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[kahlo]

books'n'stuff

Best book I've read in years is "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer, but it's still in hardback, so check out the library unless you're a rich person : ) (I'm not!)
Shows "White Teeth" up rightly, coz it's simple and different and just amazing... and the guy who wrote it was only 25 at the time.
If it doesn't win every award going I'm going to throw my laptop in the bin and strop

 

[flashpants]

Originally posted by pete
Of course the book you should all be reading is reviewed on page 26 of today's Irish Times "The Ticket" supplement....

Ain't got the Ticket in work, can you tell us what it is. Or is it a surprise, like a childhood Christmas when you run downstairs, unwrap your presents from santa and you find a small box of nails, one old shoe and your parents laughing from behind the couch?

 

[snap-apple]

Originally posted by flashpants


Ain't got the Ticket in work, can you tell us what it is. Or is it a surprise, like a childhood Christmas when you run downstairs, unwrap your presents from santa and you find a small box of nails, one old shoe and your parents laughing from behind the couch?

i'm guessing its the new irish underground vegan cook book (which also documents the good work of the Hope Collective).

 

[pete]

Originally posted by conor


i'm guessing its the new irish underground vegan cook book (which also documents the good work of the Hope Collective).

you win a fat cigar

 

[Alex]

And it's a very positive review, nice one!

 

[Keeror]

But, wait a minute, Hope never went for international gold, they put on small gigs for small people, and they get praise from the mighty Carroll?

Do you think if Leagues puts out a book about Wonky in a few years he'll get a revisionist backslap?

I am looking forward to reading Document though. Not so sure about the vegans, but, ahhh, the memories of Scrumpy Jack in Charlies on beautiful sunny afternoons....

And all for only €8 too!

 

[bob_jesus]

Originally posted by coraline
a fine balance by rohinton mistry

this is actually the best book i have ever read. really.

also anything by haruki murakami, they are all good.

especially "the wind up bird chronicle" and "dance, dance, dance"
also recommendable is Timothy Mo, "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk and anything by Michael Marshall Smith or Jeff Noon ("Pixel Juice" is a good intro!)

bob

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scraping god off the roof of my mouth...

 

[nlgbbbblth]

Originally posted by Keeror
But, wait a minute, Hope never went for international gold, they put on small gigs for small people, and they get praise from the mighty Carroll?

Do you think if Leagues puts out a book about Wonky in a few years he'll get a revisionist backslap?

I am looking forward to reading Document though. Not so sure about the vegans, but, ahhh, the memories of Scrumpy Jack in Charlies on beautiful sunny afternoons....

And all for only €8 too!

Me too. The gigs part anyway
Can we buy it this weekend or is it not available till the launches next week???

I can't make any of them as I am in poxy Newbridge for a course and we're not allowed leave the hotel

 

[Speed Racer]

I never came across a review of Wonky coz I was away. Is there one online?

 

[niallmc]

Document - book

IN case you read in the Irish times that the launch is next wednesday it is Friday but that gig is on Monday!!

I am meeting the printer tomorrow (Friday) in Cork. I hope to have the finished book up in Dublin on Wednesday. It will go into Road, Secret Book And Record Store and Freebird Thursday/Friday.

Mad times.... It's being launched in Savage Banter on Friday September 27, have to do a "signing" on saturday in the Fod Co-op, give a "lecture" on Sunday at World Vegetarian Dayand then on Monday Estel, Decal, Gary Fitzpatrick, Knifed and Angus are doing a gig in the Parnell Mooney

Hope to see some of you there

 

[spiritualtramp]

am halfway through porno ,have been getting odd looks from people on the bus as the cover has a picture of a blow up doll.

am not overjoyed with the book so far ,it is certainly not the best book he has written.

if you have not read any other irvine welsh stuff do not get porno ,get a copy of trainspotting.my copy of it is falling apart as i have read it so much.

although ,if you have read all his other books porno is interesting as all the characters from trainspotting are in it along with a few characters from glue.

a friend of mine from scotland was very drunk and bumped into mr welsh in a pub recently and embarrassed him by asking him quite loudly why did he always write about anal sex.he went very red ,mumbled something and left quickly.

 

[Anne OMalley]

The Correction

Lynne Ramsay (of "Ratcatcher" fame) recently made a film based on the novel, but I never heard anything about C4 doing a TV serialization. Film Four (now defunkt) might have had a hand in the film, though. Anyways, I'm slavering over the prospect of the film.

As for bukes... I've said it before here on Thumped, but of course nobody listens to Wanky Anne: everybody interested in writing should read as much Donald Barthelme as they can get their inkless fingers on - in particular the collections "40 Stories" and "60 Stories". Barthelme might have been the best prose stylist of the late 20 century. His stuff is dazzling and hilarious. It dances.

If you can't get hold of anything by Barthelme in the shops here, then you shouldn't have a problem finding W.G.Sebald's masterpiece "Austerlitz". Is it fiction? Is it non-fiction? What the hell is it? No-one knows. It's not a novel so much as a strange, slowly shifting enigma. It's a really quiet book - so much so that you don't even notice the sentence that lasts 30 pages.

Originally posted by kirstie
I'm looking forward to seeing how the series works out. C4 are also serialising Morvern Caller, Alan Warner's (first) book, which could be good too.