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James Lasdun

Författare till The Horned Man

29+ verk 1,405 medlemmar 54 recensioner 1 favoritmärkta

Om författaren

James Lasdun lives near Woodstock, New York.

Inkluderar namnet: James Lasdun

Verk av James Lasdun

The Horned Man (2002) 307 exemplar
The Fall Guy (2016) 236 exemplar
Seven Lies (2005) 168 exemplar
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Redaktör — 153 exemplar
It's Beginning to Hurt: Stories (2009) 102 exemplar
Afternoon of a Faun (2019) 46 exemplar
Besieged (1999) 25 exemplar
Landscape with Chainsaw: Poems (2001) 21 exemplar
Three Evenings: Stories (1992) 14 exemplar
Victory (2019) 13 exemplar
A Jump Start (1987) 9 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Best American Short Stories 2010 (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 409 exemplar
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 280 exemplar
Granta 89: The Factory (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 175 exemplar
Granta 91: Wish You Were Here (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 134 exemplar
Granta 95: Loved Ones (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 119 exemplar
Granta 120: Medicine (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 82 exemplar
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 54 exemplar
Stories To Get You Through The Night (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The National Short Story Prize 2006 (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
TLS Short Stories (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar

Taggad

Allmänna fakta

Födelsedag
1958
Kön
male
Nationalitet
UK
Relationer
Lasdun, Denys (father)

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This book had such a great premise, and I was excited to dive into another gripping thriller. Unfortunately, it didn’t deliver what I was hoping for at all! The characters were thoroughly unlikeable without any redeeming quality - especially Matthew, whose point of view we were in the entire time. The plot was excruciatingly slow, partly due to the fact that the writing was so overworked and pretentious. The novel read like it was written by an English professor trying too hard to be literary. There were entire sections that rehashed what had happened, or leisurely explored Matthew’s thoughts and obsessions, which quickly grew tedious. Then the author threw in in some unnecessary and tiresome talk about banking and the Occupy movement, which made me wonder whether his editors forced him to pad his word count. I was completely unsatisfied with this book.… (mer)
 
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Elizabeth_Cooper | 13 andra recensioner | Oct 27, 2023 |
I'll be honest, I read this almost purely on the basis of Lasdun's paranoia, reported in his memoir On Being Stalked, that its subject matter would lend credence to his stalker's suggestions that he was sexually inappropriate to her (though they both agree that, actually, he was not). The central character does initially seem to be the quintessential author-insert character -- a mediocre would-be writer, with the author's own nationality, who is improbably lusted over by various female characters despite his apparent lack of interesting or attractive features.

But the plot pretty quickly takes a turn for the bizarre, and then another turn for the even-more-bizarre. Lasdun does a great job of not only of crafting a compelling thriller but also, I think, of skewering the milquetoast author-insert trope, which he leverages well to his advantage. It's a very paranoid read -- also true, of course, of Lasdun's memoir -- but also very intelligent. Would recommend to anyone looking for a short Twilight Zone-y thriller.
… (mer)
 
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maddietherobot | 7 andra recensioner | Oct 21, 2023 |
I did not like this at all. It was reminiscent of something I've already read, but I suspect that I would forgive or enjoy that if this were a story I liked. But though it seems reasonably well written, allusive, and snappy, that didn't stop it from being a deeply unlikable journey, and not at all redemptive. I don't want to be in this head without a point.
 
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Kiramke | 7 andra recensioner | Jun 27, 2023 |
This book took me waaaaay to long to read. It was good but I kept finding other books to take it's place--not a good sign. I think this would be a good book for a trip because you can get back into it very easily. Outcome is predictable, in my opinion.
 
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Sunandsand | 13 andra recensioner | Apr 30, 2022 |

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Statistik

Verk
29
Även av
11
Medlemmar
1,405
Popularitet
#18,285
Betyg
½ 3.5
Recensioner
54
ISBN
99
Språk
8
Favoritmärkt
1

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