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What book are you currently reading?

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Nah I haven't seen the film, might check it out tonight, seems like it might be passable. Aronofsky did a decent job with Requiem for a Dream so I have some faith that Selby Jr can be translated to screen.
 
Evad said:
I haven't, which would you recommend?
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Start from the beginning eg A Firing Offense, the main reason being that his characters all inhabit the same universe so turn up in later books.Although you could read The Sweet Forever which is supposed to be what persuaded David Simon to work with him on The Wire.
 
I agree with brokenbrain. A lot of his books have common threads and characters, and some stories are linked.

The only wpine I didn't like is The Turnaround. Night Gardner is good, but I think the early ones are best.

Denis Lehane is another very good author, although I've never fancied Shutter Island. Gone Baby Gone is good (as is the film) and Drink Before The War is also very good.

For fans of these types of book I'd also recommend Run by Douglas E Winter which is an absolute stormer of a book.
 
Actually for George Pelecanos I read Shoedog first and have since found out it had some crossover characters.Then I got the 3 Nick Stefanos novels out the Library,really liked A firing offense,but found Nicks Trip to be uninspired,Meanwhile there is some serious forshadowing of The Wire in Down by the River where the dead men go re alcoholics seeking redemption in solving African american slayings. Then I read Hell to Pay and Soul Circus, followed by King Suckerman which is grade A....then The Sweet Forever. Recently got out the 2 described above, so the whole reading in the right order thing went out the window:\..as well as leaving 5 years between them.
I have since updated my library account to get them out in the right order this time including the brand new one. I have to admit that the turnaround is stangely written...as if there no emotion,like an autistics or something...perhaps I should lay off the class A drugs:|
 
Just got my old Susan Cooper books out my parents bedroom:
Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree
These 5 books along with Alan Garner :The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
The Moon of Gomrath
Elidor
changed my life in juniors.I never experienced depression until secondary school, because when ever I wasn't at school I had books to read and toys to play with and then came this huge rupture and I couldn't find any books I liked any more or any thing I liked playing with.....
Anyway it all adds up to the fact that my 3rd year in juniors eg 85 - 86 was the best year of my life.
So methadone, heroin, poppy pods and these Susan Cooper books and maybe Alan Garners from the Library = Full blast escapism:\:|:D8)
 
Shambles said:
I had those, BB. Remember being very fond of them but am buggered if I can remember what they are about.
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Well I've got em out to take home but I'm not sure if they won't be too childish.
I do remember and now having checked on wiki that the first over sea, under stone is a lead in and much less of a headfuck than the dark is rising.
I just read a random paragraph in that and it looks like an acid trip.....
the first one is 65 and the 2nd is 72 and I'm wondering is mrs cooper didn't hit de erb and lucy and maybe the shrooms in between times...in fact I'm hedging my bets that she did.
While we're all sitting comfortably then perhaps you should read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_Service if you're near aberystwyth and you have some mushrooms about.....or feel like introducing your arse to 2c-p!
 
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Fucking 1960 British Cars for the lose....you think they could make Glasgow in under 10 hours back then?Like fuck....about 40 mph those old cunts!
Ursula Le Guin Earthsea is like these books but for some reason I couldn't get into them,probably as they weren't set in wales and I was also on holiday near aberystwyth so it all made sense:D
Fuck now I have to go to Harlech,break out the brown and opium pods, get into the tent and read these fuckers to pretend I'm 10 again...
 
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Very interesting.

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This ones not as interesting. :)
 
How?
How can you read that 2nd book?
I am w r o n g and s l o w and John C Lilly was a bit of a K head, and not entirely with the general populace in reality terms.....
 
brokenbrain said:
How?
How can you read that 2nd book?
I am w r o n g and s l o w and John C Lilly was a bit of a K head, and not entirely with the general populace in reality terms.....
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The 2nd book is more of a reference text for work, its actually 4 books, and 4700 pages!!!, but it cost me nearly £200 , so I will now force myself to read it for principle.

Thank god I took that speed reading course <3

Nowt wrong with not being with the "general populace" IMO, served me very well so far :D
 
I think someone should have examined Mr Lillys bladder at some point to see if this nor-ketamine malarkey was fucking him up in more than the talking dolphin way.
In other Lilly related news - I have always wanted one of those sensory deprivation tanks.
I am reading Drama City by George Pelecanos who we have discussed earlier in the thread.I am also reading Over sea, under stone as discussed above....but am finding it a tad Enid Blytonish...which its sequels aren't. I see what she was doing though, as it explains how I went from reading about secret 7's and famous 5's eating mothers homebaked tarts whilst escaping those jolly nasty smugglers into reading the hobbit in a few years space.
 
Crime & Punishment...and The Wordsworth Dictionary Of Mythology

- Crime & Punishment I'm enjoying but have had a break for a few weeks due to doing loads of art while I was reading before...
 
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I signed this guy up last week and he gave me a copy of his book. Just started this minute, will let you know if its any good.
 
I just re-read Crashed and Byrned - The story of the greatest racing driver you never saw by Tommy Byrne and a helper.

It's an amazing, crazy, story.

Review:
Or, to give it it’s full title: “Crashed and Byrned: The greatest racing driver you never saw”. The blurb on the back hails Tommy Byrne as “the only racing driver the great Ayrton Senna really feared.”

Even if you know Byrne’s career you might not agree with the claim, but I’d be amazed if you didn’t enjoy this book.

After the first dozen pages you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d picked up a copy of ”Trainspotting” by mistake. I can’t think of any other books about motor racing that had as many references to loss of bowel control by page 20.

The narrative feels like it’s coming straight from Byrne’s mouth, which of course is as it should be. Co-writer Mark Hughes (long-time F1 scribe, Autosport contributor, and author of several other F1 books) wisely steps back for the most part and brings Byrne’s story to the printed page with little interruption.

The book is rich with amusing and entertaining stories from Byrne’s rise through the junior categories of motor racing in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He had an utterly unlikely background for a racing driver, hailing from Dundalk in Ireland, with little money by anyone’s standards, never mind those of someone who wants to race cars for a living.

Without wishing to spoil too much of the story for those who aren’t familiar with Byrne’s career, it will come as no surprise to learn that he didn’t make it to the top, although he did make a few F1 starts for Theodore. But his experiences after F1 were just as incredible as those he had while starting out in Dundalk.

After a stint racing in America for a millionaire manic depressive who was convinced he was going to become president (no, I’m not making this up), Byrne moved on to Mexico. Having developed a drug habit, he wound up racing F3 cars for a gun-crazed alcoholic who celebrated Byrne’s victories by arranging orgies…

You get the idea. It’s a remarkable, colourful, at times scarcely believable tale which unravels at a breakneck pace.

My only complaint is that the racing side of his escapades are pushed to one side in places, and it’s hard to get a grip on exactly what made his such a remarkable driver. The book runs to a mere 200 pages and I’d happily have read a hundred more filling the details of some of his starts and finishes.

It’s also – and this is something I’ve never thought a book was lacking before – crying out for a section in the middle with a few photographs so you can put faces to names.

If you want to find out more about Tommy Byrne, have a look at this thread in the Autosport Nostalgia Forum. And of course, you must buy this book.
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http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/09/23/crashed-and-byrned-tommy-byrne-with-mark-hughes-2008/
 
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