Open magazine carries my review of the twice Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's new book, Parrot and Olivier in America. They called it "Too Much to Handle".
Your comments welcome.
Incidentally, Carey is the man who finds anonymous mention in the third line of this post.
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11 comments:
I take this as praise, coming from the author of Roadrunner? --"I found Parrot and Olivier rambling and almost dense at times. Hard to keep up with the characters, their doings, the references to episodes that may or may not have happened a hundred pages earlier. The closer I got to the end, the more the remaining pages seemed to stretch ahead, like completing a marathon."
dcubed, i want to suggest to you that when people like anony above write comments, clearly annoyed by your writing, you should consider it a badge of hounour.
please keep writing and getting poeople to think.
-rk
Rk - glad this got you thinking. I am happy to keep writing comments for your benefit. Do you agree with my comment though? I leveled a direct criticism. Your rebuttal was sideways.
anony, in some another comment dcubed left today (another post), he mentioned about that he is writing to "give people things to think about that may be jarring and may not make sense to them".
the answer for you is there. if you are annoyed by his writing, dcubed should think of it as a badge of honour.
you can infer about my agreement.
-rk
Rk- thanks -- that was a good response. It basically ties in to my first statement -- that since ddd found P&O somewhat rambling and dense, he is indeed stimulated to think and is saluting the badge of honour worn by Parrot and Olivier. Neat.
I am honoured by this ongoing debate in these comments, even if I cannot comprehend any of it. Please keep it up and I shall continue to be honoured and live in hope of eventual comprehension.
Getting all the people Olivier to think, not simply Parrot, is the point. DDD, you are obviously stimulated by our confoundingly obtuse debate, which makes it worthy of a badge of honour for birds of all feathers, Roadrunner or Parrot. You agree RK?
Olivier people maybe can be Parrot of this enterprise. But all of my people, I'm not sure. I don't know feather they know what they are doing in the first place.
As long as Oliver people have complete Parroty with Alamo people while on the Road, Running. There is an ancient saying in journalism: "What is Source for the Goose is Source for the Gander", DDD, my wear-feather friend! RK I hope you are following and will weigh in soon.
Where've you been?
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Why weren't you here? I've had too much to Handel, I want my sanity Bach!
Well, Vivaldi shopping I've had to do, I've really been Bizet.
Verdi hell do you get the energy, Beethoven one thing and another? I see them Mahler time, Debussy people, and very Offenbach in Pune.
Pune? You know, I think it is a Saint-Saens place, Kamshet is much nicer.
I Telemann, get in a plane and Tchaikovsky for a holiday! Clearly you need one. Anton Chekov for Texas, Goethe-it?
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(Copied from Decomposers of de past).
I don't know how long I can Carey this discussion forward. Perhaps it is Peter-ing out.
Yes, us birds are eggs-hosted! -- Besides -rk has ditched us after deflecting my well-aimed darts. Your last salvo, DDD, was deafening. Until I canopy into your blog next time -- Parrot Trooper.
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