The BURIED Book Club discussion

A folder here for the obligatory (YES! we have obligations HERE) "Beg to Report!" upon the exhumation you find yourself currently and concurrently involved herein and thereby. Again, within a Group which is ReDUNDant with ALL of gooDReads we have ANotheR fORlder which finds itself too redunDant of the Group, etc; BUT I guess the way it might work is give the thread SOME kind of NAME and RePORT what you have to RE:port so we can keep TABs on you like an outdated soda from the seventies. LET the EXhumATion BEginAGAIN to CuntinTUE.

Should you create a thread in this CURrently Folder, please do be sure that your author also receives proper notation over in Alphabetical Row down below, keeping our DUCKS well ROWed.

Soundtrack:
Exhume to Consume by Carcass
[hipsters and indie rockers need not apply]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIwsDt...

Currently E&C-ing Chateau d'Argol

Palinuro of Mexico

Also, folks, create THREADS in this here FOLDER should you have near-future intentions to ExCAVEate a book, an author, geflugelte Worte, and perhaps would like to be joined by a company of Mitleser. alSO, if you just have need of esteem-enforcement, just you go ahead with thRED cREation. Even when and IF ALL such is welcoME hERe tooooo. [IVE no clue how this FOLDer is to ORGANized, not at all, but here's IVES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbArUJ...]

Currently exhuming Without a Stitch

Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales by Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and Many More

CVV assembled,edited & also translated Balzac's story from the French into English. Enjoying it!

About to begin on N Wiener's The Tempter; unequivocally genius in the realms of math & science, one expects perhaps less achievement in the literary direction; but we'll just have to see!!

Mala wrote: "Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales by Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and Many More

CVV assembled,edited & also translated Balzac's story from the French into English. Enjoying it!"

Txs. This is news to me.

I'm DIGging into Amos Berry by Allan Seager, an author who appears to need unEARTHing.

Enrique wrote: "2> I love that book. Read it twice. Need to again. Don't care that I can't make complete sense of it, as understanding is secondary to the lush aesthetics of its prose. Prose richer than Proust..."

hi enrique,some years ago, i slogged through the entire Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, 2 Vols. it took me along time, but it was worth it. i don't think she really wrote much else.

Finished Without a Stitch and put up a review (which I may amend when I have more time). Now on to find more of this unfairly BURIED author...

Just added Irmtraud Morgner to the unBURIED Authors K-P folder. Her The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos is an epistolary, genre-mashing, metanarrative social critique of the German Democratic Republic of the '70s as a modern-day fairy-tale myth.

It doesn't really merit its own thread, but I just read a buried novel by the unburied writer, but sadly recently-buried human, Roger Ebert: Behind the Phantom's Mask

:: Exhume to Consume

Grimly I dig up the turfs
To remove the corrupted stiffs
Trying to contain my excitement
As I desecrate graveolent crypts...
Fingers claw at coffin lids
Eager festal exhumation
Hugging your wry, festered remains
With post-humous joy and elation...
Body snatched, freshly interred
Whatever takes my fancy
To satisfy my gratuitous pica
My culinary necromancy...
Scrutinised then brutalised
My forensic inquisition is fulfiled
My recipe is now your epitaph
Be it fried, boiled or grilled...

--courtesy of Carcass

I am currently snacking upon the remains of Marguerite Young's encomic harp song to a lost chapter of american hisstory, Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. It is history in an almost lyrical mode.

Also being disinterred and served up on the house's finest silver serving ware is Arno Schmidt's Nobodaddy's Children: Scenes from the Life of a Faun, Brand's Heath, Dark Mirrors, a trilogy of novellas :: and which might require some serious tenderizing before we know what the hell this is all about. Some corpses might be rendered rare via flash-flame ;; whilst others of 'em require the long slow stewing of tough and sinewy morsels but when done properly by a proper HausFRAU, ~melt~in~mouth~ ::

Finest silver serving ware & succulent meat eh? That's some decadent living!
Well carry on,do share some tasty morsels by way of updates with us vicarious folks.

Mala wrote: "by way of updates with us vicarious folks"

It's been tough and sinewy to do that. Any excerpt from either would mislead one into believing something false about it ;; that Schmidt is straight forward && that Young is SURrealisticisch. But I'll attempt a gleaning of something glimmering, glowing, and just plain-down-home finger-snappable.

Wasn't there an Alan Burns threads around here somewhere?

