well wuthered

[adelaidesean]

I've also been reading in recent weeks. Here's what. Thanks to everyone who suggested titles or sent them as trades. All of them so far have been terrific!

• Necropolis: London and its Dead, by Catharine Arnold
• A Book of Endings, Deborah Biancotti
• Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte
• Into the Silence, S H Courtier
• The Mystery of Rosa Portland, Diane Fahey
• The Nimrod Flip-Out, Etgar Keret
• Laughing Buddha, Daniel G Lanoue
• Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
• Deaf Sentence, David Lodge
• Wild Surmise, Dorothy Porter
• The Shrieking Pit, Arthur J Rees
• Writers of the Future XXV, ed. K D Wentworth

I can't believe it took me so long to read Wuthering Heights.  It was awesome, in a terrifying way.  (Still can't believe it wasn't intended as a satire, and I still can't tell if that it makes more or less a brutal experience.)  I was thinking of Sense and Sensibility next, or maybe Cranford.  Any other suggestions?

Comments

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Agreed re Wild Surmise. I don't think it's possible to spruik Porter too much. She is terrific.

Is The Rest Is Noise the same book you blogged about recently?

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was the one with the anecdote about Sriabins music that was intended to end the world. I'm enjoying it, but I keep being distracted by things like fiction.

I'm also wishing I hadn't missed a lot of our annual new music festival here, including a chance to see a Stockhausen piece performed.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd love to hear something by Stockhausen. What piece was it?

I'm really interested in music that's found or contains chaotic elements, partly because it means they can be performed many times without repetition. It's doubly a shame, then, when they're hardly ever performed. :-(

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

It was Kontakte. I went to see a pretty good solo set by one of the performers last night, a guy named Pimmon, and now I'm regretting missing it even more.