*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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Just started reading this
It's absolutely fascinating! And well written
It's absolutely fascinating! And well written
Oh yes, recently finished this -- brilliant
All about the highs and lows of the UK free-festival era from roughly Isle of Wight Festival's dissident event outside its gates (1970) to Castlemorton (very much including Stonehenge but also lots of smaller events).
Abrahams and Wishart are editors and only contribute small amounts themselves, the vast majority of it is anecdotes and memories and short themed chapters from those involved either as organisers, performers or simply people "just going along to festival X, man!"
All about the highs and lows of the UK free-festival era from roughly Isle of Wight Festival's dissident event outside its gates (1970) to Castlemorton (very much including Stonehenge but also lots of smaller events).
Abrahams and Wishart are editors and only contribute small amounts themselves, the vast majority of it is anecdotes and memories and short themed chapters from those involved either as organisers, performers or simply people "just going along to festival X, man!"
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Lyrical. Dark.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
All I've read so far are the picture captions, but I Genuinelol'd a couple of times. I'm going to enjoy this.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Homicide: A year on the killing streets. Quite good.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Oh yeah, that's a fantastic read.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
After being crap at novel reading all year, I’m finally catching up a bit.
Muriel Spark - Memento Mori. Very funny meditation on death and what it means to us. Reminded me a bit of Lolly Willowes, in that it seems to be just a genteel pastiche of bourgeois values, but is actually cutting and rather wicked. It also has a character in it called Granny Trotsky.
Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach. A far more ‘traditional’ Novel then A Visit from the Goon Squad, tho that does it no harm for the most part. I loved the first three-quarters, but as the climaxes started to build it became a bit obvious, with scenes I just didn’t quite believe. Still well written and enjoyable, but not quite as good as it might have been.
Anna Burns - Milkman. Unnamed people during the troubles in the early seventies. I’m only a third of the way in, and I suspect it may turn into a ‘boys and their toys’ view, but it’s gripping stuff so far.
Muriel Spark - Memento Mori. Very funny meditation on death and what it means to us. Reminded me a bit of Lolly Willowes, in that it seems to be just a genteel pastiche of bourgeois values, but is actually cutting and rather wicked. It also has a character in it called Granny Trotsky.
Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach. A far more ‘traditional’ Novel then A Visit from the Goon Squad, tho that does it no harm for the most part. I loved the first three-quarters, but as the climaxes started to build it became a bit obvious, with scenes I just didn’t quite believe. Still well written and enjoyable, but not quite as good as it might have been.
Anna Burns - Milkman. Unnamed people during the troubles in the early seventies. I’m only a third of the way in, and I suspect it may turn into a ‘boys and their toys’ view, but it’s gripping stuff so far.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
It’s magnificent. mrs b started it last night and was immediately giggling away.
I’ve only read that, Ballad of Peckham Rye and the Prime of... I must correct this.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.
Based on a classic telly series (with a wet-shirted Colin Firth) and not as inpenetrable as I thought it might be.
Based on a classic telly series (with a wet-shirted Colin Firth) and not as inpenetrable as I thought it might be.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
If there was a thread called 'Books you thought would be shit but turned out to be great', this would be my entry.
Yes deffo - read anything of hers that you can get your hands on. Such condensed writing, so much in so few words, with a ferociously cutting sense of humour
I've not long finished reading the Wheel of Time series for the second time.. It's an awful lot of reading.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Plain awful, I'd call it. 2 books in was enough for me.
I loved them,, they started off a little slowly but then I really got into them
There's some great ideas in there but I found there were also too many lengthy periods with not a lot going on.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
I've just started re-reading Wheel of Time. Enjoying it so far but aware I may regret deciding to do this!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the journey was long but I did finish them all, by choice and it was worth it. Rumours abound about a series, which could potentially be good.
I thought Sanderson did a good job of finishing the series off as well, it wasn't *the same* authorial style but it was good enough.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
w.b. yeats 'a vision and related writings'
You won't regret it,I hope.
It was quite noticeable.. I was reading it and thinking no way this character would have said this in that way.. It was acceptable and I'm glad it got finished, but it was never quite Robert Jordan
I'm quite into Nick Alexander at this point too, similarly different genre but quite interesting for a "light read"
Baronage-Phase
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Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake by Leo Damrosch.
Beautifully written with a great insight into Blake, his life, poetry, art and imagination...And his philosophy of life.
Beautiful quality colour plates and illustrations. 100 in all.
Beautifully written with a great insight into Blake, his life, poetry, art and imagination...And his philosophy of life.
Beautiful quality colour plates and illustrations. 100 in all.
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
There is a lot more humour in the last couple of books. 7 8 & 9 are a bit boring though. I have done it thrice.
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