Will Self: Why Read in a Digital Age?

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@shame69 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading this roaringly fine jabberthon! "Re-writing on screen is like painting on water". Will Self is a rare treasure.

@hannahhume8164 6 ай бұрын

very rare. Who else strikes you as a treasure in this sense?

@shame69 6 ай бұрын

@@hannahhume8164 Ooh, that's put me on the spot. Off the top of my head - Miranda July, John Kennedy Toole, Francis Wheen (OK, granted, he's a journalist but 'Strange Days Indeed' and 'How Mumbo-Jumbo...' are written like thrillers), the early, funny, waspish Evelyn Waugh novels, Lewis Carroll. Who floats your boat?

@sspbrazil 4 ай бұрын

There are two people I could endlessly listen to talk about things, one is Werner Herzog and the other is Will Self.

@estebancomulet 8 ай бұрын

I love Will but honestly where the hell is he??? Hasn't appeared on telly in years. Didn't even know he had a new book out. He was the sole reason I would occasionally watch Question Time.

@Painterly-fv1jp 8 ай бұрын

Despite his occasionally irritating verbiage Will's comments on contemporary fiction are spot on. Especially the fact that the only fiction that seems popular in the modern era is often popular because of political reasons that are often exterior to the work itself. I have hope that people will still be drawn to older forms of media, and perhaps more so than now, as everything internet based becomes more and more hyper-regulated and homogeneous in its own way. Distinctly human and less mediated art will become a slightly rarer thing, and hopefully more valuable in some quarters.

@MikeFuller-ok6ok 6 ай бұрын

Psychologically, buying a book from a shop, physically holding a book, and even the book's smell, is a more fulfilling experience than downloading from a computer or mobile phone, and just staring at a screen. The same applies to buying records, tapes and CDs from shops than downloading and listening on a mobile phone or computer.

@paulkossak7761 6 ай бұрын

Been a fan since reading " My idea of fun"

@alannolan3514 7 ай бұрын

'your goalie works in greggs' greatest chant ever : Celtic v Berwick R !

@patrickwhite8144 6 ай бұрын

(43:25) 20 books in a week at Oxford University? From cover to cover? Surely not? That's 2.8 books per day! Is there anyone here that can read three novels in a day? I could possibly read one medium sized novel in a day if that was all I did.

@giantpurplebrain 3 ай бұрын

I've heard similar stories about required reading for Oxbridge - I don't understand how it's possible. Especially as the books are presumably more complex than the average paperback. I'm a slow reader, affected by 21st century attention span, and I would struggle to get through a book a week. Plus those students fit in rowing and footlight reviews - I know I could never cut it.

@geoffreynhill2833 5 ай бұрын

I stil yooz dicshunriz to chek spellins 🤔(Author "Green Fire: Tommy & Ruthie's Blues", distributor IngramSpark, bookshops UK/US) 🌈🦉

@geoffreynhill2833 5 ай бұрын

PS: I've stopped wandering around now that people on their cellphones keep bumping into me.

@dirtycelinefrenchman 7 ай бұрын

I’m 39 and just now discovering the meaning of “sensual immersion in landscape” and so only just realizing retrospectively what I’ve missed out on - what was being lost - as I giddily and unquestioningly rode the amusement park spectacle of media and techno-advancement over my lifetime.

@prasantbanerjee8199 7 ай бұрын

"Evincing evidence?"

@robrhyner2949 5 ай бұрын

Wincing, but easy to say and then wince.

@NEONMOTORFAIRY Ай бұрын

Coca-Cola from a glass bottle is delicious.

@stephensharp3033 10 ай бұрын

Will Self uses too many words. Why read him?

@johnmulligan455 9 ай бұрын

No, he uses lots of long words that seem out of place. The best writers don't do this. It's pretentious nonsense @user-ji1tu3qi5j

@johnmulligan455 9 ай бұрын

@user-ji1tu3qi5j words cannot hurt me. I've read more books than insults you've dished out.

@DCI-Frank-Burnside 9 ай бұрын

His novels can be interminable, but I enjoy reading his short stories. He's rather like a cerebral Clive Barker in his depiction of urban decay.

@eddyk2016 9 ай бұрын

Yeah I bought some of his books, I found them to be unreadable. I didn’t have a clue what he was trying to say. I’ll stick to Mr Waugh and Kingsley Amiss ect

@johnmulligan455 9 ай бұрын

He wants to be Sebald. @@eddyk2016

@dirtycelinefrenchman 7 ай бұрын

That was quite a little Sebald riff at the end