What are you reading tonight?

[Prufrock]

Finished The Road. I'd got it in my head there was loads of violence and action. There's not. It's brilliant. So, so beautiful and harrowing. Recommend.

Next stop, one for the Bobos and Hobohs of the world, Michael Mansfield's Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer.

[William the White]

Finished The Road. I'd got it in my head there was loads of violence and action. There's not. It's brilliant. So, so beautiful and harrowing. Recommend.

Next stop, one for the Bobos and Hobohs of the world, Michael Mansfield's Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer.

He's a writer so harrowing that I really struggle to make myself read him... I finished All the Pretty Horses and thought it the most brilliantly bleak book I'd ever read. And, even though I bought two other novels, haven't been able to face reading them...

And have had the DVD of The Road and feel wary of watching it...

Michael Mansfield's wife (unless they are divorced now) worked at the Octagon as an actress in the 1970s and was an activist in the Bolton branch of the Workers Revolutionary Party as, indeed, I was at the time. Bobo and Hoboh would have fled a mile...

[Sponge]

I've been reading The Art of the Commonplace, a collection of essays by Wendell Berry. A life-changing book.

Yet .... you're still on here ???

[Verbal]

I went to a shop full of old tat on Sunday. Love that kind of stuff. Anyway got in and first thing to do is rummage through the books. Picked up a copy of Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes which I'm looking forward to immensely.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just started on "The History of the NME: High Times and Low Lives at the World's Most Famous Music Magazine" - not far in and it's bringing a lot of memories up from the depths.

[bobo the clown]

Just started on "The History of the NME: High Times and Low Lives at the World's Most Famous Music Magazine" - not far in and it's bringing a lot of memories up from the depths.

Are there any crosswords ??

I used to LOVE Thursday mornings doing them.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just started on "The History of the NME: High Times and Low Lives at the World's Most Famous Music Magazine" - not far in and it's bringing a lot of memories up from the depths.

Are there any crosswords ??

I used to LOVE Thursday mornings doing them.

I don't think they've put any crosswords in, but it is sprinkled with black and white photos throughout so there might be one hiding in there somewhere.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Just started on "The History of the NME: High Times and Low Lives at the World's Most Famous Music Magazine" - not far in and it's bringing a lot of memories up from the depths.

Are there any crosswords ??

I used to LOVE Thursday mornings doing them.

I don't think they've put any crosswords in, but it is sprinkled with black and white photos throughout so there might be one hiding in there somewhere.

Flicked all the way through - no crosswords, and no mention in index. Unrequited Thursday morning memories then.

[Gary the Enfield]

Just started on "The History of the NME: High Times and Low Lives at the World's Most Famous Music Magazine" - not far in and it's bringing a lot of memories up from the depths.

Are there any crosswords ??

I used to LOVE Thursday mornings doing them.

I don't think they've put any crosswords in, but it is sprinkled with black and white photos throughout so there might be one hiding in there somewhere.

Flicked all the way through - no crosswords, and no mention in index. Unrequited Thursday morning memories then.

Just read Nick Kent's autobiography 'Apathy for the Devil'. He comes across as a bit of a dick but it's an amiable enough read. It charts his life through the seventies and his sojourns with Iggy Pop, Chrissy Hinds, Malcolm Maclaren and the early Sex Pistols (of which, apparently, he was one).

[Nicko58]

Anyone here read Andrey Kurkov's Death and the Penguin?

A black comedy set in post-Soviet Ukraine, it's a surreal story about an aspiring writer; his relationship with his pet penguin; and their encounters with an unknown criminal organisation.

Finished it tonight and have now ordered the sequel, Penguin Lost, from Amazon.

[TANGODANCER]

John Grisham's The Appeal.

[Beefheart]

Nearly finished Crime & Punishment. It almost feels like a punishment at times.

[bobo the clown]

Nearly finished Crime & Punishment. It almost feels like a punishment at times.

Go on, give us a spoiler .... did they do it ???

[William the White]

Nearly finished Crime & Punishment. It almost feels like a punishment at times.

Go on, give us a spoiler .... did they do it ???

Crime committed by p50. murderer is Raskolnikov.

That do?

[CAPSLOCK]

Finished A day In The Life of Ivan

Wasn't so bad

Next, the Border Trilogy

[Verbal]

Obituaries, despite their reason for existing, are often the best, most enjoyable and well-written bits of a newspaper. There is one today in the Telegraph about Eric Lomax, a PoW captured on Singapore Island. His story is incredible and I implore you to read this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Lomax.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Now that I've hunted this little number down I'll give it a read...

[CrazyHorse]

It's got a shit ending. The horse ends up slaying the leopard.

[thebish]

Obituaries, despite their reason for existing, are often the best, most enjoyable and well-written bits of a newspaper. There is one today in the Telegraph about Eric Lomax, a PoW captured on Singapore Island. His story is incredible and I implore you to read this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Lomax.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

indeed! there is a r4 programme devoted to them... "brief lives?" - summat like that..

however - this is NOT true of the LOCAL paper obituaries section!!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Obituaries, despite their reason for existing, are often the best, most enjoyable and well-written bits of a newspaper. There is one today in the Telegraph about Eric Lomax, a PoW captured on Singapore Island. His story is incredible and I implore you to read this

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... Lomax.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

indeed! there is a r4 programme devoted to them... "brief lives?" - summat like that..

however - this is NOT true of the LOCAL paper obituaries section!!

I must admit I quite enjoy the Register section of the Times each day. I do Mind Games, back pages Football, Register, in that order, before reading any actual news.