> > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it > > the other night. Seem like a very good book. > Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
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> * Mark Brader > > > > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it > > > > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
> > > Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
> > Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't > > take it seriously.
> Exactly. I read it before it became the hype it is now, and it never > occured to me that it was even close to something from the reality.
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place > in less than 24 hours?
Nicholson Baker's 'The Mezzanine' takes place during about 5 minutes IIRC (I haven't read it, but it's supposed to be very good). There's also Stanislav Lem's 'One Perfect Minute' and Geoff Ryman's '253', although neither of these are 'stories' in a conventional sense. 253 is an 'instantaneous' novel - it takes place in a frozen moment in time, so you can't get a smaller space of time than that... (253 is very cool and readable online at http://www.ryman-novel.com/)
>>>>>Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started
> reading it
>>>>>the other night. Seem like a very good book.
>>>>Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
>>>Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't >>>take it seriously.
>>Exactly. I read it before it became the hype it is now, and it never >>occured to me that it was even close to something from the reality.
>>ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place >>in less than 24 hours?
> Nicholson Baker's 'The Mezzanine' takes place during about 5 minutes IIRC (I > haven't read it, but it's supposed to be very good). There's also Stanislav > Lem's 'One Perfect Minute' and Geoff Ryman's '253', although neither of > these are 'stories' in a conventional sense. 253 is an 'instantaneous' > novel - it takes place in a frozen moment in time, so you can't get a > smaller space of time than that... > (253 is very cool and readable online at http://www.ryman-novel.com/)
there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that is falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in english. In italian it is "Oggetto Quasi". see you pazqo
> there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that > is falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in > english. In italian it is "Oggetto Quasi". > see you > pazqo
But are these really shot time novels? I mean, do they include a lot of memories from the past?
The Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel wrote "A day in October" which took place in just a few hours, but it did not really, because almost the complete book was about the years leading upt to this day.
-- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jonh...@ifi.uio.no http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92
>>there's also a story by J. Saramago, that tells about a dictator that >>is falling down from the chair... :-) I don't know the title in >>english. In italian it is "Oggetto Quasi". >>see you >>pazqo
> But are these really shot time novels? I mean, do they include a lot > of memories from the past?
> The Norwegian author Sigurd Hoel wrote "A day in October" which took > place in just a few hours, but it did not really, because almost the > complete book was about the years leading upt to this day.
well, the story i suggest is a strange story. the chair is telling us what is happening. so it is a short time novel. how many time do you think it will keep to you falling from the chair? :-) pazqo
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place > in less than 24 hours?
Short story: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, 1891
Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Cheers Michael -- Still an attentive ear he lent Her speech hath caused this pain But could not fathom what she meant Easier I count it to explain She was not deep, nor eloquent. The jargon of the howling main -- from Lewis Carroll: The Three Usenet Trolls
> Jon Haugsand schrieb: > > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place > > in less than 24 hours?
> Short story: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, 1891
> Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Interesting that you say that - it doesn't *feel* like it takes less than 24 hours. Arthur certainly goes to sleep in the middle before they get to Magrathea. But... hmm. I guess so.
Pre-Shakespearean times there was a supposed rule in plays that they should always take place in real time (and indeed in real space), going back to the Greeks. But I don't know how strictly playwrights stuck to it!
> ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place > in less than 24 hours?
I don't recall there being any flashbacks in "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" (by Solzhenitsyn).
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<use...@well-spring.co.uk> wrote: >Nicholson Baker's 'The Mezzanine' takes place during about 5 minutes IIRC (I >haven't read it, but it's supposed to be very good).
One of Baker's better ones, along with "The Fermata". "The DaVinci Code" is Dan Brown's best, "Angels and Demons" is close behind, and the rest of his books are utter crap. Talk about grabbing the zeitgeist!
> "Michael Mendelsohn" <inva...@msgid.michael.mendelsohn.de> wrote in message > > Jon Haugsand schrieb: > > > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place > > > in less than 24 hours?
> > Short story: An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce, 1891
> > Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
> Interesting that you say that - it doesn't *feel* like it takes less than 24 > hours. Arthur certainly goes to sleep in the middle before they get to > Magrathea. But... hmm. I guess so.
It may be a few hours over, it's hard to tell - shipboard time is probably not synchronized to London time. Certainly if you disregrad the first few pages (from 8 am to lunchtime), Arthur's time ought to subjectively come pretty close: at the end, they're running away from lunch with the mice.
To boldly split infinitives.... Michael -- Still an attentive ear he lent Her speech hath caused this pain But could not fathom what she meant Easier I count it to explain She was not deep, nor eloquent. The jargon of the howling main -- from Lewis Carroll: The Three Usenet Trolls
Song Weaver <firew...@juliewaters.com> writes: > Jon Haugsand wrote: > > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place > > in less than 24 hours?
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:37:26 -0000, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote: >> > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it >> > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
>> Drivel, tosh and bunkum, ...
>Drivel, tosh, bunkum, and great fun. Recommended to anyone who won't >take it seriously.
A reviewer in a UK newspaper said something like "Paper-thin characters, ludicrous plot, appaling writing and dammit, you can't stop reading it." My feelings exactly.
Matalog wrote: > Did anyone read "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown? Just started reading it > the other night. Seem like a very good book.
I got it as a Christmas present and read it all the way through to find out what all the fuss was about. I thought it was appalling muck. I'm aware that people have been getting emotional about its content - I'm not one of these people, i.e. I don't dislike it out of any outrage about Jesus and Mary whatshername. I just thought the character development was non-existent, the story was in no way atmospheric, there were stupid cliffhanger moments every two pages that I quickly got tired of. Such utter shit. I wouldn't get another of this guys books in a fit.
Of course I have ("Ulysses" and "Finnigans wake"), but I haven't read them. (They are probably what Mark Twain had in mind when he said, "A classic is book everyone appreciate, but none has read."
However, what puzzles me is how you came around making a comment like that.
-- Jon Haugsand Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo, Norway, mailto:jonh...@ifi.uio.no http://www.ifi.uio.no/~jonhaug/, Phone: +47 22 85 24 92
Jon Haugsand <jonh...@ifi.uio.no> wrote: >* vme...@nospamblueyonder.co.uk >> "Jon Haugsand" wrote
>> > ObPuzzle: Are there other books where the complete story takes place >> > in less than 24 hours?
>> There was a TV series, but I can't remember the name of it.
>24?
...and just how long after you hit 'Send' did you ralise you were being wound up?
BTW '24' Takes place in *exactly* 24 hours so I guess it doesn't count! -- Patrick Hamlyn posting from Perth, Western Australia Windsurfing capital of the Southern Hemisphere Moderator: polyforms group (polyforms-subscr...@egroups.com)
