No, the bloke one is next on my agenda
it's the most repetitive of them all - quite gag-inducing at times, or maybe that's just me Well worth a read though - quite eye-opening!
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it's the most repetitive of them all - quite gag-inducing at times, or maybe that's just me Well worth a read though - quite eye-opening!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace - brilliant!
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
The Laughing Policeman - Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Loving my crime novels at the moment
Been in Brixton 15 years and been in Bookmongers on Coldharbour Lane ONCE so far
Loving my crime novels at the moment
Been in Brixton 15 years and been in Bookmongers on Coldharbour Lane ONCE so far
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
Did you like it?
Sjowall & Wahloo is representative for a certain overtly social-realistic (or should i say 'social democratic'), gritty 'antihero detective' kind of scandi crime novel of the 1970s... Very of its time, but classic in the genre...
They did a whole ream of novels about Beck IIRC, all very readable, some masterpieces.
rollinder
Dont walk away in silence
Kill Your Friends by John Niven.
An entertaining enough read if you've an interest in the Britpop years but really, Martin Amis should sue.
yeah - I thought that too
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
I'm re-reading Ghosts and Travels in the Scriptorium by Auster for my dissertation. I should read a bunch of his others too, but I simply don't have time. Let's hope I'm good enough at blagging eh?
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Dillinger4 persuaded me to buy this. It's on my list for when I finish uni in a couple of weeks. I got his earlier Drown too - looks fab.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I made a start on Dave, but couldn't get into the argot - I'll give it another go, cos I had no trouble with Riddley Walker - a book I'm always trying to get people to read
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
Just started Philip Kerr's new Bernie Gunther novel "A Quiet Flame".
He writes so well in a noir style - pithy, amusing and apt one liners - as well as providing in Bernie an engaging, interesting protaganist while commentting on the political situation in1950's Argentina and Germany. Excellent
He writes so well in a noir style - pithy, amusing and apt one liners - as well as providing in Bernie an engaging, interesting protaganist while commentting on the political situation in1950's Argentina and Germany. Excellent
Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang.
He's one of my favourite writers - he can make you adore characters - Oscar and Lucinda will always be one of my favourite books. This one's interesting for the narrative voice he's created, it's Australia - I guess first/second gen settlers so it's a mad mix of Irish, American words with the Australian dialect developing. It's based on a series of journals - I'm assuming fictional ones but I haven't investigated the creation of the book, I'm just enjoying it at the moment. It's a good yarn - lots of horse stealing etc but again the characters shine through stronger than the tale they inhabit.
I think I'll read Oscar and Lucinda again this summer - with a crystal cathedral in the territories!
He's one of my favourite writers - he can make you adore characters - Oscar and Lucinda will always be one of my favourite books. This one's interesting for the narrative voice he's created, it's Australia - I guess first/second gen settlers so it's a mad mix of Irish, American words with the Australian dialect developing. It's based on a series of journals - I'm assuming fictional ones but I haven't investigated the creation of the book, I'm just enjoying it at the moment. It's a good yarn - lots of horse stealing etc but again the characters shine through stronger than the tale they inhabit.
I think I'll read Oscar and Lucinda again this summer - with a crystal cathedral in the territories!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
^^^^
that book is boss! Have you read The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith, and Jack Maggs?
that book is boss! Have you read The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith, and Jack Maggs?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes! Esp Tristan Smith - Carey's one of those writers whose work you feel you need to ration, so you don't use him all up
It was tricky for the first 50 pages or so, but as long as you remember the i with an accent was a glottal stop, the rest falls into place.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Thank fuck I've finished my shitty Pepys assignment and can get on with reading other stuff again. Going to start Oryx & Crake tomorrow, also rereading The End of Alice for book group (my choice - muhahahaha).
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Executioner: Pierrepoint.
The autobiography of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most prolific and skilled public executioner. Pierrepoint hanged 608 people, including some of the most infamous murderers of his time and many Nazi war criminals. His father and uncle were also public executioners.
Pierrepoint later turned against the death penalty, like many a public executioner before him stating that none of his hangings had achieved anything except revenge. He also highlighted the inconsistent and arbitrary nature of the death penalty as it was applied in Britain.
It's an absorbing read and not heavy on the gore, so those with weak stomachs are unlikely to be particularly shocked, while the more voyeuristic reader might prefer something the memoir of hangman John Ellis (My Experiences As An Executioner) or the memoir of Syd Dernley (a former assistant executioner) published under the title 'The Hangman's Tale.' While the gore aspect is played down, not that judicial hanging is at all gory if performed correctly, the technical aspects of a proper hanging are gone into in considerable detail.
The autobiography of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most prolific and skilled public executioner. Pierrepoint hanged 608 people, including some of the most infamous murderers of his time and many Nazi war criminals. His father and uncle were also public executioners.
Pierrepoint later turned against the death penalty, like many a public executioner before him stating that none of his hangings had achieved anything except revenge. He also highlighted the inconsistent and arbitrary nature of the death penalty as it was applied in Britain.
It's an absorbing read and not heavy on the gore, so those with weak stomachs are unlikely to be particularly shocked, while the more voyeuristic reader might prefer something the memoir of hangman John Ellis (My Experiences As An Executioner) or the memoir of Syd Dernley (a former assistant executioner) published under the title 'The Hangman's Tale.' While the gore aspect is played down, not that judicial hanging is at all gory if performed correctly, the technical aspects of a proper hanging are gone into in considerable detail.
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Got nothing new so am re-reading The Snow Queen - Joan D Vinge........
haven't read it in an age !
haven't read it in an age !
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Propitious Esculent by John Reader, and as it's mentioned a lot in Reader's excellent book on the world history of the potato, I'm re-reading The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith. I'm also reading various books on mediaeval history, but those are short commuting reads rather than settle down for a marathon with pot of tea at my elbow books.
maya
timewasting fool (in every universe)
I've just read it! Might've been on your recommendation too, because I first picked up the name from urban, or more specifically this thread...
Loved it, but struggled really hard to get through it- had to turn back and read whole pages twice or more just to get the content, and the primitive spk is a nightmare to grok (although that is precisely the point)
Really glad i persevered, though.
Must be in a bad state with books - abandoned Ford too.
But read Talk Talk by TC Boyle in a few hours, another great Boyle book (and with a leading character who's deaf, which he handled well and I found interesting).
Another sleepless night meant I started on The Way We Wore by Smart Bob Elms. I like Elms even though he's really irritating in some ways, and the book is like that. I can hear him reading it as I do
Tell you what though, if ever a book needed illustrations, this is it. Not having been a top mod in 1973, I have absolutely no idea what a Salatio box-top loafer looks like.
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