Completists' Club discussion

This is the inside scoop :: Do not even consider applying for a position as coffer=gopher at Dalkey Archive without having first read the following TEN titles.

In no particular order here is his list:

1. The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien
2. Point Counter Point, Huxley
3. Impossible Object, Nicholas Mosley
4. Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson
5. Billy and Girl, Deborah Levy
6. Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky
7. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things, Gilbert Sorrentino
8. Chinese Letter, Svetislav Basara
9. Vain Art of the Fugue, Dumitru Tsepeneag
10. Scenes from a Receding Past, Aidan Higgins
11. Some Thing Black, Jacques Roubaud
12. Europeana, Patrik Ourednik
13. anything by Djuna Barnes [sic ; "everything"]
14. Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist & Structuralist Views

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I have read one! And part of thirteen? So...one point something? Planning on reading three others?

I am not worthy (yet).

Aubrey wrote: "I have read one! And part of thirteen? So...one point something? Planning on reading three others?
I am not worthy (yet)."

Then I'm one point something BETTER THAN YOU!!! I've read approximately .ZERO.

But and those criticism volumes cause even more Dalkey=faith within my breast.

Imaginative Qualities I imagine will be my NEXT from this here list right here.

I've read four, heh... not shabby.

I have read 4.

Most of these are not what I would've expected at all. For instance, it's only by a weird fluke have I read that book by Tsepeneag, whose name please council me on how to pronounce. While fun, it certainly didn't seem like a major star in the Dalkey heavens.

I have read two on this list. I will probably read a third one, B & G, sometime in the next few weeks, since DA group has it up for discussion and I have had it on my tbr for a while anyway.

hmm..4 done so far (1,3,4 +12) and planning to read 5 next.

Nathan - Not having reading number 1 on that list is a sin against the Gods of Great Novels. Please rectify the situation asap...I promise you will never see bicycles in the same light again.

Jonathan wrote: "a sin against the Gods of Great Novels"

ditto for a few others on that list.

Flann's been haunting me since my early days on goodreads ;; my only excuse...I'm waiting for the complete/collected Flann to fall in my hands. That strategy is not working.

1,3,4,&7 have been and will continue to be on my urgent-education list. Most of the rest are "about time I heard about these."

Somehow, despite reading different books by several of those, I'm also still at utter zero point. Or wait, I have read "anything" by Barnes, at least. Not yet everything.

I actually re-read the last, incredible, chapter of Nightwood at a bookseller's table yesterday. I had the Dalkey-restored edition, so I wanted to scan an old New Directions uncorrected version for differences.

Have read 7/14. No plans to read Viktor Shklovsky or Russian Formalism so make mine 12/14 completion.