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Currently reading the Stuart Christie book, Granny made me an Anarchist. It's good but I keep wandering and probably missing bits.
So, I also started to read Charles Burns...Black Hole. I got it last week; the hardcover collection of the comic series. It's excellent, top story so far and the illustration is great too.
So, I also started to read Charles Burns...Black Hole. I got it last week; the hardcover collection of the comic series. It's excellent, top story so far and the illustration is great too.
madamv said:On order
I love the internet. I see a book here, fancy it, order it second hand and by magic, it arrives within a few days....
Ah... I. Love. Books.
This thread is great for that. Come across a few gems myself. I went for the Dvd about the underground folk though, less than a fiver
wiskey said:i was reading Moab is my Washpot by stephen fry but i got a bit stuck when he was about14. i really enjoyed the bit i read i just fizzled out a bit.
so now i'm reading Middlesex by jeffrey eugenides on stigs reccomendation and its already proving to be a superb book
I love both of those books!
Middlesex is absolutely mindblowing. I can't believe someone could write something so amazing.
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No, but I want to after seeing Wheatle on the BBC Brixton doc the other week.brixtonbard said:
Hang on, you're not the author are you?
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Joseph Roth
I've been on a Joseph Roth spree the last couple of weeks. A truly great writer well served by some great translation (esp by Michael Hofmann). I read 'The Radetzky March' last year, which is a stonecold masterpiece. I've recently read:
'Confession of a Murderer Told in One Night': A spy yarn/love story set in pre-revolutionary Russia, shifting to pre-WWI Paris, very elegant, but probably not the best introduction to his work.
'What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33': Roth was first and foremost a journalist. This collection focuses on 20s Berlin -- the flipside to Weimar romanticism, and a nice prose accompaniment to Grosz, Dix and the rest. An exercise in New Journalism 40 years before Wolfe.
'Right and Left': A very funny, atmospheric and occasionally vicious dissection of middleclass pretensions in 20s Berlin. Not much of a plot, and it kind of fizzles out at the end, but very fine nonetheless.
'Hotel Savoy': One of Roth's fables. Disturbing in a very subtle way.
'Rebellion': Just brilliant.
I'm now onto 'The Spider's Web', Roth's first, which is him feeling his way in the novel form.
There's never a dull moment with Roth; brilliantly funny; great use of metaphor; vicious when he wants to be; a very compact and concise style without ever being too dense. It's amazing how he managed to write so much great fiction in range of styles over a relatively short period (15 years or so, at one a year). How his work managed to stay forgotten for so long outside Germany is a real mystery.
He had a very interesting and ultimately tragic life.
Anyway, there's still plenty to read, but I probably need a break now.
I've been on a Joseph Roth spree the last couple of weeks. A truly great writer well served by some great translation (esp by Michael Hofmann). I read 'The Radetzky March' last year, which is a stonecold masterpiece. I've recently read:
'Confession of a Murderer Told in One Night': A spy yarn/love story set in pre-revolutionary Russia, shifting to pre-WWI Paris, very elegant, but probably not the best introduction to his work.
'What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33': Roth was first and foremost a journalist. This collection focuses on 20s Berlin -- the flipside to Weimar romanticism, and a nice prose accompaniment to Grosz, Dix and the rest. An exercise in New Journalism 40 years before Wolfe.
'Right and Left': A very funny, atmospheric and occasionally vicious dissection of middleclass pretensions in 20s Berlin. Not much of a plot, and it kind of fizzles out at the end, but very fine nonetheless.
'Hotel Savoy': One of Roth's fables. Disturbing in a very subtle way.
'Rebellion': Just brilliant.
I'm now onto 'The Spider's Web', Roth's first, which is him feeling his way in the novel form.
There's never a dull moment with Roth; brilliantly funny; great use of metaphor; vicious when he wants to be; a very compact and concise style without ever being too dense. It's amazing how he managed to write so much great fiction in range of styles over a relatively short period (15 years or so, at one a year). How his work managed to stay forgotten for so long outside Germany is a real mystery.
He had a very interesting and ultimately tragic life.
Anyway, there's still plenty to read, but I probably need a break now.
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Yep, that'll be me. I was just browsing around when I noticed this forum. I like all the debates so I joined. Simple as.
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i started it on sunday and i'm already half way through. i've sat up till the wee small hours glued to it. that hasnt happened for years.
and madamev - i shall continue to read moab but now reading middlesex i can already feel it doing things to my head that moab never did. i can already tell that by the end of middlesex i shall be sad its over
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Welcome aboard - I'll endeavour to read your book nowbrixtonbard said:
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Yeah, writers are normal people. Still trying to find my way around these forums. I didn't realise these things were around
Definitely. It's really moving and incredibly well written in parts. Romantic and informative too. Gets the thumbs up from me as well. We were going to copy one part of it for work... can't really say which part if you haven't finished, but it's very good.wiskey said:i can already tell that by the end of middlesex i shall be sad its over
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It's a shame that the two main bookshops around Brixton closed - Index in the market and Wordsworth in Butterfly Walk, Camberwell. I used to sell very heavily there and pop in all the time. I just hope we don't get a Waterstones or a Borders in their place
Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem.
It's fantastic (reading it for Book Group but felt I must plug it to you as well)
The main character is so absorbing - he has Tourette's yet is a sort of gangster's heavy which makes for some random and innappropriate ticcing. Lethem has a real flair for apposite description. He's put me inside that man's obsessive, itching mind like I wouldn't have believed - and it's fucking funny to boot.
It's a kind of crime thriller but the plot is secondary to the character and his experiences so don't let that put you off if you're not into them.
Read it and love it
It's fantastic (reading it for Book Group but felt I must plug it to you as well)
The main character is so absorbing - he has Tourette's yet is a sort of gangster's heavy which makes for some random and innappropriate ticcing. Lethem has a real flair for apposite description. He's put me inside that man's obsessive, itching mind like I wouldn't have believed - and it's fucking funny to boot.
It's a kind of crime thriller but the plot is secondary to the character and his experiences so don't let that put you off if you're not into them.
Read it and love it
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It's a terrible shame - Index is now a fishmongers - like we need another one of thosebrixtonbard said:
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I don't remember it being that good - all I remember is him shouting 'duck! duck! GOOSE!' and how they never had any cabsPieEye said:Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem.
It's fantastic (reading it for Book Group but felt I must plug it to you as well)
The main character is so absorbing - he has Tourette's yet is a sort of gangster's heavy which makes for some random and innappropriate ticcing. Lethem has a real flair for apposite description. He's put me inside that man's obsessive, itching mind like I wouldn't have believed - and it's fucking funny to boot.
It's a kind of crime thriller but the plot is secondary to the character and his experiences so don't let that put you off if you're not into them.
Read it and love it
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And I'm always arguing with the manager at WHSmiths.
They are located actually east of Acre Lane but for some reason they won't stock my novel EAST OF ACRE LANE - it's so frustrating! Especially as in Index I sold well over 150 copies of the book. They stock Brixton Rock and Checkers but not my most acclaimed title - its crazy! Sorry, letting off ste
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They are located actually east of Acre Lane but for some reason they won't stock my novel EAST OF ACRE LANE - it's so frustrating! Especially as in Index I sold well over 150 copies of the book. They stock Brixton Rock and Checkers but not my most acclaimed title - its crazy! Sorry, letting off ste
am here.
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Admittedly, I probably didn't give it my full attention - it was a gift from my mum and I rarely like her choices.PieEye said:the tics are nothing like that. And they don't have any cabs for a good reason. Not paying attention Orang!
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