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51st out of 94 books
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34 voters
Adjunct: An Undigest
by
Peter Manson
Avant garde collection of observances and commentary on artists, musicians and their ilk interspersed with diary entries.
87 pages
Published
2004
by Edinburgh Review
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One of the great things about Adjunct is that there is this kind of faint underlying presence, a bit like distant music or some neighbours arguing behind a wall, and sometimes when you're straining after it you discover you have these weird aptitudes you didn't know about and have difficulty naming.
Walking around after having read Adjunct for a bit can feel like walking around after having spent too long in a gallery. You keep spotting things and hearing things as though they were sentences in...more
Walking around after having read Adjunct for a bit can feel like walking around after having spent too long in a gallery. You keep spotting things and hearing things as though they were sentences in...more
This book is nearly free thought poetry--a run on series of ideas from email spam, TV news reports, and overheard conversations. Although intriguing, it gets a little repetitive (which may be the point) and while often humorous, it is equally often tedious.
A bizarre concept that kept me interested to start with and which I then struggled to read. This disjointed autobiography was so scattered I didn't feel i knew enough about the subject at the end. 10 out of 10 for originality but i couldn't quite see the point.
Feb 04, 2012
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I hated this book. It is a jumble of unconnected sentences. The back cover said it was "a compost of found and appropriated language stirred by a random number table." So it is a bit of nonsense. Any one can enter a bunch of unconnected sentences or thoughts and have a computer program mix it. This is not a novel or a book. I cannot believe this is on the 1001 books to read before you die list.
5. Adjunct: An Undigest, Peter Manson
While some may love this type of poetry. I could not stand any of it. It is bits and pieces of verbiage thrown together to make an unintelligible, nonsequential babbling of thought. If you are concrete-sequential like me, skip it. While the author is taking segments of conversations and news around him to create these poems, it makes absolutely no sense to the reader. I suppose someone more intellectual than I will find some redeeming value, but I am only glad to have completed this book and to...more
Strange entry for the 1001 list, there's no real story and other than a list of people who've died it's difficult to see where the author is going. Manson makes observations, diary extracts and a list of the dead stretch to about 95 pages.
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Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. Between 1994 and 1997, he co-edited (with Robin Purves) eight issues of the experimental/modernist poetry journal Object Permanence. In 2001, the imprint was revived as an occasional publisher of pamphlets of innovative poetry, and has so far published work by the poets J. H. Prynne, Keston Sutherland, Fiona Templeton and Andrea Brady. He w...more
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