Still

by Adam Thorpe

Book Overview

(Still is actually a film in fiction. It's as bright and disjointed as The Waste Land' Observer) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0436520680
• ISBN13: 9780436520686
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Length: 583 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A mad, very funny, black ride through a delusional mind...

This is undoubtedly my favourite book of all time. Pretty big call I know and particularly considering the fact that it took me about three goes before I actually could finish the first chapter. Why? It is initially quite a difficult read, breaking nearly every writing convention I had learnt. Few sentence breaks, no 'new paragraph for a new thought' philosophy here. I found it quite frustrating at first, having not previously been exposed to stream-of-consciousness writing. If you persevere, and allow yourself to be immersed in the flow of the character's thoughts, you will be richly rewarded with an extremely humourous and very, very clever piece of writing. I read this book about 2 years ago and even now, some of the 'scenes' remain so beautifully clear and funny in my mind. Particularly when I'm sucking on M & Ms....I cannot commend this book highly enough. I urge anyone out there to read it and allow yourself to be swept away with the words and the wit.

ohmygodidon'tknowwhattodo

it's thick as the London phone book, god, and every line stream of consciousness what's that oh a fly it's in the airplane you wonder if they know they're flying in the plane i mean anyway it's about Ricky Thornby who never was, he never was anything much but a down at heel producer of industrials well maybe the Eisenstein of industrials, but still... fan as i am of adam thorpe, and acquainted with ricky from Clive's Seasons, you know, the little dreary Beeb thing at the end of ulverton the part with the skeleton and all, anyway, fan as i am, this book still scared the hell out of me i mean 600 pages or so and all like this only more tough sledding sledding would it be citizen kane or ulysses or some Blooming other thing, well, it was Ricky, ricky and his secrets revealed a word and a word until my word it takes your breath away and you will never forget it