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Am I right in thinking Nik Cohn who was knocking about in the 70s writing for various people is the same Nick Cohen who writes for either the Observer or the Grauniad?
 
Dillinger4 said:
I am STILL waiting for my copy of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch.

It got delivered to my dads house instead of where I live. So it should be here on Monday.

In the meantime, I reread The Fall by Albert Camus, as it ties in with the existentialism essays I am writing.
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Huzzah. You know, my dishy lecturer specialises in Iris.

Me, I'm reading The Brooklyn Follies for my dissertation. I don't think I can even entertain the idea of reading anything for my own unadulterated pleasure for the next few months. Mind you, only 3 months to go now.




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I got to the end of book one of the Illuminatus! Trilogy and somehow wandered into a library and found two books which I need to read now.

So I've put Illuminatus down for now and I'm a chapter into 1933 Was a Bad Year by John Fante. No opinion of it yet!
 
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I'm beginning to think his first, The Crust On Its Uppers, is by far the best thing he did.
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I'm finding A state of Denmark frustrating because he can write, and some of it is wonderful, and the idea's great and correctly grubbily drably English, but the cockernee reads like On the Buses and he can't help point-scoring through the narrator. :hmm:
 
'oystercatchers' susan fletcher

its alright, I dont usually like books that are too descriptive, but this one is quite intriguing

bit frustrated as i want to finsish it quicker than i can be bothered to read, asi have 'empress orchid' by anchee min ro read...
 
chooch said:
I'm finding A state of Denmark frustrating because he can write, and some of it is wonderful, and the idea's great and correctly grubbily drably English, but the cockernee reads like On the Buses and he can't help point-scoring through the narrator. :hmm:
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His police dialogue is generally suitably Sweeneyesque; his dialogue, when it involves youngsters and villains, for some reason, falls flat on its arse.
 
Finally finished That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda.

'Finally' because, although it's not of monstrous length, it took me ages to read. It's a strange, philosophically charged, satirical crime novel set in Mussolini's Rome. Fascinating, not a bit frustrating, brilliant for long stretches, bracing. Nothing gets solved, there's lots of digression and natter, but it's worth it.

The Italians wrote some great novels in the 20th century, I'm just coming to realise this.

Now, I think, it's You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem.
 
Maurice Hamilton - RAC Rally 1932-1988. Found it in a shop in Blackheath at the weekend, and it's really rather good as a potted history of world rallying in general and the RAC in particular. And it ends right at the point I first started to get interested in the sport - with Markku Alen's emotional first win on the long, snowy 1988 event. £5 well spent, that. :cool:
 
Just borrowed a whole stack of China Mielville books- they're HUGE! I literally staggered under the weight as i carried them home...
Starting with: Perdido Street Station.
Nice cover... Haven't got any further yet. Will report back after I've actually read anything, if anyone cares. :D :oops:
 
maya said:
Just borrowed a whole stack of China Mielville books- they're HUGE! I literally staggered under the weight as i carried them home...
Starting with: Perdido Street Station.
Nice cover... Haven't got any further yet. Will report back after I've actually read anything, if anyone cares. :D :oops:
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maya said:
Just borrowed a whole stack of China Mielville books- they're HUGE! I literally staggered under the weight as i carried them home...
Starting with: Perdido Street Station.
Nice cover... Haven't got any further yet. Will report back after I've actually read anything, if anyone cares. :D :oops:
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perdido station is brilliant - haven't got around to reading any more of his books yet

currently reading

rumours of a hurricane - tim lott
 
I was reading "Atomised" by that french fella and was really, really enjoying it, but I've lost it somewhere. Bah!

Have got Sarah Walters' "The Nightwatch" in my bag now, but yet to start it.
 
I have my head in the M section of my dictionary of philosophy

Other books I have to flick through today:

Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Then for my dissertation:

Comparitive Federalism: A Systematic Enquiry
Citizenship and National Identity
Identity Politics
European Citizenship
Securing Democracy: Political Parties and Consolidation in Southern Europe
The Government and Politics of Spain
Contemporary Spanish Politics
Research Methods in Comparitive Politics

And a LOAD of Journal articles!

Argh

This is why my post count seems to have shot up recently.
 
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