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message 101: by Monica (new)
Jan 13, 2017 08:08AM

Monica (dantemortem) | 8 comments neglectfully browsing, wandered back in today from a site which made me think of you,
Writers no one reads
http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/

some interesting things there, but I can't seem to put my hands on any of it


message 102: by Thomas (new)
Jan 13, 2017 10:00PM

Thomas | 56 comments ive reviewed or read a few buried or thereabouts things and i made a shelf for them which is here https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
some of these don't have threads because they're maybe too recent or are poetry or some other reasons.
here are some of the ones that i actually wrote real reviews for.
buried and good:
The Slipway
The Chambered Nautilus
Woman of the Aeroplanes
Symmes Hole
Anthem of the Decades: A Zulu Epic

buried or barely read and not so good, or maybe better suited to someone else's tastes:
Musica Ficta
The Shadow Of The Land
The Sofa
Onaevia

finally here's a recent book of experimental cyberpunk that might appeal to some here: Dreams of Amputation


message 103: by Nathan "N.R." (new)
Jan 14, 2017 07:28AM

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 986 comments Monica wrote: "neglectfully browsing, wandered back in today from a site which made me think of you,
Writers no one reads
http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/.."

Yep. Wish it'd get updated more frequently...


message 104: by Nathan "N.R." (new)
Jan 14, 2017 07:28AM

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 986 comments Thomas wrote: "ive reviewed or read a few buried or thereabouts things and i made a shelf for them which is here https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...
some of these d..."

Thanks for the update!


message 105: by Jimmy (new)
Jan 18, 2017 11:49PM

Jimmy (jimmylorunning) | 94 comments My review of The Weight of Things by Marianne Fritz.


message 106: by mark (new)
Jan 18, 2017 11:59PM

mark monday (majestic-plural) | 7 comments review for Mary Butts' Armed with Madness:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

review for her Death of Felicity Taverner:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

trigger warning: gifs


message 107: by mark (last edited Jan 19, 2017 11:57AM) (new)
Jan 19, 2017 12:21AM

mark monday (majestic-plural) | 7 comments and while I'm at it,

review for Pierre Klossawski's Roberte Ce Soir & The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Coleman Dowell's Island People:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Michael Blumlein's The Brains of Rats:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Michel Tournier's Gemini:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Mojmir Drvota's Triptych:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Michael Cisco's Secret Hours:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Gilbert Adair's Peter Pan and the Only Children:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Leon Garfield's The Golden Shadow:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Paul Scott's The Corrida at San Feliu:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

K.W. Jeter's Seeklight:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

MacDonald Harris' Mortal Leap (happily unburied by Goodreads reviewers):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Brian McNaughton's The House Across the Way:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Howard Pyle's The Garden Behind the Moon:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Dirck Van Sickle's Montana Gothic:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Algernon Blackwood's The Human Chord:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Colin Wilson's The Glass Cage:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Ernest George Henham's The Feast of Bacchus:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Francis Lathom's Astonishment!!!:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Edgar Jepson's The Garden at 19:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

Barry Malzberg's Beyond Apollo:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

EDIT: just had to add a few more. I'm bookmarking this post as a reference for myself, so I can know where all of my UNburied REviews are.

Terry Andrews' The Story of Harold:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Margaret Diehl's Men:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Cris Mazza's Animal Acts:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Colin MacInnes' June in Her Spring:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 108: by Nathan "N.R." (new)
Jan 19, 2017 03:50AM

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 986 comments mark wrote: "and while I'm at it,

review for Pierre Klossawski's Roberte Ce Soir & The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Coleman Dowell's Island People:
https..."

Merci! Merci!


message 109: by Nate D (new)
Mar 02, 2017 12:22AM

Nate D (rockhyrax) | 354 comments Monica wrote: "neglectfully browsing, wandered back in today from a site which made me think of you,
Writers no one reads
http://writersnoonereads.tumblr.com/"

Thanks for the reminder to check back in with my probably all-time-favorite blog! I see they've actually updated in the first time in a year, and with a new Gerard Reve translation no less. Yes!


message 110: by Thomas (new)
Dec 17, 2017 03:18AM

Thomas | 56 comments haven't been reading much buried stuff recently(who has?) but here's a few things that are either buried or not technically buried but probably of interest anyway.

