The BURIED Book Club discussion

Post here please (for MJ's sake and yours) reviews of those books certified BURIED for which you have done your angelic duty of wielding THE spadE!!

Links and/or pastings/ripostings of your reREviews are welcome and suggested. May we suggest, as NUMber-retentive folks that we are, a recording of ### of reviews/ratings at the time of your WORK, that further progress in our unTRENCHing may be known.

Here's a good idea :: link us to your BURIED-Books-themed-shelving arrangement right here on goodreads.

Hither you may come to read the centralEYEzed ARCHiving of RE=viewings of books on their way to return and WALK amongst us as living/breathing TOMES, two by two.

Braggadocio is ENCourAGed [it SHOULD be enforzed!!!]] because YOU have earned it ; your angelic reward is in your BIG WORDS. Photos, photos too if you have them for these rarely seen rARE=bIRDs.

This is a cheat because I haven't written anything about this book, but it is one I am glad to have. It has no rating and my edition, a hardback, is different to the lovely cover shown here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36...

Declan wrote: "This is a cheat ... the lovely cover shown here: http:/..."

I'd happily have your #79 than that other with the lovely cover.

My Mortal Leap review.



It was at 0 ratings and 0 reviews at the time because I had to add the book to the Goodreads database. It's now still only at 24 ratings and 17 reviews, but try to find a used copy of it, I dare you.

My reviews of BURIED author Robert Pinget's Someone and The Inquisitory. As of this writing Someone is at 7 ratings and 1 review (mine) and The Inquisitory at 27 ratings and 7 reviews.

I can barely believe that the Inquisitory was buried so recently -- I'm reading it right now.

As for mine, I've got a shelf for this: http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Lots of Anna Kavan (I can't believe how many more readers she has now), some Carrington, some Vesaas, some Zamyatin. I feel pretty privileged to get to write the first words on such of my favorites. Henceforth, I will report here as well.

Nate D wrote: "I can barely believe that the Inquisitory was buried so recently -- I'm reading it right now.

Well, it wasn't completely buried--it's on Dalkey. But still relatively buried, a low number of reviews and ratings. His most-rated (if not reviewed) book is Mahu, Or, the Material, and it only has 28 ratings.

I like that shelf. Great idea.

Last one until I unBURY some more BURIED authors. My review of The Island of Second Sight by Albert Vigoleis Thelen, who I just added to the unBURIED authors thread.

My reviews of Without a Stitch and Moment of Freedom and The Least of These A Novel of Norway and Our time by Jens Bjorneboe are all up. I have more of the trilogy waiting back in London, so will read and review at the end of June when I get home.

Some vintage covers of BURIED books, originally published by Calder & Boyars and, Alison & Busby (the Mallin books).

Great. Before new reviews are added, my BBC shelf and Dalkey shelf should suffice for my contributions. Love those covers.

Declan wrote: "Some vintage covers of BURIED books, originally published by Calder & Boyars and, Alison & Busby (the Mallin books)."

Nicely done. If I'm not asking too much, and on account of these rare birds being encountered we hope on a spare second-hand book store, Declan, could you perhaps provide us with a spine-oriented photo of some of these Calders?

@others -- excellent to link to BURIED Books related shelving arrangements.

@NateD -- some kind of rusty medal for your previously-unreviewed shelf.

I hope this helps with searching Nathan. I added a few more to fill the picture.

Declan wrote: "I hope this helps with searching Nathan. I added a few more to fill the picture."

Excellent. This kind of visual eases the stress of browsing at accelerated rates amongst elbows and rude people at library book sales; to see and find that rare bird which no one expected to be where it was. Also, it's just beautiful. thnks.

Yes! All of these visuals are fantastic, inspiring, enticing. Thanks!

Review (which I did on my phone on the train, so may re-work later) of Pigeons on the Grass is up. It is a great book, which I think many of you will find interesting.

My review of Stuart Mitchner's Rosamund's Vision:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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My brief review of Rosalyn Drexler's The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays.

Here are links to the three Christine Brooke-Rose reviews by MJ:

Textermination:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Remake:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Out:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

A request to BBC members: Kindly mention the Buried book that you are currently-reading in the appropriate: Currently Exhuming And Consuming thread & your review thereof in the Archive of Unburied Reviews,it'll keep things tidy. Thank you.

