Adjunct: An Undigest

[Tera (TheBookishAbyss)]

I sluggishly made it through these 70 pages of poetry. I absolutely loathed the entire book. I recommend skipping it unless, like me, you are trying to get through these 1001 books that I must read. I am upset that I had to spend money to get a copy of this book. I could not find it anywhere!

My review:
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 never glance back.

[Bishop]

I've seen a bit about this, but I haven't been able to track down a copy. Where did you get yours?

[Paul]

There's a large excerpt on Manson's Web site as well. I don't know if that counts as reading the book, but it may help you decide how aggressively you want to look for it.

[Tera (TheBookishAbyss)]

I purchased my copy off a website because I could not find it anywhere in the states. I would suggest looking at Amazon or Ebay. There was nothing when I was trying to locate it, but you may get lucky. I'm not even sure what the website was that I ordered it from, most likely the publisher. It was somewhere in England. Just conduct a web search, that is how I found it. There are also large excerpts of the book on the net.

[Wesley]

For the people looking for this book, Barque Press, who originally published this title, has put it back on the market with a new 2009 edition. http://www.barquepress.com/adjunct.html

[Becky]

Wesley wrote: "For the people looking for this book, Barque Press, who originally published this title, has put it back on the market with a new 2009 edition. http://www.barquepress.com/adjunct.html"

Wesley, you are a legend! Thanks for that. I was seriously considering going to the Edinburgh University library and photocopying the lot, but you've saved me a short afternoon in the library.

[Deanne]

Bought a copy from Barque press, cheaper than the copies I've seen on amazon.

[Arukiyomi]

for this and other hard to find books, I can't recommend highly enough the wiki page that Stephen has put together over at LibraryThing:

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/inde...

[Judith]

Arukiyomi wrote: "for this and other hard to find books, I can't recommend highly enough the wiki page that Stephen has put together over at LibraryThing:

http://www.librarything.com/wiki/inde......"

Thanks so much for this link. It is excellent and represents a good deal of work!

[Alana]

I gave this up after a record one page (after skimming the rest, including the last page, to see if it got better; it doesn't). Short, unrelated sentences, one after the other, in one long, unbroken "paragraph" for 81 pages? Forget it.

[Kirsten]

Is this on the list? I don't remember it.

[Sandi]

Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "Is this on the list? I don't remember it."

I think it was on the original list but removed in 2008.

[Alana]

Sandi wrote: "Kirsten *Dogs Welcome - People Tolerated" wrote: "Is this on the list? I don't remember it."

I think it was on the original list but removed in 2008."

Ah, I may be working from the combined list. It's one I don't mind skipping, though. At least I tried it.