A Gate at The Stairs...ahundredtimes, where are you??

[MayorNaze]

i have had to get out of bed and go and find the laptop as i have just finished this book. i am also now disturbed...

but i think it was very good.

i really wasn't sure where it was going for a while, possibly some kind of eugenics kind of theme...but obv not. found the susan and john revelation hugely traumatic actually.

dammit someone come and talk to me - am all by myself as dh is away!!!

i found Sarah very real which was probably the most scary part.

what was the thing with the poison paste about? not sure i got that...

is that you susan? no snogging on my thread pls.

tee hee
i am using her facilities.

you're borrowing her loo??

well, if you've both finished giggling in the cubicle and have no loo paper trailing from your shoe then back to business please...

right am HALF WAY THROUGH
omg " bears stink" that line made me larf
and the bit about spring beoing like a pair of lunatic pyjamas
the narrator is a bit holden caulfield isnt she?

YES - that is who she reminds me of. well done susan.

are you liking it though?

yy a lot a lot
is fave book
descriptions are fantastic
she writes as a young person so well

yes - agree about young person - some books are v stilted or trying too hard, this flows v naturally.

not read for a while but re holden - i always found the bell jar to be catcher in the rye but with a girl - still good though.

did you get gate at stairs from library? perhaps you had it after me...i sneezed around p76...

dont knwo of what you talk (?yet?)

Barging in on discussion here.
Just finished it. Wasn't sure for a long time whether I was 'getting it'.

But you guys are right, I think it's about the danger. It was all about danger. How everything is dangerous. So I'm guessing that's her take on the post 9/11 thing and it's affect on the American psyche

I wish I'd liked it more.
I think that unreliable narrator thing can get a bit tiresome if you haven't got anyone else balancing out the character for you.
Thought the whole brother dying was very moving until she climbed in the coffin and NO ONE NOTICED???

Still not sure about it.

grr am HALFWAY THROUGH

will have to hide thread

i quite like unreliable narrator aspect...leaves more open to individual interpretation...

i have neve rhead of the term before

have you not? ooh get thee to a book group or gcse english lit asap...

is someone who is a bit cuckoo possibly, so you're never quite sure if things happen as they actually happen, or whether it is just the perception of the narrator.

gosh i'm clever

i did O level! ha
was crap techer though

ah def crap if never heard of literary terms like wot i know...

what r you reading next? have just finished a gathering light by jennifer connolly (i think). was ok. bit overrated IMO.

oh somethign from waterstones
blue cover
thriller
brb

black water rising

I read teh frog hospital one. It was alright as I remember but I was epxecting somehting more pow-ey (NB literary term).

i reserve loads of crap online in library and then forget about it until it comes in. is like a little xmas every time

do i want to read more lorrie moore then?

I read Gate at Stairs. Thought was v gd but with reservations. Could have done with more severe editing. Sped read all the bit where she was a bird, ffs. V similar to frog hospital in style.

Am reading "Lacuna" v v v gd indeed.

come on susan read faster...

has anyone read the little stranger? i didn't understand the end...

oi fish

come and chat books

I've just finished A Gate at the Stairs and am still all caught up in it. I found the Gabriel storyline really distressing. I actually put my hands up to my face reading it and read through my open fingers, unable to look away. I had nearly finished reading it last night and all my dreams were threads from the book. Very strange!