This Earth, My Brother
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Travels in Arabia Deserta, Volume 1
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Iron Flood
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Adventures of Vela
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 111: by Nathan "N.R." (new)
Dec 17, 2017 06:50AM

Nathan "N.R." Gaddis (nathannrgaddis) | 986 comments Thomas wrote: "haven't been reading much buried stuff recently(who has?) but here's a few things that are either buried or not technically buried but probably of interest anyway.

This Earth, My Brother"

I can definitely provide a resonding "Second" to this first title!


message 112: by Thomas (new)
Dec 17, 2017 01:53PM

Thomas | 56 comments It's an interesting one for sure, I can't think of another African novel that's quoted Kierkegaard at me..


message 113: by Nate D (last edited Feb 28, 2018 05:16AM) (new)
Feb 28, 2018 05:15AM

Nate D (rockhyrax) | 354 comments Since last episode (unwilling to let this place languish too much)

Buried essentials (lots of BBC classics here of course):
Bilge Karasu's Night (and to a lesser but still notable extent A Long Day's Evening)
Michael Westlake's Imaginary Women (thanks Verbivoraceous!)
Nawal El-Saadawi's Searching
Mojmir Drvota's Solitaire
Ithell Colquhoun's finally-reissued The Living Stones: Cornwall
Raymond Federman's To Whom it May Concern andDouble or Nothing
Robert M Coates' The Eater of Darkness (less so The Hour After Westerly)

Other notables:
Gisele Prassino's The Traveler (only one review or rating...)
Pierre Reverdy's Haunted House
Eric Basso's The Golem Triptych
Christine Brooke-Rose's Stories, Theories and Things

Not quite buried but great (ie 30 to 100 ratings, or a little too new):
Old Rendering Plant
The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments (Ann Quin's long-lost unfinished novel in print at last)
Killing Auntie
The King in the Golden Mask and Other Stories (it seems astonishing that Schwobb could continue to be buried, yet he nearly is)
The Bottom of the Jar
Nevermore (somehow so few people make it as far as Marie Redonnet's best novel)
The Stupefaction: stories and a novella
98.6
The Cathedral of Mist (Wakefield continues its essential works)
Penthouse F (Green Integer)

Buried but irritating:
Signor Dido: Stories


message 114: by Thomas (new)
May 27, 2018 04:28AM

Thomas | 56 comments Buried stuff:
Babel
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Season, It Was Winter: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Talking Room
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Bound to Violence(recommended highly to anyone interested in African literature)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I don't think William Goyen's numbers are low enough to really qualify as buried but The House of Breath has really good high modernist prose in the vein of all your favourite writers https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I also have to recommend Fire in the Unnameable Country to anyone who likes big ambitious books with digressive storytelling even though it's a debut novel from 2014 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 116: by Nate D (new)
Apr 23, 2019 12:32PM

Nate D (rockhyrax) | 354 comments Annual update. Hi, hi.

Lost essentials:
-Patricia Eakins' The Hungry Girls and Other Stories (!!)
-Fanny Howe's Holy Smoke (Fiction Collective)
-Wendy Walker's The Sea-Rabbit; Or, the Artist of Life

Buried gems:
-Kenward Elmslie's The Orchid Stories
-Reinhard Lettau's Obstacles
-Carol Emshwiller's Joy In Our Cause: Short Stories and Verging on the Pertinent
-Fanny Howe's Forty Whacks
-Ithel Colquhoun's The Crying of the Wind: Ireland (surrealist travel guide)
-Paul Scheerbart's The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets: Four Fairy Tales of Home and One Astral Pantomime (Wakefield)
-Victor Segelen's Journey to the Land of the Real (new Atlas translation)

Honorable mentions (too new or too read):
-Tom LaFarge's Zuntig (Previously unreviewed, really fantastic!)
-Bilge Karasu's The Garden of the Departed Cats (few non-Turkish readers, totally great follow-up to Night)
-Danielle Collobert's Murder
-Marcel Béalu's The Experience of the Night (finally!)
-Brigid Brophy's In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel

In need of better unearthing (buried, but not a favorite):
-Emma Tennant's Hotel de Dream and Alice Fell
-Bertene Juminer's Bozambo's Revenge
-Miguel Delibes' The Hedge
-Robert Desnos' The Punishments of Hell


message 117: by George (last edited Oct 04, 2019 04:30PM) (new)
Oct 04, 2019 04:30PM

George (georgesaliswriter) | 25 comments I did not find a listing for Wendy Walker, but if anyone is interested I reviewed her first story collection here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 118: by Nate D (last edited Nov 26, 2019 10:50PM) (new)
Nov 26, 2019 10:47PM

Nate D (rockhyrax) | 354 comments In fact, Wendy is a contributor to this group. If she doesn't have her own author thread it's only because she's remains a current, active author.


message 119: by George (new)
Nov 26, 2019 11:42PM

George (georgesaliswriter) | 25 comments Nate D wrote: "In fact, Wendy is a contributor to this group. If she doesn't have her own author thread it's only because she's remains a current, active author."

