*What book are you reading ?
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Just finisher the excellent 'What Was Lost' by Catherine O'Flynn-a dark yet really funny book about a missing child in a a shopping arcade in Birmingham with some wonderful observations in about our shopping culture and am now reading 'Death Of A Murderer' by Rupert Thompson, a fictionalised account of Myra Hindley's death and so far, very good.
Dirty Martini
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chooch said:
I wonder if there's more of his Berlin journalism waiting to be translated. It's a brilliant collection, New Journalism decades before anyone else.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
Ham and Rye by Charles Bukowski, fucking great stuff, knocked off first ten chapters last night, sitting in the bath with a brewski 
Barking_Mad
Non sibi sed omnibus
Just finished Tolstoy's 'Resurrection'. Simply superb.
Now reading 'The Forged Coupon' by Tolstoy, which is only 90 pages long - thankfully
Now reading 'The Forged Coupon' by Tolstoy, which is only 90 pages long - thankfully
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins - absolutely brilliant - clear, calm and so well argued - I was led to believe that it was an arrogant rant but not so. Thank you Richard for giving this lazy atheist ammunition against the legions of superstitious irrationalists out there.
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
Cop Hater by Ed McBain, the first in his 87th Precinct novels.
Its about someone who hates cops, obviously, & kills 3 of them in the course of the book. Its the 4th one ive read & am finding them very enjoyable. Fast paced & full of in depth procedural detail.
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Its about someone who hates cops, obviously, & kills 3 of them in the course of the book. Its the 4th one ive read & am finding them very enjoyable. Fast paced & full of in depth procedural detail.
(Wonders what will be done to this post)
Dirty Martini
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I finished The King Is Dead by Jim Lewis. I thought I was going to enjoy this, and I did for the first 100 pages or so, more or less. But despite some great passages of observation, it's overblown and overwritten, with a hackneyed plot, poor dialogue and a denouement that limps in, hands up. It's got that sharp intelligence that good American novels have, but seems to have been written from a mind populated exclusively by books.
It does have a chapter featuring a very thinly disguised Hank Williams, but what it's doing there I have no idea.
It does have a chapter featuring a very thinly disguised Hank Williams, but what it's doing there I have no idea.
finished the Gospel Singer by Harry Crews - phenomenal stuff
now going to crack on into The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland cos I'm going to see him talk about it next week
now going to crack on into The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland cos I'm going to see him talk about it next week
the button
out on the kocker
Rudyard Kipling's Collected verse. There's more to it than "If" & casual racism. Honest.
Dirty Martini
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the button said:Rudyard Kipling's Collected verse. There's more to it than "If" & casual racism. Honest.
I haven't read much of the poetry, but he was one of the best short story writers ever imo.
I'm reading The Beast In The Nursery by Adam Phillips.
Papingo said:THE GOD DELUSION
Yay! I don't have to respect people's delusions just because a lot of peopele share it any longer.
just bought that
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It's great for arguing - you'll love it - he hasn't called any bishops cunts yet thoughDubversion said:just bought that
Orang Utan said:
that's cos he's a pussy
Have been going through another bout of my 3am insomnia attacks, and finding Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby the perfect cure. 30 mins of that and I'm back to sleep again, and not simultaneously singing songs in my head/thinking of 50 different things to do in work next day/wondering what to eat tomorrow/etc etc
dynamicbaddog
run for your life
starfish said:
That's an absolutely brilliant book
I'm a big Mcbain fan, I've read most of the 87th Precinct books - still got a few left to go tho
jonnyd1978
Handsome lads are playing chess in your area
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney. I'm about a 3rd of the way through. Excellent so far.
Dirty Martini
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I finished The Beast In The Nursery by Adam Phillips, which is an alternately vague and quite detailed disquisition on childhood imagination and curiosity, and how the imperatives of childhood can fruitfully be taken into adult life in order to make it happier -- or at least, how the conflict and impossibility that that process entails can be enjoyed. 'Expecting the earth, we get something'. A kind of pleasurable (post-)Freudian mess.
However, as with most stuff that leans on psychoanalysis and Freud, I can't rid myself of the occasional nagging feeling that it's very attractively packaged guff. Phillips does a decent job of addressing those concerns, writes in a way that makes you a bit more interesting to yourself, and sells a nice line in reading and literature as essential pleasures for the psyche.
Verdict: nice tits.
So, I'm reading his Promises, Promises, which is a series of essays on psychoanalysis and literaure.
However, as with most stuff that leans on psychoanalysis and Freud, I can't rid myself of the occasional nagging feeling that it's very attractively packaged guff. Phillips does a decent job of addressing those concerns, writes in a way that makes you a bit more interesting to yourself, and sells a nice line in reading and literature as essential pleasures for the psyche.
Verdict: nice tits.
So, I'm reading his Promises, Promises, which is a series of essays on psychoanalysis and literaure.
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