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Dreadful book. So disappointed with it. Having read all the Flashman and some of his other works.
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Dreadful book. So disappointed with it. Having read all the Flashman and some of his other works.
Finished 54 by Wu Ming the other day. Sorry to see it end. Beautiful ludicrous epic.
I enjoyed it as much as Q which surprised me. I never knew about Frances Farmer. Joe McCarthy!
Going to try of their other works but on to Heaney's Beowulf now. Then Strumpet City by James Plunkett.
I enjoyed it as much as Q which surprised me. I never knew about Frances Farmer. Joe McCarthy!
Going to try of their other works but on to Heaney's Beowulf now. Then Strumpet City by James Plunkett.
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'Smear! Wilson and the Secret State.' Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay.
One penny paperback edition + Postage. Hardback prices from £240!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0586217134/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
One penny paperback edition + Postage. Hardback prices from £240!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0586217134/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The Secret History - Donna Tartt. I saw a thing in the Guardian the other day. She's about to bring out a new book, apparently. I had never heard of her, which is surprising as she was at college with Bret Easton Ellis and Jonathan Lethem and I like both of them, so I got this. I like it a lot. I'm about a third of the way in and I'm entirely seduced by the world she describes and the sense of foreboding that hangs over the telling. There's something of Nick Carraway in the narrator but the story is spookier and somehow darker than Gatsby. But maybe that is to come. It is more golden at this point. Undergraduate life at its most romantic.
BoatieBird
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I loved The Secret History white rabbit, but I loved her second book, The Little Friend, even more.
Looking forward to her new one.
Looking forward to her new one.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Secret History is a great read, never read any Tartt before or since, but that ones a keeper
BoatieBird
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You should give The Little Friend a read Dotty, brilliant book imo
belboid
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now that is a sentence I never thought I'd read anywhere!
BoatieBird
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Really?
Have you read it?
It was recommended by a couple of friends who thoroughly enjoyed it.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
yeah - it is indeed very good. But I have never known anyone who thought it was better than Secret History, which is just mindbogglingly good.
BoatieBird
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Certainly it's a close run thing, they are both brilliant books.
Looking forward to reading The Goldfinch.
ringo
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Nearly started that today, might have a go after Dance With Dragons, does look good.
belboid
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indeed - dont think I've looked forward to a novel as much since Bring Out The Bodies
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Reading Danny Baker's autobiography - Going to See in a Sieve.
Enjoying it so far - good representation of life on a council estate, and a working class lad in the effette music world.
Good bit about how The Clash were great on stage but unpopular off it - too much political posturing, and you were always in danger of offending whatever prescribed stance Bernie Rhodes had decreed they be following that week.
Sham 69 supposed to be a lot more fun, if you just want a drink and a laugh
Enjoying it so far - good representation of life on a council estate, and a working class lad in the effette music world.
Good bit about how The Clash were great on stage but unpopular off it - too much political posturing, and you were always in danger of offending whatever prescribed stance Bernie Rhodes had decreed they be following that week.
Sham 69 supposed to be a lot more fun, if you just want a drink and a laugh
Just finished the first book and loved it. Looking forward to A Clash of Kings.
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck.
ringo
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Really enjoyed it. I can't remember what it was about Canal Dreams that put me off him, i'd enjoyed Wasp Factory, but looking forward to catching up with the rest of his books, a clever and interesting writer.
Will try his sci-fi at some point too.
BoatieBird
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I don't think he felt that Canal Dreams was one of his best.
There are only a few of his books that I haven't read now (The Quarry, The Bridge, Dead Air, Transition) and I'm eeking them out because I know I'll be sad when I get to the end of them
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The bridge is certainly his most unusual non sci fi- all very surreal
BoatieBird
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iirc he thought of it as one of his finest. I've got it on my kindle so it will be read shortly
belboid
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he was right, its probably his worst by a long chalk. Just doesnt work, and a crap ending. Tho its hardly the only one with a crap endingI don't think he felt that Canal Dreams was one of his best.
There are only a few of his books that I haven't read now (The Quarry, The Bridge, Dead Air, Transition) and I'm eeking them out because I know I'll be sad when I get to the end of them
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