Talk:Alex Garland

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Re "better description"

Ahem. User:Stumason, I'm not sure how visceral (Having to do with the viscera, which are the soft internal organs of the body, including the lungs, the heart, and the organs of the digestive, excretory, reproductive, and circulatory systems.) is a better description of something which sort of becomes spmething else than VIRTUAL. I think this is somewhat more appropriate. User:Megawattbulbman 15:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

That's the scientific definition. As with a lot of words in the english language, it has taken on a literary meaning too:

1. Instinctual: proceeding from instinct rather than from reasoned thinking

2. Emotional: characterized by or showing basic emotions

Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 15:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm... I'm literature undergrad and I've never seen it used in this context before. Where did you find these definitions? Megawattbulbman 15:28, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Check out [1] or [2]. Visceral is a word often used to describe books like Lord of the Flies and The Beach. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 16:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Stop press, just saw it in a TV guide describing some programme... You're right, it is an appropriate description. Sorry!

I have heard that a theatre company called "We Could Be Kings" have been given the rights to adapt The Coma by Alex Garland into a stage play. It is going to debut for the first time ever at The Pleasance for The Edinburgh Festival this year. Check it out!

[edit] Rewrote first paragraph to remove possible copyright violation

I have rewritten the first paragraph and the start of the second paragraph. The following text appears to have been lifted from http://www.spikemagazine.com/0599alexgarland.php

Alex Garland (born 1970) is a British novelist, the son of the well-known and respected political cartoonist, Nick Garland. With a resolutely middle-class and intellectual background, he attended University College School, Hampstead and later graduated from Manchester University with a degree in History of Art. He was planning on following in his father's footsteps before he realized: "There aren't many openings for a cartoonist." Instead, he turned his attention to fiction, and started writing The Beach when he was just 23, drawing on his many experiences of travelling. He first went to India when he was 17 on a school trip, and he now makes several visits to South East Asia per year.

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Claudine (talk) 00:39, 28 March 2006 (UTC)