ghosting wrote:Funny enough, when I think of Coetzee that's not the first thing that comes to mind that doesn't square with me. The endless vegetarian debate does though...

*Spoilers below*

Well, aren’t Disgrace and Slow Man both kind of about indifferent old dudes surprised to find that nobody wants to twirl and jitter for their lack of appreciation anymore? Not even, as in Slow Man, for an hourly wage? Men who suddenly then want to give back, only to find that nobody’s taking?

I thought “The Blow” was infinitely superior to the book it came from because the protagonist respects Marijana’s happiness and contents himself with the so very little he can do for her with his savings and his ruined limbs. In Slow Man he tries to break up her marriage. Not empathizable, tries my patience. Dude had his chance to be loved.

Yeah, I wonder what Updike and co. are trying to exorcise by writing these things.

I knew someone who knew someone who had an affair with this author. There are also stories about him and college girls on the U of C campus. He gets around...

Unfortunately, he named his college-age lover in one of his books the same name as me, so occasionally I get asked if I was "the one". Ha. no.

Ace wrote:I knew someone who knew someone who had an affair with this author. There are also stories about him and college girls on the U of C campus. He gets around...

Unfortunately, he named his college-age lover in one of his books the same name as me, so occasionally I get asked if I was "the one". Ha. no.

Ace, you could be the Perez Hilton of the literature and film. Love it!

tocharian wrote:

Ace wrote:I knew someone who knew someone who had an affair with this author. There are also stories about him and college girls on the U of C campus. He gets around...

Unfortunately, he named his college-age lover in one of his books the same name as me, so occasionally I get asked if I was "the one". Ha. no.

Ace, you could be the Perez Hilton of the literature and film. Love it!

Well, we share the fact that while interesting things happen around us, they never seem to quite happen TO us. I don't know which I'd prefer, actually...

I've only read "The Life and Times of Michael K" which is outstanding. Being reminded of it by this thread makes me feel silly for not reading more by him, or indeed rereading this book. Magnificent, NC.

Ace wrote:

tocharian wrote:

Ace wrote:I knew someone who knew someone who had an affair with this author. There are also stories about him and college girls on the U of C campus. He gets around...

Unfortunately, he named his college-age lover in one of his books the same name as me, so occasionally I get asked if I was "the one". Ha. no.

Ace, you could be the Perez Hilton of the literature and film. Love it!

Well, we share the fact that while interesting things happen around us, they never seem to quite happen TO us. I don't know which I'd prefer, actually...

Oh. I actually get what you're talking about...

How old is that guy? 60's? Dirty old bastard. (They did say that book was great though in the Times Book Review. The title slips my mind.)