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No ruddy idea what it's about though.
:-S
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There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
I picked up Dr Sleep in the charity shop yesterday, will make that my next one after the C J Sansom.
Takes me ages to get through books under normal circumstances but I was just on a work trip for a week and got through the Sammy Hagar bio - I think its call Red - and Bad Vibes by Luke Haines.
The Hagar book is cool. Confirms what a pair of rimjobs the Van Halen brothers are, and also reveals Sammy to a canny bollox. Most of his money comes from non-musical ventures.
The Luke Haines book is excellent. He hates most everybody and everything associated with Britpop. It's hilariously caustic. It made me wish I actually liked his band (The Auteurs) but they're pretty dull and I really don't like his voice. Defo worth a read though.
Noise, randomness, ballistic uncertainty.
There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
It's a collection of newspaper columns written between the wars by a German who found himself (in both senses) in France.
Beautifully evocative writing, so much so that next year's holiday is a road trip to Avignon/etc to trace his footsteps.
It's something I've never come across before, about Americans who left the States in the Great Depression and emigrated to the USSR. They start off by being welcomed but are soon subjected to the same sort of terrifying shit that other Soviets citizens were so luckyto enjoy.
Read a Peter May novel that was guff and now part way through the Martian based on a recommendation on here by @grunfeld IIRC. Sort of Robinson Crusoe meets Curious Incident of the Dog in space.
Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
I'm rereading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Papa, having just finished Green Hills of Africa.
I'm also partway through a second read of Blood Meridian, and McCarthy bears reading several times if only for the art of his language. His stories are powerful enough on their own but his prose has a stark beauty to it that needs another pass to really enjoy. Apart from maybe The Road, where the story is so fundamental it's more like reading an epic poem.
I just finished a reread of Last Exit to Brooklyn, which is one of my favourite novels of all time, along with Ishiguro's Remains of the Day and Forster's Howard's End. And Stephen King's The Stand, but I tend to leave that one out when I'm trying to impress people.
I recently reread An American Dream by Norman Mailer and to be honest it's the only novel of his I've really liked. Ditto In Cold Blood by Capote, although that one has an inevitable uniqueness.
I've promised myself to have another crack at Joyce's Ulysses before the end of the year, but frankly I don't think it'll be any more successful than my previous attempts.
I'm also reading the collected works of W. B. Yeats but that's more for dipping in and out of. Do people still read poetry anywhere but at school?