Help? on literary trends

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

On a fact-findinng mission...

Also, if there's some sort of protocol here about asking questions, please let me know.

A bit of an odd question, but here goes:

I need to find out (1) what literary writing styles were trendy in late 70s UK; and (2) what types of books the lads were reading during the series. I know a few have been mentioned, but am not sure of what beyond Ivan Denisovich.

"Literary writing styles" could be stream of consciousness, post-post modernism, deconstructism, something else: it just has to be *trendy,* what a writer looking for publicity / audience over quality might have been aiming for. I'd expect it to be dead by now. :D

These two things - (1) vs (2) - should be mutually exclusive.

Didn't find anything on little_details, but will check again.

Thanks ~ :D

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[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a post somewhere about books in canon, but according to my notes, we see Doyle read The Sands of Torremolinos by Juan Goytisolo, Ten Years After Ivan Denisovich by Zhores Medvedev and an unidentifiable Penguin classic, as well as Michael Herr's Dispatches, which callistosh65 mentioned. Oh, and Doyle says he's read Timothy Leary's The Game of Life. :-)

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Doyle's pretty well read, when you think about it... or at least he's got a pretty wide-ranging variety of subjects that he likes to coevr.

I've gotten quite a lot of really good possibilities with ths - and I might try to read a couple I haven't gotten to yet.

Thanks a lot!