2 English climbers - Joe Simpson and Simon Yates - try to climb an
unclimbed peruvian peak only to meet with disaster. Nobody dies - but
you'd'a thought it would have been easier than what Simpson goes
through to get off the peak.
Roger
On 4/26/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> who is Touching The Void by? Don't know that one
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap - What is the saddest book ever written?
> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:46:20 +0100
>
> Unreliable Memoirs & Falling Toward England were both hilarious.
>
> 3 Men in a Boat left me cold.
>
> Bill Hicks is funny, however that was too much information there.
>
> A terrifying book is Touching The Void - nearly every page turn is,
> "no, eww, you cannot do that!"
>
> Roger
> On 4/26/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >have you ever read Testament To Youth ? gaspingly achingly sad and yet
> >redemptive with the soldiers arriving at the field station with stories of
> >angels they had seen on the battlefield - or should I say above the
> >battlefield? they seemed to be usually hovering above
> >
> >I don't know any of the writers you mention - but writers who have made me
> >laugh out loud while I am reading them are Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men In A
> >Boat) Thurber (I was reading him on my first visit to Venice last year and
> >I
> >was having Thurber screams on the Grand Canal )and Clive James - Unreliable
> >Memoirs.
> >
> >Also I always beg the son not to put a Bill Hicks video on because he makes
> >me wet myself and beg for mercy.
> >
> >----Original Message Follows----
> >From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Abrupt Snap
> >Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:02:49 +0100
> >
> >At the time, "Post Office" was dangerously funny for me, though I haven't
> >read Bukowski since. I didn't have an extremely sad experience during that
> >stay in the hospital, so I'm a bit surprised your husband had an equally
> >painful physiological experience with a very sad book.
> >
> >If a writer can make me laugh hysterically during a live reading (examples
> >which come to mind right now include Ed Dorn, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman,
> >Christian Bok, & Jaap Blonk), I consider that reaction as a marker of high
> >quality.
> >
> >Barry
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:20:14 +1000, Jennifer Compton
> ><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > >Is Post Office funny? I have been meaning to read that for a while.
> > >
> > >You made me remember husband in hospital for 2 hernias. He begged for
> >books
> > >that weren't funny so I got him Testament Of Youth by Vera Brittain,
> >which
> > >is the saddest book I know.
> > >But it was no good. He told me that weeping was as painful as laughing.
> > >
> > >cheers - jen
> >
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