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does anybody else find that whilst reading "Stranger on a train" the back of your mind is occupied with "What would I say if I met Jenny Diski?", because you'd want her to know you liked her books etc, but having read said same books you'd obviously be aware of how much she really doesn't want to talk to you....

>>By sergi (Sunday, 26 Jan 2003 10:31)

Hi, I'm writing a dissertation on Jenny Diski, but first I have to analize her books.
Someone can help me?

>>By stellina (Sunday, 26 Jan 2003 10:31)

I need some information about the biography of the author such as childhood.
I also need information about the features she talk about in her books

>>By stellina (Sunday, 26 Jan 2003 10:31)

Having read the blood and coffee stained librarian copy of ‘Happily Ever After’, I sauntered my way back, filled with a gnawing abhorrence towards borrowing – Filthy as it was, I had to deliver up my beloved, but unfortunately borrowed novel.

When I later desperately haunted the Internet in a desolate quest to buy your book, some ill-mannered html-ed creature wrote that the novel is out of print, limited availability. Alas, at that very moment another toe-itching disillusion manifested in staccato head aching, resulting - eventually - in a state of imaginary limpness, not to say: semi-comatose unconsciousness.

Dear Ms Diski… must I endure this merciless odyssey, so that, one day - after transforming Darwin’s ‘struggle for life’ into a way of taking hold of a novel - I vaingloriously shout: “I am the owner of ‘Happily Ever After’”
or is it possible to keep my brain healthy and buy / get your book in another, less fatiguing – more amiable way?

In admiration I sincerely thank you for any kind of information regarding this painstaking insecurity.

P.S. My humble apologies for the previous language. I was unable to use Dutch, my untrammelled, maternal language.

Greetings

>>By Tom (Monday, 10 Feb 2003 21:33)

It sounds like you need a physician not a book. Still, the excellent abebooks.com has a bunch of out of print books by me. I hope things improve for you.
Best
Jenny Diski

>>By Jenny Diski (Wednesday, 19 Feb 2003 15:41)

OK, I surfed in here by chance, and it appears to be a) a place where people post opinions and the author herself reads them and sometimes replies, and b) virtually deserted.
This is really weird. I mean, what happened to the alienation of modern life? The dichotomy between hordes of trampling, inconsiderate literary consumers and isolated creator?
Oh well, time for my two pence. The criminally buried “Nothing Natural” contains the most devastatingly accurate description of depression ever penned. It made me laugh and cry with recognition. There are plenty of memoirs about depression out there, detailing graphically how horrible it is, but this novel is the only book I know that captures the blended resignation, panic, absurdity and weariness of the experienced sufferer realising the advent of Unmistakably It for the nth bloody time. May the new edition carry “Nothing Natural” to the prominence it deserves. Thank You Very Much, Jenny Diski.

>>By Anna (Saturday, 1 Mar 2003 02:41)

Anna, better do not believe if someone posts under the name of Jenny Diski here. Everyone can choose the name he wants, so chances are high someone posts as Diski for fun.

>>By Cole (Saturday, 1 Mar 2003 09:34)

There is of course a very high chance you are right Cole, hence my surprise. However, if that's a troll posting as Jenny Diski, it's a very unimaginative and convincing troll, and I have to salute its abilities.

>>By Anna (Saturday, 1 Mar 2003 17:51)

Your are so right, Anna, to say nothing of Cole. But what if it was me? A trollful isolated creator. Absurb thought.

>>By Jenny Diski (Wednesday, 5 Mar 2003 17:42)

did anyone here read "only human" do you think it can be classified as a postmodern novel which is rewriting the Bible

>>By papatya (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 14:23)

Sergi, yes I thought that myself while I was reading Stranger on a train. But I think I was more occupied with how some of the characters would feel if they chanced upon the book and recognised themselves in one of Jenny's harsh and unblinking portraits. It got me thinking that one may have unknowingly already bumped into her at a bus stop somehwere and talked non-stop drivel. A highly unflattering picture may be awaiting publication in the next memoir or novel...

My fave moment in a JD book is 'Slime Mold" in Like Mother. How I laughed...

>>By BluSkize (Saturday, 12 Mar 2005 16:14)

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