DotCommunist
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I'm about to start a flashman book I got from the charity shop
*What book are you reading? (part 2)
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The Last Game - Jason Cowley - the last game in this case being Arsenal's defeat of Liverpool to win the league in 1989, which the author sees as a turning point in football after the bleakness of eighties football. Nicely written, and combines the sociological theorizing well with his own personal and family history.
i loved it, even if the ending is a bit crazy
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
nick hornby wrote about the same match in fever pitch
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d w meinig (ed.). the interpretation of ordinary landscapes: geographical essays
Johnny Canuck3
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I'm reading a book about the generals who commanded the British army in Africa, 1940-45. I've just finished with General O'Connor.
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churchill finished with him about 65 years ago
Johnny Canuck3
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churchill finished with him about 65 years ago
He got 'finished' when he got captured by the Germans.
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churchill never got captured by the germans, he was captured by the boers
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
great innit?
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
churchill never got captured by the germans, he was captured by the boers
General O'Connor was captured by the Germans. He was doing a forward recce around the Tobruk area IIRC.
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nick hornby wrote about the same match in fever pitch
He does mention Fever Pitch a few times in the book, and there's an interesting bit when he talks with the author of the main academic work on Hillsbrough who really disagreed with and was angered by the film version of the book as it made the Arsenal-Liverpool game in '89 much more of a focus to the story than it is in the book (whereas the '87 semi-final is the turning book in the book). All in all, the book is very different to Fever Pitch as it's more of a reflection on how football as a whole has changed in Britain, rather than being one fan's story or journey.
nick hornby wrote about the same match in fever pitch
He does mention Fever Pitch a few times in the book, and there's an interesting bit when he talks with the author of the main academic work on Hillsbrough who really disagreed with and was angered by the film version of the book as it made the Arsenal-Liverpool game in '89 much more of a focus to the story than it is in the book (whereas the '87 semi-final is the turning book in the book). All in all, the book is very different to Fever Pitch as it's more of a reflection on how football as a whole has changed in Britain, rather than being one fan's story or journey.
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im rereading pride and prejudice (for the nth time). it's the only book i can read till the end. i've put down a lot of novels halfway through so i dont know what to do of them. guess i have to reread them again. lol
Fictionist
Serving Eargasms....
Just finished re-reading 'Enderby's Dark Lady' by Anthony Burgess. This works so well across many levels, and is funny in an intensely passionate way. If you love Shakespeare this is a book you must read, particularly for the late (and self -referencing) nod to science fiction.
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QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Still reading "Use of Weapons" which I am enjoying though not finding as engaging as some of the other Culture novels.
A visit to the library yesterday netted me Alan Furst's "The Polish Officer" and Christopher Fowler's "The Victoria Vanishes" so probably one of those next.
A visit to the library yesterday netted me Alan Furst's "The Polish Officer" and Christopher Fowler's "The Victoria Vanishes" so probably one of those next.
stalled on several books lately - James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain, Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun, Peter Carey's Oscar & Lucinda - because I always find it harder to concentrate in the 'summer'.
So I've got Let The Right One In to have a crack at instead
So I've got Let The Right One In to have a crack at instead
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
you won't regret it
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
yeah, i intend to read that too
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Dalton Trumbo - was he a screen writer blacklisted in the 1950s?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
he was indeed
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
the film johnny get his gun is amazing
i've got that ready to watch but thought I'd read it first. That, the Baldwin and the Carey are all definitely books I'll go back to, sometimes you just need to match your mental state.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
Now reading The Stuff of Thought - Steven Pinker. Did you know that the term 'spam' for unwanted mail comes from the Monty Python sketch? Obvious really.
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