Mala wrote: "it'll keep things tidy"

Also, visible. Which will result in more Likes which will result in your having a better day and more folks seeing books walking around which have spent far too much time six feet under the earth.

[Read your CBR]

NR wrote:"[Read your CBR] "

Don't you think CBR has now gotten enough CPR? (view spoiler)[ Folks outside the group also tooting her horn ;-) (hide spoiler)]
I'd rather give my love to some other Buried writer now.

Mala wrote: "[Read your CBR]"

Ambiguity of that "your." I intended to join your address to the membership and repeat the MJ-Scribble chant. Yourself, Mala, is finding those other BURIED folks, yes.

My review of the wonderful "Island of Second Sight", a novel thankfully shaking of the DIRT thanks mainly to Rod. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Here's Bill Thompson review of Because I was Flesh

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

MJ's reviews of–
Such:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Next:


http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

(Non-review of)Between:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thru

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Invisible Author: Last Essays

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Ali wrote: "You people hurt me. No one has ARChiv'd Scribble's CB-R reviews? She's not in the group, and in fairness most of us know they exist and have voted for them, but all the same, for future members and..."

'Oops' moment. Thanks for your post, Ali. Scribble has certainly done a commendable job in 'unburying' CB-R.

Here I enclose my review on Nicholas Mosley's "Impossible Object". What a mind blowing experience.
Impossible Object

Steve wrote: "I read/ have read many books I would deem to have been buried. May I begin with the (East) German poet Johannes Bobrowski? As a brief introduction, here is a link to one of my reviews of his work:
..."

The link did not work; this is the URL:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Steve wrote: "Steve wrote: "I read/ have read many books I would deem to have been buried. May I begin with the (East) German poet Johannes Bobrowski? As a brief introduction, here is a link to one of my reviews..."

Steve,on this thread we are archiving the reviews for writers-poets on our BBC roster. Is this poet there? I think not. But you are welcome here,pls create a thread for that particular writer/poet ( after checking that he meets the selection criteria,a bit tiresome,I know!). Dear Moderator,you need to take a call on this,I think.

NR's review of Textermination:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Steve wrote: "I read/ have read many books I would deem to have been buried. May I begin with the (East) German poet Johannes Bobrowski?"


Yes please do. He'll need a thread up which he might klettern out of his BURIal chamber.

Excellent! I have added Bobrowski to the author list and herewith add a link to my review of a selection of Bobrowski's poetry made and published relatively recently by Klaus Wagenbach:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18...

Hackenfeller's Ape
Future To Let

The Narrow Waters by Gracq
Impossible Object by Mosley
The Ship by HH Jahnn

more to come...

General Piesc or, The Case of the Forgotten Mission
The Snow Ball

NR has tossed about an assortment of words and cat pictures on the subject of Steve Katz's Saw.

I've got a review up for Nicole Brossard's Mauve Desert. The book itself isn't exactly entirely buried, but most of her stuff is. More Brossard readers please.

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

There are also other reviews there for your edification; may I specifically draw your attention to Spade-wielder Nate D's.

A couple months of things read under the auspices of this group:

Buried gems:
A Book
Erowina
The Cosmopolitan girl
A Balcony in the Forest
Moving Parts
Five Legs

Puzzling artifacts in need of further study:
The Hospital Ship
Landscapes after the Battle

Buried pulp that will harm no one by remaining buried:
The Planet Dweller

Thanks for the BACKward-spective, Nate SIR.

My review of The Twilight of the Bums:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

my review of Working Cats by Oswell Blakeston.

The Hack

My review of Take Five:

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Since mid-July:

Buried brilliance:
Out (Christine Brooke-Rose, of course, but with only 3 ratings?!)

Nicole Brossard's further Blue Books, which deserve better readers than me:
Sold-out: Etreinte/illustration / Turn of a Pang
French kiss, or, A pang's progress

Borderline-buried new wave sci-fi oddity:
Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

Too new to be buried, but excellent and in need of much help avoiding premature burial:
The Plight House

Thelen's The Island of Second Sight :

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thelen's Glis-Glis

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

My review of Drexler's The Cosmopolitan Girl is here.

Brooke-Rose's Textermination :

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

some CBR from me Subscript
and also Palinuro of Mexico

I feel like I have done more SPADEwork than this recently, but I think my current Gaddis-obsession has kind of taken over...

Looks like I never posted my Palinuro of Mexico review here. Here it is.