@DauntBooksPub@vicgrinberg Ah, The Satanic Verses is great! So clever and funny and thought provoking and sad. Wish I had studied it with an English teacher. Enjoy!
@Annaspanner I'm looking forward to it! I've read it many years ago, back then in German translation, and it felt like the right moment to buy it in English (because the bookshop had it, because of Rushdie recently getting the German Booksellers' Piece Prize and because the book I was reading on the tube the same day I bought this one, Ian M Banks' The State of the Art mentioned it).
@vicgrinberg@DauntBooksPub Oh blimey. I'm emailing Orbit books right now to see how long that hardback will be in production for, because I'm not entirely certain I can afford the €60 until next year, but I don't want to miss out on getting a copy. Hopefully it's a really big run, because it would be nice to have this to go with the signed copy of Matter I got when I met Iain.
@mann_ey neither was I! They are very much something Banks seems to have done for himself not for the publication but I enjoyed them (don'texpect professional artist work, though!) :)
@vicgrinberg@DauntBooksPub Big like! Currently also reading "Entangled Life". Loved the Culture Series and didn't know there is an art book about it, curious if it can hold up to the images that I had in my mind, Iain M Bank was excellent with describing landscapes after all. Also as a Koraen learner who is interested in the culture I should put the Tteokbokki book on my list (tteokbokki as a food are very yummy by the way).
@meliache the Art book is a bit different - it's banks own sketches. So they aren't quiet artsy - but they show some of the thinking behind his designs (lots of handwritten notes on them). So it's more about the thinking behind it than actually art if that makes sense?
I'm curious about the book - it's a bit different to what I usually read but it somehow reminded me of "my lesbian experience with loneliness" which I loved so I got it (I go to this particular bookshop to be inspired like this).
@maelduin13 the problem is that I have a lot more than one bookshelf with unread books 🤣 That said, I DO need lots since I never know what I will be in the mood for next!
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You know you've got a problem if you have to give books away because you stopped being interested in the topic before you got round to reading them!
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