Safe As Book

[John Mc]

The only book I've read out of the 50 is High Fidelity and I hated it. I thought the film was OK though.

[Dave w.]

i've read:
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Regeneration Trilogy - Pat Barker
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
What a Carve Up! - Jonathan Coe

all highly recommended, except high fidelity, which wasn't great

[gillworm]

I've just read (well about 50% read) American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis - what a bizarre book! I started skipping bits cos there was so much 'he wore this and she wore that' label dropping and then I skipped the really nasty torture sections...which didn't leave much to be read!

[ciaranm]

American Psycho is genius. Also, another bit of genius from that list is The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.

[nathanptm]

Any fans of Richard Brautigan out there should check out B S Johnson, I'm half way through Jonathan Coe's new biography which is well written and builds up a rounded picture of the man who brought formal experimentalism to the English novel of the 1960's - he is famous for producing a book in a box, with which the reader shuffles the separate chapters and reads them at random - cutting holds in pages so the reader can see forward to future events - and other typographic and narrative devices. 'Christie Malry's Own Double Entry' is a good novel to start with and is as funny and clever as anything Brautigan wrote, and Picador are reprinting three of his other novels in an omnibus edition this friday.

[gnumetal]

I just finished reading 'Liverpool Wondorous Place' by Paul Du Noyer, which apart from criminally ignoring the Boo's in favour of Atomic Kitten, charts Liverpool's musical history through it's three big clubs, The Cavern, Eric's and Cream. He does include 'Wake Up Boo!' in his top 100 mersey based songs of all time and says something like it's impossible to dislike but that's the only Boo mention. It's a really good read though, none the less.



I've now moved onto A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain , after my missus threatened to beat me to death with a frozen burrito unless I read it.

I bought Life of Pi ages and still haven't gotten around to reading it. I might read that next.

The best book I've read in a long time though is still A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, about a recovering crack addict. Its ace!

[gillworm]

[HarryCrews]

I've been reading The Big Sleep by Ramond Chandler. Good stuff, before that I read the Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Karumi. Says on the back, Raymond Carver meets Brett Easton Ellis via Don Delillo. What more do you need to know. Great Stuff

[HarryCrews]

Forgot to add, must 2nd the approval of BS Johnson and the biography. Spoke to Jonathan Coe at a lecture he was doing the other night in York. Can't remember what he said, was veh veh drunk on the free red wine.

Yum Yum

[Tommy BOO]

Setareh - I've read "Doktor Glas" now and I quite liked it. Very clever idea and well written. Thanks for suggesting it. However, I just noticed that I should have returned it to the library more than a week ago! BUGGER.

Now I want to read something else. Any suggestions?
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Setareh Juventina]

Yay...you know this is the first time someone actually listened to my book advice. people usually just say 'oh, I'll be sure to do that' and they never do.

I'm glad you liked it, it is good.

The cover of that Liverpool book is VERY beautiful!

Love and Peace
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Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it.

[Tommy BOO]

OK, I want to read something again.
Someone else please suggest me... well... something!
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"Tommy Boo has played a pivotal role in my life. I've looked up to him since I was a kid and he has inspired every note of music I have ever written. The man is a fucking genius" -BC

[Darraghh]

try slaughterhouse 5 by |Kurt Vonnegut. Very goood

[bravecaptain]

Ok, finished the Gary Younge book a couple of weeks ago. A black man born and raised in Stevenage goes to the deep south to follow the route that the Freedom Riders http://www.freedomridersfoundation.org/brief.history.html took in the sixties and meets some of the participants. Examines and compares the racism of the UK and US with some interesting results (ie both are racist only the americans are a lot more up front about it). Well written, recommended.

I started to read 'Madness in the Family' by William Saroyan which I've had for years but never read, I was enjoying it but left it someplace and had to start reading Louis Ferdinand Celine's 'Journey to the End of the Night' which is great so far. Then my cat kept reminding me of my old calvin and hobbes albums so I dusted one of them off and have been giggling at that.







Mx

[Tilly Mint]

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