*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
To be honest, at the moment, George RR Martin is probably watching the telly version before writing the rest of the series.
districtline
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Peter Ackroyd's London biography. Some interesting stories in there but the book could have done with a bit more structure...
DotCommunist
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Neverwhere probably his strongest. A fable in the tradition of Other London fantasies. Really good read. American gods, well thats a keeper. Being made into a TV series as we speak, starring ian mcshane. Imagine that an old order of gods was passing a way and the new gods arisin, what would they be? gods of data, gods of cars.
I'll warn ye tho that he can veer on the twee-Stardust is great if you can accept a little of the twee cos he does that one very fey and faery
Cheers dotty
I don't mind faery - quite like it in fact, so no worries on that score.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Cheers yeh, that one's been recommended to me on my FB shout out a lot too
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by derek wilson. A change from social or war history. so far a bit light, on the level of a tv docu but it hints at digging deeper later
Voley
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Finished ''A Brief History Of Time.'' I can say I've read it, trying to claim that I understood it would be pushing my luck a bit. I get black holes a bit more now, though, and that was the bit I was most interested in. I got lost at the bit about quarks and never really got back into it after that. Now back to the second book in the Game of Thrones saga which is more my intellectual level tbh.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I've just finished a depressing book - 'How to Survive a Plague, the story of how activists amd scientists tamed AIDS'. All about the HIV crisis in the 80s and 90s, until effective drug treatment became available.
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS: Amazon.co.uk: David France: 9780307700636: Books
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS: Amazon.co.uk: David France: 9780307700636: Books
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Oddly, this was much enhanced by the situation in which it was read (for me). Ordinarily, my sarcastic snarkiness would rise to the forefront with even a sniff of fey...but sitting in the woods in the horsebox, it was just the ticket. I sincerely doubt I would have enjoyed it's featherlight narrative in a grimly urban setting.
krtek a houby
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Just finished Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Outstanding and old fashioned.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Mega-City Zero- a judge dredd story (modern) which has a satirical look at web culture inamongst the usuals
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. Wish I'd read this a few years ago.
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher. Wish I'd read this a few years ago.
weltweit
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The Player of Games, Iain M Banks
This is the third time I have had this out of my local library, the first two times I didn't get round to it before my time was up, this time I am well into it and enjoying it. I including this I may have now read all Banks's Culture books. Shame there won't be any more.
This is the third time I have had this out of my local library, the first two times I didn't get round to it before my time was up, this time I am well into it and enjoying it. I including this I may have now read all Banks's Culture books. Shame there won't be any more.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
krtek a houby
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The Sandman series. Myths, legends, serial killer conventions... it's out there and is one of the best things he's written. IMHO.
krtek a houby
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Wolves of the Calla - 5th book in The Dark Towers series. Loving the references to his other works.
Voley
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'Reeling In The Years' - Mark Radcliffe. He picks a record for every year of his life and talks about what it meant to him at the time. It's a bit disappointing so far tbh. I really laughed at 'Showbusiness', his book about all the crap bands he'd been in, so was expecting something similar. This one's not as funny as it thinks it is, sadly, although he has had one pop at The Stereophonics that made me chuckle. I'm hoping it'll improve as he gets to the punk years.
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Argh! Donald Trump gets a mention regarding dodgy property deals!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
ringo
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Less sure. The crux of the farce rests upon Wooster blacking up and the ensuing hilarity that causes.There is some great writing, and definitely some real wit, but I can't stand farce and the racist/colonial/class/outdated shite is the nail in its coffin.
Farce's as a trope in general make me want to give up, whether book or film, because they tend to rest on the very predictable notion that the hero will get into an ever more ridiculous scrape but it will all get sorted out in the end. In this case, presumably, sorted out by Jeeves every time.
Am I just being being curmudgeonly or should I make an effort? Not far to go, I'll probably finish it now.
hot air baboon
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...arguably its quite subversive isn't it - the upper class males are total idiots whilst the servant Jeeves and the women are invariably streets ahead in intelligence & force of character...I seem to recall one fearsome aunt and her pet pug ....Jabberwocky 
ringo
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Yes, that's true, I'll give him that. It's mainly farce I don't like....arguably its quite subversive isn't it - the upper class males are total idiots whilst the servant Jeeves and the women are invariably streets ahead in intelligence & force of character...I seem to recall one fearsome aunt and her pet pug ....Jabberwocky
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It has a bit, I'm pleased to say. Just read a chapter on Kraftwerk, who I've never liked much, that is so enthusiastically-written I'm inclined to give them another listen.
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