Pincher Martin

A man is in agony of drowning…When the air had gone with the shriek, water came in to fill its place – burning water, hard in the throat and mouth as stones that hurt. He hutched his body towards the place where air had been but now it was gone and there was nothing but black, choking welter. His bo......more

In my house growing up there were, I am glad to say, many books. Once I hit my early teens and began to seriously get a reading obsession, I would raid my parent's shelves for anything that might catch my eye. I was, I suspect, about 14 when this 1962 Penguin edition fell into my hands. Look at that......more

"Uyku bilinçli bekçinin, tasnif edicinin gevşeyişidir. Şiddetli bir rüzgârda çöp sepetinden havalanmış, ayıklanmamış tüm şeylerin uçarak geldiği zamandır uyku. Uykuda zaman doğrusal çizgiden boşanıyordu, bu yüzden de Alfred ile Sybil ve zırıl zırıl ağlamış suratlı, sümüklü oğlan, kayanın üstünde onu......more

Just finished this novel and it's a very hard one to sum up properly. Unsettling and quite scary in a way, especially for those with a healthy respect for the ocean and it's crushing power and ridiculous depths. Without going into any details of the plot, which may spoil it, the book is only short b......more

Ending the book is akin to being struck by a wave yourself. I can't possibly say anything about it without spoiling it (and what a spoiler it is), so I will avoid discussion of the ending, though it is fundamental to the novel and all the discourse around it. If you do not know how the book ends, I......more