Lard Bazaar 3,800 Posted November 25, 2017 I’ve just bought that Beatles book by that bloke too, Nigel Dixon or whatever his name is 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,682 Posted November 26, 2017 19 hours ago, Lard Bazaar said: I’ve just bought that Beatles book by that bloke too, Nigel Dixon or whatever his name is A wise move - and potentially a Christmas present for the Beatles fan who though s/he had everything. Tragically there are no mentions of Dave Grohl 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,232 Posted November 26, 2017 46 minutes ago, maryportfuncity said: and potentially a Christmas present for the Beatles fan who though s/he had everything. or indeed the one with the inconvenient January birthday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,800 Posted November 27, 2017 9 hours ago, maryportfuncity said: A wise move - and potentially a Christmas present for the Beatles fan who though s/he had everything. Tragically there are no mentions of Dave Grohl Well a good job it’s for my dad then Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,535 Posted December 25, 2017 On 8/17/2017 at 13:36, msc said: , there's a wonderful rant in defense of Ringo Starr Put in reply here so folk don't go "oh is he dead?" but apparently it shall soon be Sir Ringo. Totally did a search to see if it had been mentioned before, so no Clive Dunning the messenger... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,182 Posted January 5, 2018 Currently ploughing my way through this little beauty of a Christmas present: 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,415 Posted January 6, 2018 bird box - josh malerman very much recommended Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bibliogryphon 9,639 Posted January 8, 2018 For Christmas I got Doctor Who and The Krikketmen an adaptation of a Douglas Adams treatment for a never produced Doctor Who movie that eventually found its way into the Third Hitch-Hiker book, Life, The Universe & Everything. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torva Messor 281 Posted January 9, 2018 Found a hardcore kindred spirit in Nancy Mitford's Christmas Pudding: Quote Wendy Chadlington kept a little red pocket-book in which she wrote down the numbers of still-born babies every day as announced in the Births column of The Times. This lugubrious hobby seemed to afford her the deepest satisfaction. p. 127, Vintage Books, 2013 edition. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted March 13, 2018 Kalervo Palsa's "Eläkeläinen Muistelee" ("Retiree Reminisces"), a black-and-white inked comic-book recounting a plethora of highly surreal necrophiliac homosexual sadistic tales. In the end of the story the narrator (a mass necrophile who poisoned his family with the "destroying angel" (Amanita virosa, the white mushroom) dies and then has hot gay group sex with St Peter and other apostles. After this successful test of character he is admitted to heaven. He is told that all women go to hell because they have no dicks, as do those men whose dicks are too small. The Finnish cult artist Palsa had the reputation of a drunken artist masturbating at home and painting furiously. He used an incredibly varied palette of techniques and materials even including housepaint. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 16,232 Posted March 13, 2018 Just now, bladan said: Kalervo Palsa's "Eläkeläinen Muistelee" ("Retiree Reminisces"), a black-and-white inked comic-book recounting a plethora of highly surreal necrophiliac homosexual sadistic tales. In the end of the story the narrator (a mass necrophile who poisoned his family with the "destroying angel" (Amanita virosa, the white mushroom) dies and then has hot gay group sex with St Peter and other apostles. After this successful test of character he is admitted to heaven. He is told that all women go to hell because they have no dicks, as do those men whose dicks are too small. The Finnish cult artist Palsa had the reputation of a drunken artist masturbating at home and painting furiously. He used an incredibly varied palette of techniques and materials even including housepaint. Lovely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted March 13, 2018 12 hours ago, Toast said: Lovely. yes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heef 166 Posted March 13, 2018 Working my way through the Booker Prize short list nominees at the moment. Some of the nominees are so much better than the winners. e.g the Reluctant Fundamentalist > the Gathering; Morality Play > The Ghost Road. Some great books in the list, but some pap too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 8,675 Posted May 10, 2018 Here's one for the DL book club... 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,682 Posted May 10, 2018 Just started a colourful alternative history of the recent past called Albion Dreaming - basically a look at the history of psychedelic drug use in this country. Encounters with hippies/R.D. Laing/misguided mystics and a few of the most improbable random nutcases and well-meaning eccentrics await me - along with the inside track on the infamous Operation Julie of the 70's. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lard Bazaar 3,800 Posted May 10, 2018 A Man Called Ove - great book, you should read it. It’s about a man who wants to commit suicide following the death of his wife, but life keeps scuppering his plans. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
runebomme 377 Posted June 25, 2018 Stephen king reads one of his books Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,682 Posted July 8, 2018 Interesting read - albeit one that doesn't completely tally with online considerations of the same muder cases but... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted July 24, 2018 Modesty Blaise books and comics Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,365 Posted July 31, 2018 Tempted to add this to my wish list... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,058 Posted July 31, 2018 Did he make $290.000 by selling "How I made $290.000 selling books"? I read Cixin Liu's "Three body problem" last week. Hugo Award Winner. And it was worth it. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted July 31, 2018 On 08/07/2018 at 19:07, maryportfuncity said: Interesting read - albeit one that doesn't completely tally with online considerations of the same muder cases but... A like from lfn for the title won at White Hart Lane. BBC did a piece on him of late since Marys post. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06fhxr2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,682 Posted July 31, 2018 2 hours ago, charon said: A like from lfn for the title won at White Hart Lane. BBC did a piece on him of late since Marys post. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06fhxr2 Aye, going to give that a watch on Thursday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 11,058 Posted August 17, 2018 On 31/07/2018 at 19:40, gcreptile said: I read Cixin Liu's "Three body problem" last week. Hugo Award Winner. And it was worth it. I have now finished the sequel "The Dark Forest". It is quite unlikely anything I've ever read. A totally different book from the first part which was very character-based, with boundless creativity. First, the people behave more like ciphers for philosophical concepts, and the creativity leads to weird, boring places like a scientist being challenged by his girlfriend author to write a book on his own with his dream girlfriend and then the girlfriend becomes a hallucination that feels real (and then the tough detective from the first book finds a woman exactly like that hallucination for that scientist). But then, the narrative slowly pulls you in with aa couple of reveals, and the story turns dark, and then darker, and then darker. You literally lose faith in humanity. And then... Also, Philip K. Dick's Ubik, which begins as if the author was on something really good (probably true), and then becomes quite a lively story. Need to read more from him. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted August 17, 2018 31 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Also, Philip K. Dick's Ubik, which begins as if the author was on something really good (probably true), and then becomes quite a lively story. Need to read more from him. I recommend his short stories, often brilliant, and Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich (a novel), in this order. Some of his novels,especially the late ones, are boring. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
