Orang Utan
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*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Just bought A Different Drummer, the life of the ballet choreographer Sir Kenneth Macmillan. It's a massive book but he had an incredible life so there's a lot to fit in; I can't wait to get stuck kin to this one.
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2666 - Roberto Bolano
The Wire: Truth Be Told, by Rafael Alvarez, with an intro by David Simon
took delivery of this yesterday and despite my best intentions to continue the book I have only just started, I gave in immediately and started reading this instead
I think I might be delving into another new arrival too this weekend - Larry McMurtry - Dead Man's Walk, which is the prequel to Lonesome Dove
took delivery of this yesterday and despite my best intentions to continue the book I have only just started, I gave in immediately and started reading this instead
I think I might be delving into another new arrival too this weekend - Larry McMurtry - Dead Man's Walk, which is the prequel to Lonesome Dove
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ericjarvis
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Just put down:
Bill Drummond - 45
Just picked up:
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
Bill Drummond - 45
Just picked up:
Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
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Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Have to read this again after Coetzee, and it makes quite a contrast from the Bolano at the same time.
Have to read this again after Coetzee, and it makes quite a contrast from the Bolano at the same time.
Philip Hensher - The Northern Clemency. Very long but very readable family epic about Sheffield from around the early seventies to mid nineties. The period detail about the Seventies in particular is impeccable without being too nostalgic/weren't Spacehoppers brilliant. Interesting chunk about the miners strike/Orgreave as well.
The Octagon
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Just finished Black Man (Richard Morgan) last night, not really sure I've fully digested it all yet though.
Overall, interesting ideas (which seem plausible for the most part) and some semi-intelligent racial / sexual politics thrown in too. Yet again there were some unnecessary / dubious sex scenes, which seem to crop up every single time Morgan writes a book and they just slow the story down IMO.
Not his best but still readable - 6/10
Overall, interesting ideas (which seem plausible for the most part) and some semi-intelligent racial / sexual politics thrown in too. Yet again there were some unnecessary / dubious sex scenes, which seem to crop up every single time Morgan writes a book and they just slow the story down IMO.
Not his best but still readable - 6/10
William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms.
Quite John le Carre-ish in direction this time - a straight up thriller as such (big pharma conpiracy too) , but still the distinctive literary style & hallmarks of Boyd.
He's just such a fucking brilliant story teller - I literally cannot put the fucker down
Quite John le Carre-ish in direction this time - a straight up thriller as such (big pharma conpiracy too) , but still the distinctive literary style & hallmarks of Boyd.
He's just such a fucking brilliant story teller - I literally cannot put the fucker down
Have been reading A case of Conscience by James Blish, about a scientist/catholic who visits an alien planet where they abid by earths ethical rules perfectly without faith and how he deals with it/what follows. Good for the way his faith leads him to such a radically different understanding of events than the atheists.
Apparentley it lead the chruch to disclose its policy on extraterrestrials as well.
8/10
Apparentley it lead the chruch to disclose its policy on extraterrestrials as well.
8/10
live_jayeola
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David Brin "Sundiver" sci-fi
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Still reading the Bolano. It can never be described as fast paced!
ShiftyBagLady
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I'm reading Medicine's Strangest Cases.
I got totally stuck in Sense and Sensibility. I really like that book but for some reason I just couldn't get through it.
I got totally stuck in Sense and Sensibility. I really like that book but for some reason I just couldn't get through it.
krtek a houby
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Live and Let Die. Crikey; it's quite racist 
Sex and Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The Life of Ian Dury by Richard Balls. Excellent biography so far, unpretentiously written, very well researched. Does a very good job of conveying what a complex character Dury was and how his difficult childhood experiences shaped his character.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
charles mackay - extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds - interesting and perpetually relevant - there was no golden age: humanity has always as stupid as it is now.
Dirty Martini
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Finished Lanark, which I loved. Raw, full-blooded and a brilliant amalgam of autobiography and politics written beautifully with great love. A great novel that just works.
I followed that with The Seventh Well by Fred Wander, which is a short novel based on the author's experiences in 20 Nazi camps until liberation at Buchenwald. Quite stunning about the cameraderie of the camps and the attempt to keep some kind of awareness of the outside world alive in the most appalling circumstances. Great, too, on how ordinary German citizens brought themselves to commit their baroque crimes.
Now it's Nazi Germany and the Jews by Saul Friedlander. Cheery stuff.
I followed that with The Seventh Well by Fred Wander, which is a short novel based on the author's experiences in 20 Nazi camps until liberation at Buchenwald. Quite stunning about the cameraderie of the camps and the attempt to keep some kind of awareness of the outside world alive in the most appalling circumstances. Great, too, on how ordinary German citizens brought themselves to commit their baroque crimes.
Now it's Nazi Germany and the Jews by Saul Friedlander. Cheery stuff.
Finished The Wire: Truth be Told last night, and read the first few pages of Larry McMurtry - Dead Man's Walk, which is the prequel to Lonesome Dove.
However, I have just been dipping into something I found completely by accident on Amazon - 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' by Kim Cooper. A tiny little book, detailing the background to the band members, how it all kicked off, and presumably analysing the actual album.
I thought it might be a bit of a hagiography, but it isn't. Chuffed I found it
However, I have just been dipping into something I found completely by accident on Amazon - 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea' by Kim Cooper. A tiny little book, detailing the background to the band members, how it all kicked off, and presumably analysing the actual album.
I thought it might be a bit of a hagiography, but it isn't. Chuffed I found it
Well, it's okay, but I thought there might be a bit more depth to it.
There's an awful lot of 'Episode Guide', which was just rehashing episodes, although they did clear up a few minor points for me, that even after 2 viewings of all seasons I still hadn't actually worked out.
Also a teeny tiny point of interest about Omar's whistle, which I won't spoil for you
The interviews are good though, and the articles by various writers, set/location designers, and actors.
I picked it up for about 7 quid on amazon, but there's no way I'd have paid the full book price of £20, put it that way.
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oh yeah, and The Corner. Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters will be her other one I'm guessing.
You copme across 'Reading "Six Feet Under"'? Very interestng look at that prime bit of telly, proper analysis n stuff.
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