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AnotherCat · 03-04-2019, 05:25 PM

Now that Clive James has been nominated I don't feel any great need to nominate anything else

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But I will, and for my attack on "queer" I have selected some books that are, well, just "queer" in themselves (if one gets as far as finishing them, so two are short to lessen the pain). Not sure if any are books to be enjoyed, perhaps important enough to just be persevered with

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The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery - a kid-dolt novella, some say the best book out of France during the 20th Century, but I wonder. There are several translations but no need to worry, they are all much the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott - a geeky satirical novella commenting on Victorian hierarchies (women are stick figures, men are polygons, etc.).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland

Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake - a fairly long Gothic fantasy which has sat on my reading list for a while. There is a library, the library gets burnt. It is a "queer" story" with "queer" characters in a "queer" setting. It is not a short novel so maybe I want to read it as a test to see if I can get through it without coming over "queer" (strange) myself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Groan

But getting back to Clive James - swoon

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03-04-2019, 05:25 PM	#10
AnotherCat .... Posts: 1,547 Karma: 18068960 Join Date: May 2012 Device: ....	Now that Clive James has been nominated I don't feel any great need to nominate anything else . But I will, and for my attack on "queer" I have selected some books that are, well, just "queer" in themselves (if one gets as far as finishing them, so two are short to lessen the pain). Not sure if any are books to be enjoyed, perhaps important enough to just be persevered with . The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery - a kid-dolt novella, some say the best book out of France during the 20th Century, but I wonder. There are several translations but no need to worry, they are all much the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott - a geeky satirical novella commenting on Victorian hierarchies (women are stick figures, men are polygons, etc.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake - a fairly long Gothic fantasy which has sat on my reading list for a while. There is a library, the library gets burnt. It is a "queer" story" with "queer" characters in a "queer" setting. It is not a short novel so maybe I want to read it as a test to see if I can get through it without coming over "queer" (strange) myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Groan But getting back to Clive James - swoon . Last edited by AnotherCat; 03-04-2019 at 05:27 PM.