My book club wants to read John Banville's "The Sea"

[Howard Alan Treesong]

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

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.

[Van Cruncheon]

jesus, that reads like the shit i wrote my senior year of high school, KILL ME NOW

[MrAngryFace]

Sounds like Love Liza

[Howard Alan Treesong]

spoiler:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

It won the Man Booker Prize in 2005!

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[Van Cruncheon]

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. :'(

[TVC15]

Sounds like the adult novelization of Garden State.

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John Banville's "Ghosts" was one of my favorite books in school.  This doesn't sound quite so good though.

[Madrun Badrun]

  god thats sickening to read. 

[FlameOfCallandor]

Sounds like the adult novelization of Garden State.

lol Yea, but garden state at least had a kind of happy ending.

[bagofeyes]

That's worse than that book I wrote about my cat dying

[FlameOfCallandor]

That's worse than that book I wrote about my cat dying

Can we get an exerpt?

[bagofeyes]

Nah, I threw it in a fire

[Madrun Badrun]

Nah, I threw it in a fire

to burn with your cat? 

[bagofeyes]

Yep. They departed, the gods, on the day of that strange fire.

[Madrun Badrun]

 

[The Fake Shemp]

 

[Oblivion]

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.

[Fresh Prince]

Sounds like the adult novelization of Garden State.

, god that was such a emofest movie.

[MrAngryFace]

Not depressed? Watch this and you will be.