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13 oeuvres 416 utilisateurs 20 critiques 1 Favoris

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Œuvres de David Keenan

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Date de naissance
1971
Sexe
male
Nationalité
Scotland
Pays (pour la carte)
Scotland
Lieux de résidence
Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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A huge book in both scope and size - a monument itself. Monument Maker is basically a volume of semi-connected stories or even novels, some of which stand alone. It’s a potent mix of spiritualism, mysticism, science fiction, eroticism, art, and folly that crosses continents and centuries.

David Keenan covers a lot of ground here. “I had glimpsed what the dead know, or what many of them know, that there are endless lives and endless loves, and that I wanted a part of all of them.” Keenan appears to want to capture that vastness, those many lives, in one book. This is a book that could use a second reading, and maybe a third, to grasp most of what it has to offer.

With an appendix both ridiculous and useful.
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Signalé
Hagelstein | Jan 7, 2024 |
David Keenan presents here a novel written by the late (suicide) David W. Keenan, a "writer, teacher and local historian" in St. Andrews, Scotland. There's also commentary by former students salted throughout the novel.

A young Russian woman and her father, a musician with a fondness for Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake are friends with a "famouser musician" with whom she has an affair and becomes pregnant. She and her father take a vacation to Scotland where she has an affair with a "famous golfer" and engages in various sexual behaviors to please him.

There's a supernatural element to the story and it has one of the best lines in recent memory: "If I hadn't had my trigger finger in some girl's butthole earlier I might have scored a direct hit and drilled a hole through my own brain." David Keenan is able to take what could be a conventional story and wrestle it into shape as something else entirely.
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½
 
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Hagelstein | Nov 9, 2022 |
A series of reminisces and interviews about Memorial Device, a band whose live shows could sound “like an autistic Joy Division,” and the scene they were part of in the 1980s in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. “The thing about Memorial Device was that you always had the feeling that it was their last gig ever, like they could fall apart at any moment.”

It was the type of atmosphere in which a group of boys drop acid and take turns masturbating in a bathroom. “After that it was inevitable we would form a band.”

The sweet and sad moments of the life of teenagers, and some adults, everywhere are captured in the book. “I fell in love with so many girls; it hurt so much.” “She seemed nervous and delicate but also poetic and a little unhinged. In other words she was ticking all the right boxes.”

What the book describes is people attempting to escape what they deem as ordinary and to define themselves as different through music and art in the process. Except for those who were truly mad. They didn’t care. This book aches with the love of music, love of fandom, and the promise of youth. Complete with a Memorial Device discography, appendices, and an extremely thorough, and thoroughly pointless, index.
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½
 
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Hagelstein | 14 autres critiques | Apr 21, 2022 |
“In Ireland history isn’t written. It’s remembered,” says Sammy from Belfast. As he moves from a career of minor crime to IRA member and major crime in the 1970s he tells what he remembers. The struggle was “Making superheroes of criminals. Making gods of murderers. Making legends of men.”

This is a personable book. Sammy and his friends are personable guys. Heinous crimes against people are leavened with black humor. As the atrocities pile up Sammy copes by delving into periods of comic book fantasy. His friends die. His mother dies – his own fault, and he is questioning it all. And trying to forget.… (plus d'informations)
½
 
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Hagelstein | 1 autre critique | May 15, 2021 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
13
Membres
416
Popularité
#58,580
Évaluation
4.0
Critiques
20
ISBN
32
Langues
3
Favoris
1

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