5t3IIa
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Is that the Tony Thompson one? I've got that - £1.75 from a charity shop. I'd just read a Jack Arnott so was mildly interested.
Is it an easy sleazy read? That's what I'd want it to be.
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Is that the Tony Thompson one? I've got that - £1.75 from a charity shop. I'd just read a Jack Arnott so was mildly interested.
Is it an easy sleazy read? That's what I'd want it to be.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Jake Arnott? He went to my old school, so I tried to like and pretend that it was more than competent genre, but not entirely convinced.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
yeah, easy as. I got it for the 'to drunk for sensible book' half hour read before bed. There is a bald scary looking fellow on the front pointing at me.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Lawks, haven't dug that out in an age.............
5t3IIa
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It's an easy read. truecrime is basically a barely-semi-fictionalised account of loads of stuff - east end/Essex hardmen, acid house, M25 parties turning into Ministry of Sound, gansters writing books about being gangsters in Loaded times, Range Rover murders kinda stuff. Seemed a bit lazy tbh. I think The Long Firm is better but I can't remember
5t3IIa
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Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
The Nether World -- George Gissing
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I'm reading Two People by AA Milne. Picked it up out of curiosity, to see how he wrote for adults and it's really charming and absorbing. I like it.
bmd
Island in the stream.
The Kingdom Beyond The Waves by Stephen Hunt.
It starts off with Mandinko the ex-slave escorting his white mistress to a buried tomb in search of treasure, which is a bit "oh oh". But I'm gonna stick with it and see what happens. Mandinko has died saving his white mistress and she has escaped and hopes to avenge his death.
I finished Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. Yet another fantasy about Socialism set in a weird city from me ol China. But despite my misgivings it was pretty good.
It starts off with Mandinko the ex-slave escorting his white mistress to a buried tomb in search of treasure, which is a bit "oh oh". But I'm gonna stick with it and see what happens. Mandinko has died saving his white mistress and she has escaped and hopes to avenge his death.
I finished Un Lun Dun by China Mieville. Yet another fantasy about Socialism set in a weird city from me ol China. But despite my misgivings it was pretty good.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I loved the sly little poitical asides in Un Lun Dun. Subverting teh kids.
The massive library tunnel was good as well and the illustrations
The massive library tunnel was good as well and the illustrations
bmd
Island in the stream.
Yeah I really liked the illustrations too. I've got The City and The City to read next but I wanted to clean his stuff out of my head before I read that, so it's Stephen Hunt. Maybe.
I'm also reading Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton. I read and reread his description of love because I found it so true. If I remember I'll post it up here when I get home.
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
The Worst Rock n' Roll Records of All Time - Jimmy Guterman and Owen O'Donnell
- partly funny, partly just the writers being total jerks (and some of their choices aren't even rock'n'roll)
Doctor Who and the Hand Of Fear - Terrence Dicks (re-found a bunch of Targets that I don't remember buying
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Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler by Carl-Johan Vallgren (translated by Sarah Death)
- partly funny, partly just the writers being total jerks (and some of their choices aren't even rock'n'roll)
Doctor Who and the Hand Of Fear - Terrence Dicks (re-found a bunch of Targets that I don't remember buying
)Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler by Carl-Johan Vallgren (translated by Sarah Death)
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Bill Bryson- A walk in the woods
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Putting The Nether World on hold to read A Majestic Innings, which is a collection of writings on cricket by CLR James.
stethoscope
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George McKay - Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Maps That Made History: The Influential, the Eccentric and the Sublime by Dr Lez Smart. Following on from the beeb programmes. Damn fine book, although the maps he discusses are often not quite big enough to see all the detail you'd wanna. Still fascinating tho.
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
E Bronte - Wuthering Heights (17)
A poor novel.
A poor novel.
You fackin what??
Best of the Brontes! Brilliant fucking book that - one of my all time favourites!
You have no Romance in your soul, brutha
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
"The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters" G.W. Dahlquist - picked it up for a quid from one of the local charity shops and it seems to be shaping up nicely
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Generation A - okayish so far.
Gavin Stamp - Britain's Lost Cities. A bit of a coffee-table book but fascinating, and a fairly angry polemic about what's been done to British cities in the last century. Rightly, blames misguided town-planners and politicians more than the Luftwaffe....
Taras Grescoe - The End of Elsewhere. A very sideways look at tourism and its effects.
Taras Grescoe - The End of Elsewhere. A very sideways look at tourism and its effects.
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