krtek a houby
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Kim Newman's "The Bloody Red Baron". Vampires in the Great War, Edgar Allen Poe, Mata Hari and other notables.
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
VS Naipaul's A Bend in the River. Pleasantly surprised. Slow paced, but evocative and painfully honest. May need to read it twice.
City of Night is very unusual and funny. It depicts the hustling scene of LA, New York, New Orleans and San Francisco in the early 60's. Theres deep analysis from the narrator...who is essentially Rechy himself, a clever introvert who reveals little to his customers but shares all his observations with the reader. He spends his time 'scoring' men on the beach and the streets, but the book is not about sex, so much as the characters he meets. The writing is very powerful and there are some really sad stories as well as hilariously outlandish scenes of violence, suspense and extravagance. It took me a while to read - two months - and got a bit scratchy in the middle but I raced through the last 200 pages when it really came into its own as a fantastic novel.
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You are fucking kidding, right? Not as good as Orwell?! Deary me. Ray Bradbury's got more fucking genius in his little toenail than Orwell!
Finished this last night and it's rather wonderful. Reminded me a bit of Angela Carter and earlier Jeanette Winterson, and I don't want to use the words 'magical realism' but I'm gonna have to I'm afraid. Don't let that put you off though. Excellent storytelling, had me glued.
Fucking library's shut today would you believe, so I'm falling back on the fella's copy of Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Read it before, twice actually, but years ago, and love the story, so reading the minutiae again will be interesting until I can next go the library.
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Like I said before, my literary taste isn't too good. Please can you recommend another Ray Bradbury novel?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
if you want the follow on 'Dracula Cha Cha Cha' on .epub just PM an email address.
Every single one he's ever written - take your pick. He was hugely prolific.
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Stop right there
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I don't understand what that is, but thanks anyway
tis an ecopy, an electronic copy of the book. I take it you are strictly a 'physical, actual book' man. Is well good though. Bloody Red Baron is ww1, Dracula Cha Cha Cha is set in the 30's.
I've been reading this quite slowly mostly just one piece at a time as it is short stories but I'm enjoying it. A great writer.
I'm also just getting to the end of The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 by John Carey.
It's a book examining the relationship between the social and political rise of the 'masses' and the culture/ideology of (mostly modernist) intellectuals, specifically focusing on the way in which the cultural activities and consumption of ordinary people (in particular the newly-literate members of the working class and lower-middle class) was viewed with contempt and fear by a self-styled intellectual aristocracy. I was a little bit dubious about this one as I wondered if it would end up being all fairly obvious stuff, which to some extent it is, but there is a fair amount of informative and entertaining as well as unsurprising detail. Given that it's not all that uncommon to find people today who seem to think that most people are mindless 'sheep' whose views are beamed into their heads by the media it's quite interesting at least to look at some of the history of this kind of classist misanthropy.
A most excellent choiceThank you
I will try 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' next.
No. I'm right. Not slagging off Orwell, but Ray IS a better writer.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
He IS NOT
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I had my fingers crossed
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Worth checking Wikipedia when you've finished it, to find out all the extra-obscure literary references you've missed.
Buddy Bradley
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I'm reading The Dirt, the Motley Crue autobiography from a few years back. Nice short chapters.
I've given up with this at only 6% complete. Don't like the authors style and i care even less for the characters i have encountered. No doubt it is a good book but not for me.
Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela.
Voley
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Cover tells you all you need to know, really.
Overview of all the main ones plus a few I'd never heard of before, lent to me by a bloke at work who pretty much believes all of them.
Entertaining if incredibly 
on a regular basis as you'd imagine. I'm enjoying the sensationalist way it's written too, even if it's not meant to be a joke. Refreshingly, even for someone that clearly believes a lot of this, David Icke doesn't get a particularly favourable write-up. For a shit book it's remarkably compelling - I got about halfway through it last night. The 'Were there two Yorkshire Rippers?' chapter was a new one on me.
I SAID no barleymows Anyhoo - started Turn of the Screw last night and my GOD, there ain't half been some clever bastards
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don't know what a barleymow is, so it doesn't work on me.
Call yourself a Northerner - pah!I don't know what a barleymow is, so it doesn't work on me.
Anyway yes you did
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Well it doesn't count as i had my fingers crossed before you said that. So there.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
that workmate is trying to recruit you!
Cover tells you all you need to know, really.
Overview of all the main ones plus a few I'd never heard of before, lent to me by a bloke at work who pretty much believes all of them.
Voley
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That's what he wants you to think.
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