Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
I read this book a few years ago and it really was great. I'm not a huge fan of autobiographies, but this is well worth picking up. Like he's talking directly to you.
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I read this book a few years ago and it really was great. I'm not a huge fan of autobiographies, but this is well worth picking up. Like he's talking directly to you.
Yep. He's a great storyteller. His whinging about music from the 60's onwards (with a few exceptions) is kind of amusing...but he does credit younger musicians like Wynton Marsalis and Ornette Coleman on their technical skills, so I don't find him quite as 'bitter' as he has been accused of....he freely admits to being a massive fan of earlier peers and heaps praise on the personalities of most of them too. They seemed to be very close and supportive of each other....when horns weren't being pawned and suits nicked.
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I've had to put it down. She's gone against her own unspoken rule about brevity and meaning. In between passages of sheer literary glory, there are great big fucking wads of endless incredibly boring shit. Oh, Annie
BoatieBird
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I've had to put it down. She's gone against her own unspoken rule about brevity and meaning. In between passages of sheer literary glory, there are great big fucking wads of endless incredibly boring shit. Oh, Annie
I was really disappointed with it too
I stuck it out to the bitter end, mostly because I was reading it on holiday and I had the time to plough through it.
Some of the characters are beautifully written (as always), but it doesn't really make up for all the boring bits.
Idaho
blah blah blah
It's worth it just for the line :
"sports scientists are just PE teachers with laptops".
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Injustice: Gods Among Us
superman has decided enough is enough and he's going to kill or imprison without charge all the traditional enemies. Not the most highbrow of reading I'll grant you but the artwork is good and the story works
superman has decided enough is enough and he's going to kill or imprison without charge all the traditional enemies. Not the most highbrow of reading I'll grant you but the artwork is good and the story works
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Best thing I've read in ages, really funny. The old testament ranting, almost medieval rural characters are brilliant, with names like Seth, Amos, Urk and Reuben. My family are Sussex farmers, the patriarch encumbent on the farm when this book was based in the 1930's was my Grandad, Shadrach, who seems to have been just like the characters here. The older members of my family all talk like that too
The language is incredible, I can't wait to call someone a capsy wennet.
Cold Comfort Farm
Best thing I've read in ages, really funny. The old testament ranting, almost medieval rural characters are brilliant, with names like Seth, Amos, Urk and Reuben. My family are Sussex farmers, the patriarch encumbent on the farm when this book was based in the 1930's was my Grandad, Shadrach, who seems to have been just like the characters here. The older members of my family all talk like that too
The language is incredible, I can't wait to call someone a capsy wennet.
Cold Comfort Farm
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flypanam
Sausage to fortune
Really enjoying Matt Ruff's Lovecraft country, so much so I'm just reading 10 pages a day to keep enjoying the experience. Great style, easy to read but a very good examination of race in the US.
Also reading Angela Nagle's 'Kill all normies: online culture wars from 4chan and tumblr to Trump and the alt right. Just arrived yesterday, two pages in and it's already informative. Review here The alt-right and the death of counterculture
Also reading Angela Nagle's 'Kill all normies: online culture wars from 4chan and tumblr to Trump and the alt right. Just arrived yesterday, two pages in and it's already informative. Review here The alt-right and the death of counterculture
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genesisDoes1t
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When Breathe Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
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THIS IS WHAT I'M LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW:
-Rapper DaBaby, dude who wears a diaper but can actually rap: www.audiomack.com/album/artist1984/billion-dollar-baby
-R.I.P. prodigy of Mobb Deep, Infamous album on repeat
-4:44 Jay-Z
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THIS IS WHAT I'M LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW:
-Rapper DaBaby, dude who wears a diaper but can actually rap: www.audiomack.com/album/artist1984/billion-dollar-baby
-R.I.P. prodigy of Mobb Deep, Infamous album on repeat
-4:44 Jay-Z
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Halfway through The Darling Buds of May. It really is delightful, as the memorable tv series was.
However, there's a darker undertone to the book as mariette is pregnant and she's not sure which waster the father is, so pop thinks Charley would fit the bill, so sets to matchmaking them
However, there's a darker undertone to the book as mariette is pregnant and she's not sure which waster the father is, so pop thinks Charley would fit the bill, so sets to matchmaking them
Al-Britannia: My Country, by James Fergusson. Quite interesting, but am halfway through and still wincing at some of his attitudes and phrasing.
Also, Plum, by Hollie McNish, cos am gonna review it. Oh dear. Think this might be my first ever bad review. Bit stunned tbh. I'm a big fan of hers. Again am halfway through, so it might pick the fuck up in the second half. It's still not gonna be a great review though even if it does.
Also, Plum, by Hollie McNish, cos am gonna review it. Oh dear. Think this might be my first ever bad review. Bit stunned tbh. I'm a big fan of hers. Again am halfway through, so it might pick the fuck up in the second half. It's still not gonna be a great review though even if it does.
I didn't finish it in the end. Boring.
Full marks to you then BoatieBird . I kept falling asleep! Life is too fucking short to spend slogging through all that. It took the best ideas of Accordion Crimes and That Old Ace in the Hole and wadded them up with endless mundanity. A real shame.I was really disappointed with it too
I stuck it out to the bitter end, mostly because I was reading it on holiday and I had the time to plough through it.
Some of the characters are beautifully written (as always), but it doesn't really make up for all the boring bits.
I've just reserved it in our library, cheers ringoCold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Best thing I've read in ages, really funny. The old testament ranting, almost medieval rural characters are brilliant, with names like Seth, Amos, Urk and Reuben. My family are Sussex farmers, the patriarch encumbent on the farm when this book was based in the 1930's was my Grandad, Shadrach, who seems to have been just like the characters here. The older members of my family all talk like that too
The language is incredible, I can't wait to call someone a capsy wennet.
Cold Comfort Farm
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Film with Henry Fonder was good too but they avoided the 'milk of human kindness' mental ending.
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A modernist
Yep. Up there with The Tin Drum and The Star Rover for me as one of my favourite books.
BoatieBird
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Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove, also Butcher's Crossing by John Williams.
Orang Utan
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Land of Giants, Max Adams.
House of Treason, Robert Hutchinson.
In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood.
piling through Land of Giants, its walks along the early Medieval roads of Britain - like Adams previous book King in the North its fantastically readable, entertaining, and interesting beyond measure.
House of Treason, Robert Hutchinson.
In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood.
piling through Land of Giants, its walks along the early Medieval roads of Britain - like Adams previous book King in the North its fantastically readable, entertaining, and interesting beyond measure.
izz
Increased Leisure Citizen
Never read anything by her so I shall look it out - very many thanks.
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