tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post5682484823715197286..comments2024-02-15T17:04:14.226+01:00Comments on Jane Is The One: Black Swan Greenjanestheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-15368742947060489192011-07-02T11:10:47.392+02:002011-07-02T11:10:47.392+02:00Yes it is. I have seen it too.
Johnson - a man of...Yes it is. I have seen it too.<br /><br />Johnson - a man of immense promise - never found that his work 'took off' as such. This is why he became increasingly dissatisfied - leading to the eventual suicide.<br /><br />Incidentally, the sequel to Rotters Club is disappointing - and I never quite saw the point of What a Carve Up - although it was a recent Radio 4 serialisation hit. But this is no guarantee of anything. <br />Have just started the Alan Hollinghurst novel - The Stranger's Child. Not got far enough into it to judge , as yet. Of his others, the best by far is his first one - The Swimming Pool Library. He got the Booker for The Line of Beauty and it was serialised on the BBC - but I think that it was the subject matter - 1980s Thatcher-style political circles - that entranced people. Not me, especially.... We have had enough Thatcher era stuff -- and are now drowning in a surfeit of Tony/Peter/Gordon etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-15960526594483300262011-07-02T08:00:37.452+02:002011-07-02T08:00:37.452+02:00agree re the BS Johnson work anyway, I downloaded ...agree re the BS Johnson work anyway, I downloaded a TV short film by Johnson which is brilliantjanestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-67143069379606719732011-07-01T23:44:50.131+02:002011-07-01T23:44:50.131+02:00Black Swan Green is fab - read it when it came out...Black Swan Green is fab - read it when it came out. But that is a one off for me as far as that author is concerned. Hate Cloud whatever - and loathe the latest.<br /><br />Rotters Club is okayish - actually, I think it is a less than good re-work of Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush - a late 1960s novel -- ( by Hunter Davies) later a film with Judy Geeson ( remember her?).<br /><br />Coe's latest - written about 2 years ago is about a faded lesbian aged sort. Not very good. However, his biog of the sad and quirky novelist, BS Johnson called 'Like a Fiery Elephant', ( I think) won the Samuel Johnson prize and is so fab it outdoes everything. BSJ died by committing suicide - opened his veins in a bath of warm water. Read it and then read soem BS Johnson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com