Jake's Thing
by Kingsley Amis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140050965 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140050965 Global Overview for this book
Registered by pippis of Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on 3/11/2012
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by pippis from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Sunday, March 11, 2012
How to survive when you're 59 and lost your libido? Oh, dear, fancy a cuppa with that?
Journal Entry 2 by pippis at Kahvila Siilinkari in Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Monday, March 26, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (3/26/2012 UTC) at Kahvila Siilinkari in Tampere, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland
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Hopefully Jake knows how to behave in public... Meet him at Siilinkari!
Jake followed me home from the Tampere meetup at Siilinkari. Had to choose between the two Amises available... this ought to be a blast!
No, I did not enjoy this quite as much as I had hoped. I wonder what it was about the seventies... A great many books set and written in that decade now seem to incorporate a very specific dullness despite their surface ornamentation of introverted verbosity and ubiquitous themes of sexual liberation. In retrospect, I guess the paralysis of Bourgeois Puritan Conventionality (as one of the chapters is aptly titled) was never far away, no matter how obstinately people strived at or experimented with so-called liberation (here: women's lib, swinging, experimental sex therapy sessions...).The dullness, sadness that now remains in print must've been an intentional effect on the part of the writer, formerly an Angry Young Man: an emblem of an era of sorts. Suddenly Jake's Thing isn't very satirical any more.
Journal Entry 5 by CatharinaL at Pirkkala, Pirkanmaa / Birkaland Finland on Wednesday, April 18, 2012
I'm taking Jake with me to Friday's meetup at Main Library Metso.
Seems funny. Thank you!
Journal Entry 7 by sumako at Satama in Lappeenranta, Etelä-Karjala / Södra Karelen Finland on Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Released 8 yrs ago (9/1/2015 UTC) at Satama in Lappeenranta, Etelä-Karjala / Södra Karelen Finland
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