Yes, I did see that, although she hasn't been active in Goodreads for quite some time it seems. I even sent her a message a while ago and never heard back too.

Maybe after I read her novel I'll email her or something in an attempt to interview her. That could be fun.


message 120: by mark (new)
Nov 27, 2019 05:11PM

mark monday (majestic-plural) | 7 comments George wrote: "Yes, I did see that, although she hasn't been active in Goodreads for quite some time it seems. I even sent her a message a while ago and never heard back too...."

Same here! alas


message 122: by George (new)
Dec 08, 2019 07:43PM

George (georgesaliswriter) | 25 comments Thomas wrote: "i haven't posted in here in a while, here are some buried books for you to read about..
Milkbottle H https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
[book:Data Tutashkhia: A novel|..."

I'll be checking these out now. Thank you so much.

If anyone knows how I can get my hands on a copy of Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters, please let me know. It seems that the author self-published it and no copies are anywhere online as far as I can see.


message 123: by Thomas (new)
Dec 09, 2019 12:44AM

Thomas | 56 comments i got mine second hand from some site or other but you can order new copies from the african books collective here: http://www.africanbookscollective.com...
his first two novels are fairly easy to find. his third novel is out of print and only sells for extremely silly prices where it comes up at all.


message 124: by Jimmy (new)
Jan 22, 2020 10:23AM

Jimmy (jimmylorunning) | 94 comments Freshly Unburied, get it while it's cold and dead: Sister X & The Victims of Foul Play (a review).


message 125: by George (new)
Apr 11, 2020 01:23PM

George (georgesaliswriter) | 25 comments Dear friends,

I just posted my review of the buried and wrongly neglected novel The Secret Service by Wendy Walker.

I hope you enjoy: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


message 127: by George (new)
Mar 29, 2021 09:48AM

George (georgesaliswriter) | 25 comments MJ wrote: "Some recent buried reads:
Jara Ribnikar - I & You & She
G.F Gravenson - The Sweetmeat Saga
Sara - Where Mist Clothes Dream and Song Runs Naked
Anthony Storey - Graceless Go I
Henrik Tjele - Two an..."

Nice! Keep up the great work, my friend!


message 128: by MJ (new)
Mar 30, 2021 01:12AM

MJ Nicholls (mjnicholls) | 213 comments George wrote: "Nice! Keep up the great work, my friend!"

You too, sir! And an especial thank you for helping bring more Theroux into the world.

(For those who don't know, Tough Poets Press will be publishing the first vol. of Theroux's stories soon).


message 130: by George (new)
Aug 19, 2021 01:59PM

George (georgesaliswriter) | 25 comments MJ wrote: "Some more recent BURIED reads:
David (Sunset) Carson - Lament
David Kaye - The Demise of a Poet
Nicholas Delbanco - Grasse 3/23/66
D. Keith Mano - The Proselytizer
Zulfikar Ghose - The Inc..."

bravissimo!


message 132: by Jimmy (new)
Sep 26, 2022 01:22PM

Jimmy (jimmylorunning) | 94 comments My review of Christoph Meckel's The Figure on the Boundary Line is up here.


message 133: by MJ (new)
Oct 07, 2022 02:02AM

MJ Nicholls (mjnicholls) | 213 comments Thomas wrote: "turns out i last posted in this thread in 2019, which is way too long ago! here's some buried books

Brilliant unearthings, Thomas! Truly first-rate spadework.


message 135: by Thomas (new)
Oct 07, 2022 03:55AM

Thomas | 56 comments MJ wrote: "Thomas wrote: "turns out i last posted in this thread in 2019, which is way too long ago! here's some buried books

Brilliant unearthings, Thomas! Truly first-rate spadework."

i have read a few more buried things since that one and might as well post them i suppose. i think everyone in this group should check out the rawicz and the backhouse books especially

Information Report - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Décadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Cheops: A Cupboard for the Sun - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Ocean of Mirth: Reading Hāsyārṇava-Prahasanaṁ Of Jagade�śvara Bhaṭṭa� Cha� Rya, a Political Satire for All Times - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Raki - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Blood from the Sky - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


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