I just got his Europe After the Rain. (and the Inquisitory) out of the vaults of the Brooklyn Public Library, simultaneously disinterring/enjoying both.

Here's a bit of the Burns:

It was not that I was indifferent, I was not, but I was calm, I had no part of her trembling. I felt that I did not care for the means by which this women's had been broken, but I was relieved when I was no longer with her. This was deplorable, but the fact remained. There had been a number of factors and their effect had been cumulative.

It's all like this: a flood of vague actions and ruined people in undescribed landscapes of post-war or post-disaster destruction. The title, of course, is a (favorite) Ernst painting:

Nate D wrote: "Wasn't there an Alan Burns threads around here somewhere?"

Negatori.

Well, soon there will be one.

I had meant to get around to Burns as he is another author I discovered a long time ago when I used to buy many of the Calder books. He also wrote some useful non-fiction books: one about The Angry Brigade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angr...) and another, which he co-edited with Charles Sugnet, called The Imagination on Trial, which was a series of interviews with other innovative writers including JG Ballard, Eva Figes, John Gardiner, BS Johnson and - especially valued by me - Tom Mallin. Psheeee, I've almost got an entry written! I will contribute something thorough soon, promise.

Declan, you are 100 percent of the reason that there are two Burns books in my apartment right now, so I'm completely indebted there. Thank you! But I'll still make an entry for him if I get to first. (perhaps after I read one more).

Thanks Nate. I'm very pleased that GR can work in this way and that we end up influencing each others reading. It's great that a writer like Burns can be connected with an inquisitive reader who will appreciate his novels. It's quite a while since I read him, so you will be better able to describe his writing style having just read one or two of his books.

Can I suggest a thread where we can link (or paste) our reviews of successfully exHUMED books?

okay. a link would suffice, methinks.

MJ wrote: "Can I suggest a thread where we can link (or paste) our reviews of successfully exHUMED books?"

The respective author thread? But if you're earnest about your exhumation you'll link your review on every planet from here to Ceti Alpha V.

A thread for our reviews of BURIED books so we can keep track in an archival way. Make it happppppen!

MJ wrote: "A thread for our reviews of BURIED books so we can keep track in an archival way. Make it happppppen!"

Did it happppppen?

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...

Next up for me is The Island of Second Sight, based on Rod's recommendation and his pioneering review.
Our library has wishfully placed this book in the New and *popular* section.

Currently reading Rosamund's Vision: A Novel by Stuart Mitchner
So happy with ABE Books-they delivered the book almost two weeks before scheduled date!
They got one loyal customer now :-)

Mala wrote: "Currently reading Rosamund's Vision: A Novel by Stuart Mitchner
So happy with ABE Books-they delivered the book almost two weeks before scheduled date!
They got one loyal customer now :-)"

I like ABEbooks, but they just have resellers like the Amazon Marketplace (a lot of the same ones, actually). Some ship fast, others are as slow as molasses.

I heard that ABE is part owned by Amazon but Amazon doesn't ship to UAE ( perhaps no local partner agreed to their profit sharing ratios!),so ABE is good for ppl like me. Next I'll try the Book Depository for the Moore book- they don't charge for shipping!

More items from the Brooklyn library Central Storage. Currently: Martin Bax's The Hospital Ship.

Weird, possibly post-apocalyptic medical investigation intercut with clippings of ordinary 70s scientific and business news -- examples of the world teetering on the brink?

Currently I'm reading Take Five by D.Keith Mano (I had to form this link since the shortcut method directs to this: Take Five. Anyway, before this I read Island People which was awesome.

I caught the Island People review when it first went up, and loved it!, Garima!

Currently exhuming: Tom Mallin's Erowina, which skips style in the space of two chapters, from "coroner's report" to "obliteratedly drunken bawdy scots"

The latter (cleverly lewd dialect wordplay) recalls later Arno Schmidt, actually.

Garima wrote: "Currently I'm reading Take Five by D.Keith Mano (I had to form this link since the shortcut method directs to this: Take Five. Anyway, before this I read Island People which was awesome."

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[if, when using the "add book/author" function you, under the "book" tab, enter "take five mano" you'll get what you need. I've also discovered recently that with an additional click one can choose the specific edition] Take Five

Nate D wrote: "I caught the Island People review when it first went up, and loved it!, Garima!"

Thank you, Nate! I'm a bit chuffed to see the number of people who added the book to their tbr list.

