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Post by clapton is god » Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:09 pm

^ and another, suited to my former activities:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=spoof ... hlc-ttM%3A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by thebish » Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:08 pm

clapton is god wrote:^ and another, suited to my former activities:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=spoof ... hlc-ttM%3A" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

aye - love that one! there are several spoofs - it seems they've decided "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" - do official spoofs! :-)

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Post by Prufrock » Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:16 pm

Finished Moby Dick on holiday. It's not really what I expected although Ishmael is a v interesting character. At parts it's almost an 18th-century scientific treatment of whales; at times it's part philosophy; and at others, it's raging action book. Loved it though, and he totally knew what he was doing keep writing about "sperm" all the time. he description of them getting it all out of the whale's head is piss funny!

Then read "What's Left" by Nick Cohen. Fantastic book, must read for anybody interested in politics, whether lefty or otherwise. Brilliant history of the rise of relativism, great treatment of Theory and an excoriating attack on the moral bankruptcy of the modern left that now, having lost the economic war and won the social one, can't accept the former and so jeapordises the latter by getting in bed with any crank, nutjob or tyrant who opposes America and liberal democracy, no matter how they treat their own people. A must read even if you don't agree with that^ because it sets the case against so compellingly.

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:54 pm

This morning I finished reading Go Set a Watchman. When I look back on it now as an overall piece it is very, very good indeed. After a light first half of, chiefly, Scout's reminiscences (which I now understand are needed to create the contrast) the second half gets darker and angrier as it goes along.

I'm now 60 pages into The Perfect Crime by Tom Parry. It's the story (and possible explanations) relating to the murders in a remote part of the French Alps two years ago. Horrible stuff.
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Post by clapton is god » Fri Oct 23, 2015 2:34 pm

I'm currently a good way into 'The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared." Very enjoyable so far, lots of humorous moments in it and a fair few laugh out loud ones. And it really is about what it says in the title.

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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:08 pm

clapton is god wrote:I'm currently a good way into 'The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared." Very enjoyable so far, lots of humorous moments in it and a fair few laugh out loud ones. And it really is about what it says in the title.
Half way through the book? At the age of 100, surely, he's only just got his slippers on! It'll take him till 3/4 to reach the bloody window.

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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Fri Oct 23, 2015 3:30 pm

I'm currently reading The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. Not at all what I was expecting in terms of plot, but I do enjoy his style with its amusing similes and metaphors.
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Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Sat Oct 24, 2015 1:13 pm

Going with the easy pleasers: latest Grisham, 'Rogue Lawyer'.
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Post by General Mannerheim » Sat Oct 24, 2015 3:29 pm

Getting stuck into big Sam...

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Post by William the White » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:49 pm

Today i finished Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men.. Booker nominee of 2006 - the unread are slowly diminishing. It is written by a Libyan writer who has spent much of his life outside Libya, and is set in Qadaffi's tyrannical society, with its personality cult, secret police, torture and live executions of opponents on television.

Its narrator is a nine year old boy, who is the son of an opposition activist whose underground organisation is being chased down by the secret police. Our narrator, in the innocence of childhood, is responsible for unintentional betrayal - his father and his father's friends (one of them the father of his best friend at school) are arrested with terrible consequences.

This is a tough book - but very good, moving, tense.

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Post by TANGODANCER » Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:47 pm

Quintin Jardine's Hour of Darkness The latest (I think) Skinner novel. Pretty sure I've read the lot now.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by General Mannerheim » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:41 am

enjoyed Big Sam's book. didnt learn a great deal but was nice to reminisce. no startling revelations but didnt know about the Akin Bulent and Bernard Mendy fight! his heart scare was a lot worse than he let on too... id have liked a few more anecdotes from his playing days on the piss rather than all the stats and figures, and a bit less 'long ball' denial too. decent enough steady read, cant imagine fans of other clubs would find it very interesting tho. (just read some of the 'ammers fans reviews on amazon!)
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:50 pm

Tango - Listening to the R4 Book programme this morning, they featured a book about Charlotte Bronte. Thought I'd bring it to your attention. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/o ... -biography" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Post by Harry Genshaw » Mon Nov 02, 2015 9:59 pm

General Mannerheim wrote:enjoyed Big Sam's book. didnt learn a great deal but was nice to reminisce. no startling revelations but didnt know about the Akin Bulent and Bernard Mendy fight! his heart scare was a lot worse than he let on too... id have liked a few more anecdotes from his playing days on the piss rather than all the stats and figures, and a bit less 'long ball' denial too. decent enough steady read, cant imagine fans of other clubs would find it very interesting tho.
The Bulent v Mendy fight? What happened there then?
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by TANGODANCER » Mon Nov 02, 2015 10:28 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:Tango - Listening to the R4 Book programme this morning, they featured a book about Charlotte Bronte. Thought I'd bring it to your attention. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/o ... -biography" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Cheers Bruce, I'll have a look at that.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by Prufrock » Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:12 pm

When I read his Booker-prize short-listed "J" last year, and saw him do a few interviews around it, I was quite annoyed by Howard Jacobson; he wound me up for some reason, and came across as extremely pleased with himself.

His prose still has that smug air, but there are two or three columns of his I've read over the past year that have really hit the nail on the head, none more so than this: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/we- ... 15601.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by General Mannerheim » Tue Nov 03, 2015 7:11 am

Harry Genshaw wrote:
General Mannerheim wrote:enjoyed Big Sam's book. didnt learn a great deal but was nice to reminisce. no startling revelations but didnt know about the Akin Bulent and Bernard Mendy fight! his heart scare was a lot worse than he let on too... id have liked a few more anecdotes from his playing days on the piss rather than all the stats and figures, and a bit less 'long ball' denial too. decent enough steady read, cant imagine fans of other clubs would find it very interesting tho.
The Bulent v Mendy fight? What happened there then?
they just fkin hated each other apparently. a punch up started after a 50/50 tackle in training. they got separated and Mendy was sent to the office. next thing Bulent smashes the door down flies into him again! BSA said it was the most violent fight he saw in his career.

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Post by bobo the clown » Tue Nov 03, 2015 7:43 am

^^^ missing out the point that it was reported that Bulent pulled a knife in this fight. Which sort of raises it a notch.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by William the White » Tue Nov 10, 2015 5:58 pm

I've just completed '1606' - subtitled 'William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear' by James Shapiro. This is his sequel to his multiple award-winning '1599' which tells the story of the building and opening of the Globe.

1606 was the year that Shakespeare completed three major tragedies - Macbeth, Anthony and Cleopatra and, most famously, King Lear. You're on a mighty talented roll as a writer to throw together three masterpieces in just over 12 months!!!

Shapiro writes very well; his work is a mix of political, social and literary history and insightful analysis of the plays he considers. Inevitably much of it is speculative but he makes his arguments well. And, above all, his work is interesting!.

It isn't as good as 1599. But it is very good. :D

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Re: What are you reading tonight?

Post by thebish » Tue Nov 10, 2015 6:11 pm

aye - everyone in 1606 said that the olden days of 1599 were much better!

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