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"A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic."
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Riddley Walker
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Welcome to the Riddley Walker UK Book RingThis ring started on 25 April 2005 and finished on 31 January 2006. The book is still available for loan. Please PM me if you are interested. Russell Hoban Russel Hoban was born in Philadelphia in 1925. At 18 Hoban enlisted in the US Army and served in the Philippines and Italy as a radio operator during World War II. He then worked as an illustrator and an advertising copywriter, before writing and illustrating his first children's book, What Does It Do and How Does It Work. In 1969, shortly after writing his first full-length novel, The Mouse and His Child, he moved to London and has remained there ever since. Most of his novels can be categorised as fantasy of the magic realism type, though Riddley Walker is generally considered to be science-fiction. Amazon.co.uk review by Tim Stevens "It is indeed rare for a book to evoke such passion in its readers, and it is those books so utterly idiosyncratic and unique that achieve this feat. Like one of the other reviewers I am now on my fourth copy, having given away all previous copies to friends, sometimes with a little too much fervour perhaps. Riddley Walker has a habit of turning its readers into evangelists for the cause, a statement that would no doubt horrify Russell Hoban, a modest voice throughout. The principal voice is that of Riddley Walker, who guides us selflessly through post-apocalyptic Kent and its strange denizens, inhabitants of a world much like ours. Human foibles abound in a land of strange machinery, arcane ritual, desperate survival and the archaeology of the future. It would almost be best if this book had never been written for, like Homer and Beowulf, this is a verbal narrative, an epic tale of humanity's failure and success, an oral history. This book is designed to be listened to, consumed through aural means, so that your eyes can remain transfixed by the storyteller's lucid dreaming. One can imagine the oral Riddley Walker getting the Seamus Heaney treatment, as it speaks to us from the past and the future with the voice of a poet, whilst its suggestions and its lessons are all too applicable to our present." Riddley Walker Annotations Ring members may want to have a look at the Riddley Walker Annotations web site which contains useful additional information, including a map of Inland and a guide to the place names used in the story. Member/Location Members are as below. The member in red currently has the book. If you wish to join the ring, please PM me and I will add you. Elestr, Nottingham Semioticghost, Ipswich Loopy1, Herne Bay Amanida, Chertsey Wistfuldragon, Streatham Clarrie-rose, Penarth ...then back to me. How it works - If you wish to be added to the list, please PM me with your details. - We will kick off once we have 5 members. - You will be sending the book to the person who appears after you in the list, so you need to PM them to get their address. - It's not a race, but please read and send the book on as speedily as you can, other people are dying to read it too. - Please journal the book once you have received it (so we all know where it currently is) and again when you have read it (so we know what you thought of it). - If you're the last person on the list, then please send it back to me. |
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Released 6 yrs ago (7/28/2005 UTC) at Postal Release in Postal release, Postal Release -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 6 yrs ago (5/23/2006 UTC) at Nags Head pub OBCZ in Walthamstow, Greater London United Kingdom WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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