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not meaning to be perverse or owt! but was this jason elliott from tipton?
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reading furvert's copy of Che's The Motorcycle Diaries. then i'll check the movie..
I just finished Buddha Da by Anne Donovan and loved it. The best (engaging, gripping, moving) book I've read in a while.
It's about a man -a painter/decorater and father of a teenage daughter- who gets interested in buddhism, gets into meditating, goes veggie, goes celibate,stops drinking and the inevitable rift this causes between him and his family and mates.
It's told from his wife's, his daughter's and his perspective and it's all written in Glaswegian - a bit tricky to read at first, but once you've got into it the characters really come to life. A wonderful book.
It's about a man -a painter/decorater and father of a teenage daughter- who gets interested in buddhism, gets into meditating, goes veggie, goes celibate,stops drinking and the inevitable rift this causes between him and his family and mates.
It's told from his wife's, his daughter's and his perspective and it's all written in Glaswegian - a bit tricky to read at first, but once you've got into it the characters really come to life. A wonderful book.
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Just started Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress Of Solitude - looking good so far - vivid descriptions of a childhood in 70s Brooklyn - something weird's going to happen though.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
Just about to start 'The Colour of Money' by Geoff Dyer.
It's set in Brixton and published in 1989.
It's set in Brixton and published in 1989.
MysteryGuest
beyond boring and interesting
I’m on a bit of a readathon at the moment:
Just finished:
Brian Clegg - A Brief History of Infinity
A good overview. Don’t know why however, as with so very many other pop maths/science books, there is that spiel about not being scared of equations, but he promises he’ll keep them to a minimum nonetheless, etc, etc… (a) if you’re not that up on maths you’re not going to understand anything anyway, so you may as well use equations and (b) equations are lovely. My main gripe is with Clegg’s explanation of Weierstrasse’s way of dealing with series limits, which tbh made little sense to me. I got a strong sense of something glossed over without being made clear. But the rest of it features the usual entertaining mix of human interest and maths, well balanced imo.
Lee Herring - Talking Cock
Good-natured, very witty book about nobs.
Charles Willeford - The Shark-Infested Custard
Trashy amoral, amusing pulp.
Currently reading:
Lust - Simon Blackburn
A very warm, compassionate, lucid, and insightful rehabilitation of one of the seven deadly sins. The production standard on this book is sky high and it’d make somebody a lovely present. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
Next up:
The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers - Robert & Ellen Kaplan
A strange, poetically written book that nonetheless covers a lot of proper maths stuff I did in my 1st year of A level maths, so it’s also a bit of a nostalgia trip. My maths is a bit rusty but this should be a good way of oiling it.
then at some point
Jung (ed) - Man and His Symbols, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconsciouss
Just finished:
Brian Clegg - A Brief History of Infinity
A good overview. Don’t know why however, as with so very many other pop maths/science books, there is that spiel about not being scared of equations, but he promises he’ll keep them to a minimum nonetheless, etc, etc… (a) if you’re not that up on maths you’re not going to understand anything anyway, so you may as well use equations and (b) equations are lovely. My main gripe is with Clegg’s explanation of Weierstrasse’s way of dealing with series limits, which tbh made little sense to me. I got a strong sense of something glossed over without being made clear. But the rest of it features the usual entertaining mix of human interest and maths, well balanced imo.
Lee Herring - Talking Cock
Good-natured, very witty book about nobs.
Charles Willeford - The Shark-Infested Custard
Trashy amoral, amusing pulp.
Currently reading:
Lust - Simon Blackburn
A very warm, compassionate, lucid, and insightful rehabilitation of one of the seven deadly sins. The production standard on this book is sky high and it’d make somebody a lovely present. STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
Next up:
The Art of the Infinite: Our Lost Language of Numbers - Robert & Ellen Kaplan
A strange, poetically written book that nonetheless covers a lot of proper maths stuff I did in my 1st year of A level maths, so it’s also a bit of a nostalgia trip. My maths is a bit rusty but this should be a good way of oiling it.
then at some point
Jung (ed) - Man and His Symbols, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconsciouss
L' Etranger by Albert Camus
The Other Side of Truth - an excellent children's book about two Nigerian children seeking asylum in England after their mother has been killed by the government in revenge for their father's activism.
And still reading Living With The Dead - a very funny account of life on the road with the Grateful Dead.
And still reading Living With The Dead - a very funny account of life on the road with the Grateful Dead.
Yep that's it! Damn you've ruined it!!!!!!!!!! 
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
finished "hegemony or survival" by noam chomsky, now reading "orwell's victory" by christopher hitchens.
or something ...
spliff
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Found in a second hand bargain bin 10pence.
HARLEY EARL by Stephen Bayley 1990
Apart from his name being so American to me, I mean he does sound like a Sheriff on a motorbike, he probably had a bigger impact on American culture than Wyatt Earp or Dennis Hopper.
He designed cars in the fifties with tailfins, two-tone colour and mucho chrome. He designed them with obsolescence in mind. He felt a car should be a symbol, a possession rather than just a means of transport.
So each year he would design something with bigger tailfins, more lights etc. The idea being those that could afford would buy new sending their older cars down the food chain. In fact everything that I'm against.
He designed and built cars that looked more like rocket-ships than anything NASA ever managed. Much more Buck Rogers stylee.
Anyway you don't need to read it now. I've given you a large synopsis.
If you're keen ISBN 0 586 08882 2 Grafton Books 1992
Edited to add: Oh! Look I just found this website which has pictures.
HARLEY EARL by Stephen Bayley 1990
Apart from his name being so American to me, I mean he does sound like a Sheriff on a motorbike, he probably had a bigger impact on American culture than Wyatt Earp or Dennis Hopper.
He designed cars in the fifties with tailfins, two-tone colour and mucho chrome. He designed them with obsolescence in mind. He felt a car should be a symbol, a possession rather than just a means of transport.
So each year he would design something with bigger tailfins, more lights etc. The idea being those that could afford would buy new sending their older cars down the food chain. In fact everything that I'm against.
He designed and built cars that looked more like rocket-ships than anything NASA ever managed. Much more Buck Rogers stylee.
Anyway you don't need to read it now. I've given you a large synopsis.
If you're keen ISBN 0 586 08882 2 Grafton Books 1992
Edited to add: Oh! Look I just found this website which has pictures.
As well as L'Etranger by Albert Camus, I'm also reading The Menstrual Cycle by Anne E. Walker. Its really interesting 
Brainaddict
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Pickman's Model what is Orwell's Victory like? Can't stand Hitchens but it's an interesting title.
captainmission
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the owl service by Alan Garner
picked up free from a book stall at a gig. It's rubbish but quite enjoyable with it.
picked up free from a book stall at a gig. It's rubbish but quite enjoyable with it.
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