Distortions - Ann Beattie
Distortions - Ann Beattie
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
I read one of them. I was unaware there was a second one. The one I read was decent.Originally Posted by Jerjo
You Suck - Christopher Moore. Moore takes on the vampire genre.
A Comfort Zone is not a Life Sentence
Just started Catherynne M. Valente's Space Opera. It (so far) reads very much in the zone between Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide) and Sir Terry Pratchett (the Discworld books). Glad to know someone's still mining that ore.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Well that needs further investigation
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Yeah, I'd like to concur based on even that little bit of info. Funnily enough, I tried to loan a Discworld book to a friend last night. He was going to take it but he's a drunken Irishman so he forgot.
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
Death Spore by Harry Adam Knight
I'd swear the premise of this book was played out on the new tv show Miracle Workers. I'll have to go back and look but I'm sure I just saw this recently.
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
I haven't read State of the Art (yet), but Anathem might just be my favorite novel by anyone ever. It just clicked with me for some reason.
No doubt. Incredible Neal Stevenson!
Other than the "save Earth from destruction" concept, no. This is about a down and out funkpopglam star being abducted, along with the one remaining member of his original band, to represent earth in a sort of intergalactic Eurovision Song Contest. It's like Terry Pratchett in that there is serious stuff hiding amongst the humor, but the humor itself is more like Douglas Adams.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Under the Fang (Horror Anthology) edited by Robert McCammon
About halfway through " Prince Of Thorns", book 1 of Mark Lawrence's "Broken Empire" trilogy. Loving it so far! Gritty fantasy without the bloated world building that tends to slow the genre down. Razor sharp prose so far...
"Corn Flakes pissed in. You ranted. Mission accomplished. Thread closed."
-Cozy 3:16-
Well, Space Opera was a hoot beginning to end.
Now reading: Circe, by Madeline Miller.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Jaws 2 by Hank Searls
The book I read after The Handmaid's Tail (which in fact tells the story roughly shown in series 1) I started reading the second book by a Dutch thriller-writer, Ronald Van Der Pol, who's leading figure is a progrock-lover. And guess what, the first band he mentioned was Porcupine Tree! Speaking of Full Circle.
What Do You Call That Noise? (An XTC discovery book)
Sweetheart, Sweetheart by Bernard Taylor
Bring It on Home by Mark Blake. A biography of manager Peter Grant. Mighty interesting.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
Finished Circe. Very good, a real work of literary art.
Now on Tolkien's Tale of Kullervo. (About halfway through; it's a very short book.)
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
How quickly do you read?
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
So if the average novel is 90,000 words it takes about four and a half hours to read. I wonder why it takes me 6 months to finish a book?
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I don't know the words per minute, but I finish 75-100 books per year, depending on length, style, etc. of what I read in a given year. But I don't watch teevee, so that gives me a lot of reading time.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
I'm about to start Jonathan Coe's Middle England, which can be see as Rotter's Club part 3 (Broken Circle being part 2)
It had been a fair while since the under-average Number 11, which was written by Edgar Allan Coe
OK, I should finish tonight though this highly enjoyable Rotter's Club Pt 3.... I had to drop the book for four weeks because of more urgent reading matters, but I've been devouring the second half (with a vengeance) in the last couple of days.
Found quasi all of the protagonists of the first two books happily without having to go back and find out what they did before or who they were.
A delightful description of the London 2012 games opening ceremony and the reactions are delicious.
Then comes the absurdities of the Brexit and the damage it can have caused inside couples, etc...
As for Benjie's life oeuvre... I won't spoil it, but ....
As far as music is concerned, we've got more references about it than in Broken Circle (Ch 2), and there is a delectable moment where Trotter is being interviewed by a young blond female journalist as part of his book release and promotion and he speaks totally clumsily of Hatfield & The North and of prog rock in general to explain the complexity and yet accessibility of his writings... However the journo understands zilch of the concept and context and will totally misquote him, just retaining spicy but deformed scoops.
Sure, the hardback book did set me back of €26, but it was a quite enjoyable read
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
The Girl in a Swing by Richard Adams
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks