THE BORE

General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 06, 2007, 06:08:31 PM

Title: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 06, 2007, 06:08:31 PM
Fortunately, they included a sample in the solicitation email so I can know to avoid them like the bubonic plague.

It's about a MAN who lost his WIFE and returns to his CHILDHOOD HOME to contemplate LIFE LOVE AND LOSS

Quote from: book club
They departed, the gods, on the day of the strange tide. All
morning under a milky sky the waters in the bay had swelled and
swelled, rising to unheard-of heights, the small waves creeping
over parched sand that for years had known no wetting save for
rain and lapping the very bases of the dunes. The rusted hulk
of the freighter that had run aground at the far end of the bay
longer ago than any of us could remember must have thought it
was being granted a relaunch. I would not swim again, after
that day. The seabirds mewled and swooped, unnerved, it seemed,
by the spectacle of that vast bowl of water bulging like a
blister, lead-blue and malignantly agleam. They looked
unnaturally white, that day, those birds. The waves were
depositing a fringe of soiled yellow foam along the waterline.
No sail marred the high horizon. I would not swim, no, not ever
again.

Someone has just walked over my grave. Someone.

On and on and on. Jesus.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 06, 2007, 06:09:09 PM
jesus, that reads like the shit i wrote my senior year of high school, KILL ME NOW
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 06, 2007, 06:09:25 PM
Sounds like Love Liza
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on August 06, 2007, 06:09:58 PM
spoiler:

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It won the Man Booker Prize in 2005!
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 :(
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Van Cruncheon on August 06, 2007, 06:11:21 PM
ironically, i've become incapable of writing because i'm so critical of my own shit. i write a couple pages, and then beat myself up for sucking. :'(
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: TVC15 on August 06, 2007, 06:19:47 PM
Sounds like the adult novelization of Garden State.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: border on August 06, 2007, 09:04:36 PM
John Banville's "Ghosts" was one of my favorite books in school.  This doesn't sound quite so good though.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 06, 2007, 09:06:30 PM
 :lol god thats sickening to read. 
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on August 06, 2007, 09:07:20 PM
Sounds like the adult novelization of Garden State.

lol Yea, but garden state at least had a kind of happy ending.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: bagofeyes on August 06, 2007, 09:09:45 PM
That's worse than that book I wrote about my cat dying
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on August 06, 2007, 09:11:21 PM
That's worse than that book I wrote about my cat dying

Can we get an exerpt?
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: bagofeyes on August 06, 2007, 09:15:47 PM
Nah, I threw it in a fire
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 06, 2007, 09:17:59 PM
Nah, I threw it in a fire

to burn with your cat? 
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: bagofeyes on August 06, 2007, 09:20:06 PM
Yep. They departed, the gods, on the day of that strange fire.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 06, 2007, 09:21:17 PM
 :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: The Fake Shemp on August 07, 2007, 02:39:12 AM
 :lol
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Oblivion on August 07, 2007, 02:45:16 AM
Since this is a topic on books, I might as well ask.

How do book publishers advertise their books? I swear, I haven't seen any book commercials for years. The last one I saw was Black Lightning and that was at like 1 AM on USA.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: Fresh Prince on August 07, 2007, 04:46:41 AM
Sounds like the adult novelization of Garden State.
:lol, god that was such a emofest movie.
Title: Re: My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 07, 2007, 10:55:36 AM
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/517VNGMH84L._AA240_.jpg)

Not depressed? Watch this and you will be.