I just found out that it's part of a trilogy. Which one would you recommend more The Singapore Grip or Troubles?
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I just found out that it's part of a trilogy. Which one would you recommend more The Singapore Grip or Troubles?
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Both are excellent but I think that The Singapore Grip leads on more from The Seige of Krishnapur as it concerns the collapse of colonial power
Started The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy last night, but had just had the first decent spliffs in about a month so wasn't in the most attentive frame of mind for it
I've never been into crime fiction, but picked it up at the charidee shop cos I knew the name Black Dahlia. Interesting style of writing so far (or that could have been the weed). Anyone read owt by him?
I've never been into crime fiction, but picked it up at the charidee shop cos I knew the name Black Dahlia. Interesting style of writing so far (or that could have been the weed). Anyone read owt by him?
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Yeah, I've read that one and The Big Nowhere. I liked them both; they were more or less the first proper crime fiction I read. I thought Nowhere was the better book though.
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Or eat herring in Alaska
I've read his Kavalier and Clay, but he seems to have ratcheted up the style on this one.
I did prefer Kavalier & Klay because of the scale of it, and the characters who I really loved. But YPU is probably better written. Although the ending is odd
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
He's got a singular, very frenetic style borne of copious acquaintance with amphetamines. You couldn't call it elegant ...
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
I did prefer Kavalier & Klay because of the scale of it, and the characters who I really loved. But YPU is probably better written. Although the ending is odd
I'm enjoying it so far. It is a lot denser and more crafted than K&C, but the jokes are better
Yeeess...sort of a bull charging kind of style
It's not elegant no, but I am always interested in different styles of writingCheers - think I might start it from the beginning tonight, and not spliff beforehand!!
i'm reading a book group book from months back that i bought at the time but have only just got 'round to reading: About The Author by John Colapinto. Really wish I read before and discussed* it with others at book group. 
*by discussed I mean ate cheese and drank wine in the presence of the book
*by discussed I mean ate cheese and drank wine in the presence of the book
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
The House of Asterion - Borges
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Finished Kafka On The Shore this morning. Hmmm. Bit patchy really - parts of it I liked a lot, but other parts just made me grind my teeth a little bit.
Dunno what to go for next...maybe a Mieville.
Dunno what to go for next...maybe a Mieville.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
I really enjoyed KotS, but it still isn't a patch on his best efforts.
Of the Mievilles, Perdido Street Station and The Scar are both ace - start with Perdido if you haven't read any of them.
I thought Iron Council was disapointingly week after the first two and I haven't read any of his non-New Crobuzon/Bas Lag stuff
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
King Rat is good as an other London tale, but very 'first novely' if that makes sense.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Loved 'The Scar'
good interview with him here: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200504/?read=interview_mieville
good interview with him here: http://www.believermag.com/issues/200504/?read=interview_mieville
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
dude if you have some time to kill this ones a very in depth interview. Goes right into his trot politics and all that shebang as well as the books
http://www.depauw.edu/SFs/interviews/mievilleinterview.htm
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Nice one, cheers - yeah plenty of time to kill, my company's going down the pan.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Man, that brings back memories -he mentions the Borrible's - I read all of them when I was about 13 and had just moved to London. Great teenage books.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I keep meaning to pick them up, as I'm after writing an Other London myth for me dissertation likes
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
I picked up Charles Nichol's 'The Lodger' today, not my usual area of interest but I thought I would give it a try.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
I'm going to start Perdido Street Station soon, but have picked up a collection of Hazlitt essays for bedtime reading so as not to knacker my weak girlish wrists.
Rainingstairs
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Alan Moore's "From Hell" quite extraordinary.
also, a Ray Bradbury collection of short stories that's depressing the fuck out of me and I'm about to stop.
and a Phillip K. Dick reader that's a fun one
and just finished the new Hell boy with the new guy doing Mignola's art...was actually my favorite one so far.
also, a Ray Bradbury collection of short stories that's depressing the fuck out of me and I'm about to stop.
and a Phillip K. Dick reader that's a fun one
and just finished the new Hell boy with the new guy doing Mignola's art...was actually my favorite one so far.
Dark Matter by Greg Iles. Quite enjoyable, but I'm not sure if it can't quite decide whether it wants to be an enjoyable piece of pap, or something more serious.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Phillip Pullman, Northern Lights. I bought it for my son, started reading it with him and haven't put it down since...
I wish his books had been around when I was a young girl, it's great reading it as an adult, I can only imagine how amazing it must be to read it as a 12 year old (for some reason I imagine this to be the best age for reading it
)!!!
I wish his books had been around when I was a young girl, it's great reading it as an adult, I can only imagine how amazing it must be to read it as a 12 year old (for some reason I imagine this to be the best age for reading it
)!!!Let me know what you think of the Hazlitt. People like brawlin' Tom Paulin are always banging on about him, but it's just not the sort of thing it would ever occur to me to read...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Phillip Pullman, Northern Lights. I bought it for my son, started reading it with him and haven't put it down since...
I wish his books had been around when I was a young girl, it's great reading it as an adult, I can only imagine how amazing it must be to read it as a 12 year old (for some reason I imagine this to be the best age for reading it
I think thats the age group it's aimed at. Excellent stuff though ennit.
I'm STILL on satanic Verses
'We are the ones you cannot forgive Mahound. Whores and writers'
Phillip Pullman, Northern Lights. I bought it for my son, started reading it with him and haven't put it down since...
I wish his books had been around when I was a young girl, it's great reading it as an adult, I can only imagine how amazing it must be to read it as a 12 year old (for some reason I imagine this to be the best age for reading it
Same. I bought it for my lass, and it was a couple of years later that I picked up the first book. Was hooked from that point on.
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