a good movie for Albert Finney.
The letters between the poet Phillip Larkin and Amis are interesting.
Hope you enjoyed Lucky Jim.
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