There’s loads of things that I’ve read/seen/eaten/coughed up that I’d like to enjoy again but I’ve completely forgotten the important details about, so it’s almost impossible to find them.
I thought this might be common, and a thread about helping each other rediscover pieces of entertainment from vague descriptions would be handy. No more asking the rude man at the video shop about the movie that looked funny from a poster that was up three months ago, you know, the one with the two guys and one of the guys had a cheesy grin and looked a bit British. It was Tristram Shandy.
For starters, I’ve been trying to find a novel about a man living with his girlfriend and her children who reads about his father’s death in an obituary. He travels with them back to his childhood town to learn more. Details include
-Snowy hometown
-Narrator visits psychiatric hospital (father may have been patient) and is lectured on methods of hanging.
-Unreliable narrator as the father’s obituary was not published in his local paper until after the narrator left for hometown, a detective reveals. The narrator thinks he may have read an out-of-town newspaper. There is a small hint that the main charecter was responsible for his father’s death, but this peters out.
-Narrator gets a job as a school night watchman. He has an wacky colleague who ends up getting a lobotomy.
-SPOLIERS!
I really liked this book when I read it seven years ago and would like to re-read and see if it matches up.
Also, has anyone seen a photograph that was around the net a few years ago of a large group of men, women, and children all wearing WW2-looking gas masks standing in a country road looking at the photographer? It seemed staged, vaguely russian-y.
I have googled like a gentleman, but can’t find anything.
You should demand answers to the things you can’t remember.