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 Jan 9 2013, 03:31 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 473 Joined: 13-September 10 From: Lincs. uk Member No.: 764  |
Mike Barnes admirable beefheart biog. it's the 2nd book On The trot that has had a story s out pop stars meeting Count Basie in hotels. Yhe previous one was a story in Nick Kents book. The Sweet met him in a hotel lobby and didn't recognise him and took the piss by telling him to take their bags up to their rooms. I. This boom Cpt beefheart meets him in a hotel lift and asks for his autograph...says it all really doesn't it?
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Jan 9 2013, 03:58 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 471 Joined: 12-February 09 From: Pervginia Member No.: 33 |
Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas, starting the Culture space opera over again. Thoroughly enjoyed his latest, The Hydrogen Sonata, partly for the explanation of Mairain as being written in n-dimensional glyphs by which the Culture's Minds can exchange ideas at machine speeds in the same language used by panhuman basic biologicals. Full of wonderful gobbledegook like that, and nicely plotted, to boot.
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Jan 9 2013, 05:29 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 822 Joined: 12-February 09 From: England Member No.: 35 |
Georges Perec's A Void.
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Jan 10 2013, 10:14 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,372 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
Peter Hook The Hacienda
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Jan 10 2013, 10:24 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 11-February 09 Member No.: 13 |
Over the last 6 months I've read more or less everything Connie Willis has written.
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Jan 10 2013, 12:04 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,372 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
QUOTE (The Lost Jockey @ Jan 10 2013, 10:24 AM)  Over the last 6 months I've read more or less everything Connie Willis has written. OMG a female science fiction writer. Must be good for you to read all her work. How would you desctibe her style? |
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Jan 10 2013, 12:31 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 396 Joined: 15-February 09 From: Canada Member No.: 54 |
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Jan 10 2013, 07:04 AM) OMG a female science fiction writer. Must be good for you to read all her work. How would you desctibe her style? OMG, let me guess. Intelligent? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Jan 10 2013, 01:56 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,372 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
QUOTE (Suzi @ Jan 10 2013, 12:31 PM) OMG, let me guess. Intelligent? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) No, being invloved in a world ususally domianted by male geeks and winning major awards in the face of geekdoms inherent prejudices. |
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Jan 10 2013, 03:48 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 11-February 09 Member No.: 13 |
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Jan 10 2013, 12:04 PM) OMG a female science fiction writer. Must be good for you to read all her work. How would you desctibe her style? The sci-fi is just an angle really, she tells very human stories. Apart from a habit of using rather irritating contrivances to frustrate her characters' intentions she is very readable. She can do (truly) tragic - Doomsday Book (honestly one of the saddest, most moving things I've ever read), comic - To Say Nothing of the Dog (it's up there with Wodehouse), epic and adventurous - Black Out and All Clear, one story over two books and about 1500 pages. She's also good at sweet and endearing - Bellwether and Remake. She has some great short story collections as well. She ain't Proust but I love it. |
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Jan 10 2013, 04:02 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,372 Joined: 11-February 09 From: here. Member No.: 18 |
QUOTE (The Lost Jockey @ Jan 10 2013, 03:48 PM) The sci-fi is just an angle really, she tells very human stories. best starting point? |
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Jan 10 2013, 04:57 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 315 Joined: 11-February 09 Member No.: 13 |
QUOTE (Mr Tein @ Jan 10 2013, 04:02 PM) best starting point? Tricky - there are 4 books that concern time travelling historians from Oxford - Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, Blackout and All Clear. I started with the latter two but they do represent a major time commitment. And starting with Doomsday Book might be a bit heavy. So maybe save those for later and try Bellwether or Remake. They're both available on Amazon. If you like those the time travel books are her best I think. |
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Jan 11 2013, 12:58 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 473 Joined: 13-September 10 From: Lincs. uk Member No.: 764 |
A biog of alistair Crowley. I'm not into him or aught ...just curious It's a bit boring actually 100 pages in. I might even abandon it.
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Jan 11 2013, 09:43 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,391 Joined: 21-February 09 Member No.: 77 |
How To Get Rich by Robin Banks
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Jan 11 2013, 10:08 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 396 Joined: 15-February 09 From: Canada Member No.: 54 |
QUOTE (donavan @ Jan 11 2013, 04:43 PM) How To Get Rich by Robin Banks Good for you, don !!!! I hope it's as interesting as what I'm reading.... Falling Off A Cliff by Eileen Dover Carry on folks !!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Jan 12 2013, 01:44 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 20-November 10 Member No.: 854 |
'How Music Works' by David Byrne. It's pretty much what I would have expected from him.
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Jan 12 2013, 04:50 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 822 Joined: 12-February 09 From: England Member No.: 35 |
QUOTE (Suzi @ Jan 11 2013, 10:08 PM) Good for you, don !!!! I hope it's as interesting as what I'm reading.... Falling Off A Cliff by Eileen Dover Carry on folks !!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I've just finished Do You Like Me? by Frank Lee Noe. |
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Jan 12 2013, 04:51 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 822 Joined: 12-February 09 From: England Member No.: 35 |
I've just started reading Building Stories, a graphic novel by Chris Ware. I highly recommend it.
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Jan 12 2013, 11:01 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 6-May 09 From: The map's upside down, I tell you! Member No.: 183 |
QUOTE (spidermage @ Jan 12 2013, 04:50 PM) I've just finished Do You Like Me? by Frank Lee Noe. You should pick up Suicide by Edna Oven, or Tiger in My Bed by Claude Balls |
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Jan 13 2013, 07:02 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,391 Joined: 21-February 09 Member No.: 77 |
Loose Women by Nicholas Broads
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Jan 14 2013, 12:06 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 822 Joined: 12-February 09 From: England Member No.: 35 |
At the moment I'm reading Habibi, a graphic novel by craig Thompson. It's very good.
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