@Nathan: Oh alright! Thanks :)

For late night snack last night I was a little eager to start frying some decayed Steve Katz. Saw (1972) is his third book. I'm too early in to say anything informative except to say that the aroma of frying Katz is quite pleasant.

Federman, patron saint of The BURIED Book Club, I'm currently consuming in BUM form :: The Twilight of the Bums (microfictions).

Good news for ebook-ers :: here's the alt-x version :::::
http://www.altx.com/ebooks/content1.html
Unfortunately, it's the first edition of 2001 and lacks much of the contribution by artist T. Motley. So it goes.

I thought CBR is our Patron Saint! How many are we going to have? I don't want any personality clashes :p

Thanks for the ebook/pdf version– downloaded it :-)

Mala wrote: "I thought CBR is our Patron Saint! How many are we going to have?"

There'll be more.

This morning I passed a church which displayed a Prayer Box next to their newspaper collection/fundraising box. I slipped a prayer request in there for the continued BREATHING of our BURIED and HONORED good authors. But now I'm not sure which box I put it in.

Enjoy the Featherman!

I know genre writing gets short shrift here with (usually) good cause, but the sci-fi stacks in the back of my local bookstore in Midwood, Brooklyn, far from the usual unburying eyes, are the most esoteric I've seen in greater New York, and they're pretty heavy on non-re-printed new wave-era material.

So while The Planet Dweller was pretty awful, I'm pleasantly surprised by the deep-buried quality of Marta Randall's Islands, which I bought equally blindly for $2.

In a future where aging has been entirely overcome by medical science, our narrator is the one women for whom the treatment has failed, now in her 60s and the only human on earth past early-20s health. Interesting discussion of mortality and our cult of cosmetic beauty, deftly told in a fragmented timeline that does away with the pacing issues of much storytelling spread over half a century. Great sense of fantastic place at points too, which is one of those cursory pleasures of science fiction that remains nonetheless a pleasure.

Nate D wrote: "I know genre writing gets short shrift here with (usually) good cause, but the sci-fi stacks..."

The next undisCOVER'd Dune would be veryvery welcome in these here parts ;; the Dunne sequels, not so much to not at all. Doubtless some fun stuff among the pulpy=papers ;; and doubtless some fun AND good stuff there=among too.

I am very pleased. To be currently=unEARTH'ing two fantastic BURIED books which each deserve a HUGE readership. I mean, these are FÁNtastic books ::

School for Atheists: A Novella = Comedy in 6 Acts
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling

Books such as these is what I like to think The BURIED Book Club is fòr.

Both these books there can be had for very little $$$.

Currently I am re-reading Edouard Dujardins LES LAURIERS SONT COUPES. It was first published in 1887, belongs to the french symbolism, was an inspirational source for Mr. Joyce and is probably one of the first books using the stream of consciousness / interior monologue technique. Does it qualify as a BURIED BOOK?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

"Geschnittener..." Okay, that's enough, it's buried.

Michael wrote: "Currently I am re-reading Edouard Dujardins LES LAURIERS SONT COUPES. It was first published in 1887, belongs to the french symbolism, was an inspirational source for Mr. Joyce and is probably one of the first books using the stream of consciousness / interior monologue technique. Does it qualify as a BURIED BOOK?"

Pay the Z no mind. But indeed, it is BURIED! ADD please (we add by BURIED author, because in my world author equals books). Since you are currently spading the earth out from around this work, posting here is great. Generally, if you have a question about a book qualifying as BURIED, I've set up the May I ADD Please thread for double checking those Q's. Also, I talk funny.

I'm glad I was able to find one of the novels of German writter Jules Siber, who wrote such enticing sounding novels as "Satan Triumphator", "Der Antichrist" and "Paganini. Ein Roman von alten Göttern und Hexentänzen" which translates to "Paganini, A Romance of Old Gods and Witch-Dances". This novel I did find online is his "Seelenwanderung", about spirit transference which confronts a 20th century violinist with a sculptor sentenced for "Sodomy" in 1654.

Any people who can read German can read it here

https://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/see...

Also found a fantastical novel by Maximilian Maulbecker, and discovered and found his other book, whose subtitle translated to "Immoral pieces" it seems.

I wish I could find the others and the 1916 German translation of the Carlo Dadone short story collection and novels I'm looking for, since Dadone has been compared to both Poe and Hoffmann.

Reposted this from my post at Literary Darkness since I figured you guys would really like the idea of Siber and his weird weird books ^^