Published on 12, July, 2020
What are you reading at the moment?
Any recommendations?
I mainly read crime novels but have run out of new ones so am re-reading Graham Greene.
I am on Brighton Rock at the moment.
On a kindle due to eyesight issues.
70% through Brighton Rock and I seem to have just realised (3rd reading) that it's relentlessly depressing
I listened to that on audiobook a few years back and you’re not wrong! It’s compellingly grim and I definitely endured it more than enjoyed it. But it was still a worthwhile ‘read’.
Relieved to hear you say that! Brighton Rock was one of my O level English texts.....I found it threatening, upsetting and overwhelmingly depressing. Grim period of history. Grim location (at that point in history) and the darkest sorts of human motivations and behaviours spelt out at every corner. Brighton Rock is a literary masterpiece in the same way that a lobotomy is a marvel of modern medicine - in my opinion.
If you want a good book, I recommend The English Patient. A personal fav. It isn't fluffy bunnies and beautiful rainbows, but it is underpinned by a stream of unrelenting love despite a hugely challenging worldscape - again, in my opinion.
Happy reading y'all.
In that case, avoid Simenon's Dirty Snow; maybe, Raffles?