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Aah the wonderful Hunter S. Usually have The Great Shark Hunt on the bedside locker, comfort reading you understand.

If he'd topped himself a bit earlier I like to think he's have usurped Kurt's place on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns8YeNKPjAA

  • 6 months later...

Just finished "The Farm" by Richard Benson. Fortunately I didn't notice the Richard & Judy sticker on it - it always makes me put a book back! It charts the life of his dad as a farmer in Yorkshire.


Absolutely wonderful read, especially as I'd recently read "Lark Rise to Candleford". Both books highlight the changes in farming and community about a 100 years apart.


"The Farm" is a very poignant look at how ignorance and greed and things like CAP have changed the way we farm in Britain.


Highly recommended, Richard & Judy notwithstanding.

For football fans, I've just finished "Just as long as you don't kiss me" which is a fascinating biogrpahy of the late Brian Clough.


It charts his rise, fall, rise again and finally his alcohol wraught demise. Beautifully written and tragi-comic scenes. Emotional towards the end.


Heartily recommended. It also won the William hIll Sportsbook of the Year.

Snorky, I read most of Charles Bukowski's stuff a long long time ago and obviously there had to be an element of fiction to his writing for it to have been creditable. Obviously he wrote what he knew about and exagerrated other parts.


Here's my take on a typical Bukowski paragraph - "Woke up, scratched my balls, staggered to the John, threw up and took a shit. Went to the fridge, grabbed a beer, got in the car and went to the racetrack. Met a woman, took her back, got drunk , we fu*ked, drank more and crashed."

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> C.S.Lewis, Voyage of the Dawn Treader - something

> I missed out on as a child


I love the Narnia books - although when reading them as an adult the Christian sentiment came over a bit strong!

Part way through Pickwick Papers, Sam Weller has just joined the story as Pickwicks man servant so the best is yet to come. According to master Dickens the periodic pickwick writings became more popular once Sam appeared.

My last good read was 'I claudius' and 'Claudius the God'. I say good read in the loosest possible sense, as I use audio books. Since needing reading glasses I find more than 10 minutes a strain, so now I listen, and if I miss some I rewind it. They are brill but V pricey although without them I am sure I would not tackle nearly so many classics.

'A classic is a book everyone wants to have read, and nobody wants to read'. Mark Twain

I just read:

what was lost by Catherine O'Flynn


http://www.tindalstreet.co.uk/catalogue/item_detail.php?id=236

and it was really great. I loved it. laughed out loud. and it was very moving too.


and it was very funny about the crappy old consumer society that we all live in.



I also really loved Black Swan Green by David Mitchell. Brilliant 80s nostalgia and a lovely novel about growing up.

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