Kevin Carr's Gloves 3323 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Red Seas under Red Skies good sci fi fantasy stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Giving The Hobbit a re-read so it's fresh in my mind for when the film is released in a couple of months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 Started reading A Game of Thrones yesterday... already nearly 400 pages through! Can't put it down despite having seen the series twice and knowing what is going to happen for the first two books. Really enjoying the contextual information given to characters and previous events in the book, fleshes out the characters in a way that the series cannot do sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 "As If" by Blake Morrison, about the Bulger Case. Deep sobering, but seemingly out of step with public opinion, almost 2 decades later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 "As If" by Blake Morrison, about the Bulger Case. Deep sobering, but seemingly out of step with public opinion, almost 2 decades later Good to see you're familiar with Burroughs fella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Red Seas under Red Skies good sci fi fantasy stuff. What's the premise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9340 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 What's the premise? I'm not sure, but the Shepherd is bricking it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Good to see you're familiar with Burroughs fella. MA in C20th American Literature mate...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9340 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Anyone know a prolific author of 1930's Private Eye fiction? Where the self narrating lead man smokes, drinks, and quips his way through a "mystery" that isn't really deserving of the title? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 (edited) MA in C20th American Literature mate...... Ever read The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers(sp?)? Edited August 18, 2012 by ADP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene_Clark 12 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Ever read The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers(sp?)? that & short story collection "ballad of sad cafe" - intriguing to compare her with flannery o'connor; another tragic southern belle writing of misfits & social outcasts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADP 0 Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Aye ive read Ballad of Sad Cafe, thought it was equally brilliant as THIALH. Haven't read any Flannery O'Connor. Will deek it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 18293 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Reading 'Skagboys' by Irvine Welsh at the moment. Seems to be a return to form so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hostile_statue 0 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Anyone know a prolific author of 1930's Private Eye fiction? Where the self narrating lead man smokes, drinks, and quips his way through a "mystery" that isn't really deserving of the title? Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler (the latter more 1940's though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 9340 Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler (the latter more 1940's though) Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14185 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Marina Lewycka - We Are All Made Of Glue Entertaining enough ramble in a quirkiness-meets-Holocaust kind of a way from the Ukrainian tractors lady. The conceit of the title is laboured and doesn't hold up to scrutiny, but the story itself is perfectly engaging leafing fodder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39272 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Inspired by Parky, I'm reading this. I can't put it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2934 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Just ordered How Music Works which was released by David Byrne earlier this month. I know a few of you are TH/DB fans, so if you don't know about it. http://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Works-David-Byrne/dp/1936365537/ How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. In it he explores how profoundly music is shaped by its time and place, and he explains how the advent of recording technology in the twentieth century forever changed our relationship to playing, performing, and listening to music. Acting as historian and anthropologist, raconteur and social scientist, he searches for patterns—and shows how those patterns have affected his own work over the years with Talking Heads and his many collaborators, from Brian Eno to Caetano Veloso. Byrne sees music as part of a larger, almost Darwinian pattern of adaptations and responses to its cultural and physical context. His range is panoptic, taking us from Wagnerian opera houses to African villages, from his earliest high school reel-to-reel recordings to his latest work in a home music studio (and all the big studios in between). Touching on the joy, the physics, and even the business of making music, How Music Works is a brainy, irresistible adventure and an impassioned argument about music’s liberating, life-affirming power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Many thanks. James M. Cain is a good proper hard boiled detective read too. Chandler is brilliant, a major piss head but brilliant nonetheless. I love his Marlowe series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 17340 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Life and Limb: Jamie Andrew Jamie Andrew's survival and rescue after five nights trapped by a ferocious storm in 1999 has passed into Alpine legend. It was a miracle that he survived; but Jamie had to come to terms not only with the death of his close friend, Jamie Fisher, who died beside him - but also with the loss of all his limbs to frostbite. Since the accident, Jamie has struggled painfully and successfully to overcome his disabilities; not only has he learnt to walk (and run) on his prosthetic legs, but also to ski, snowboard, paraglide - and even take up his beloved mountaineering again. Show More Show Less Good read so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4005 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 A real book, with 1500 pages....... We should take a moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 28019 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) 'Dollar' Espionage story about an Irish-American spy working for the Nazis as Britain try to secretly smuggle the nations gold to America as we look vulnerable as we are alone against the Germans after France falls and we desperately need to buy equipment to replace what was left in France. Been a good read so far. (got it for only £1.67 on the kindle!) Edited January 5, 2013 by Howmanheyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Danny Baker's book. It's a pip and a dandy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Vic Reeves - Me: Moir Not great, but just needed something to skim through on the bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 36184 Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Anyone looking for good articles to read should go to the feature.net - it's a handpicked selection of th best articles saved to readitlater. There's some great stuff on there and in the best of 2011 and 2010 sections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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