O/T Fit You Reading 3

[57vintage]

The contempt that Johnny Marr showed in his dismissal of Cameron, put me in mind of Simon Jones uprooting Michael Clarke in 2005

Cameron/Clarke Arseholes

Normally I would agree 100 per cent, but Pup more than redeemed himself with his speech at Philp Hughes?s funeral.

Balls.
Of.
Steel.

https://youtu.be/q4SKcrV2_RY?si=RGSJ-hEdQh-1Qi7J

[Jupiter]

To paraphrase Mark Nicholas as Steve Harmison?s brave slower ball flattened Pup?s stumps in the final over of day 4 at Edgbaston in 2005: ?Given the contributor, given the usual outlook, and given the subject, this is no real surprise?.

It wasn't just me, everybody hated it.

[57vintage]

It wasn't just me, everybody hated it.

That must have ****ed up your ****age philosophy of individualism that has continued into what looks like some sort of Josephite adulthood.

Thoughts and prayers.

[TheDeeDon]

We had to read Sunset Song at school. It was utter shiite.

To be fair, if I had read it at school, I wouldn't have liked it either.

However, assuming that you are an adult now, you should go back and reappraise it.

Although given your tendency towards right leaning politics and conpiracy theories, it may well still be lost on you.

Sunset Song is a thing of beauty.

If books aren't your thing, get on the BBC iPlayer for the 1970, TV adaptation.

If that doesn't move you, see a doctor.

[57vintage]

?His is more than a literary biography, then: it?s a history of the times.?
(History Of A Revoluter p32)

[TheDeeDon]

?His is more than a literary biography, then: it?s a history of the times.?
(History Of A Revoluter p32)

I'm assuming you've started the biography then?

[TheDeeDon]

Got some decent stuff from the Library yesterday.
Won't be getting next week, due to a prior engagement at Hampden Park, so should keep my going.

Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust.

John Lanchester - The Debt to Pleasure (I may have read this before).

Cormac McCarthy - The Orchard Keeper.

Hisham Matar - My Friends.

[57vintage]

I'm assuming you've started the biography then?

Yes! I?m still in the introduction and it?s magnificent. Bill explained in his talk at the launch that this time around - he has quite the canon behind him - that he wasn?t writing an academic treatise, but a labour of love biography, and by hooky, it jumps off the page.

Of course, at the sassidge roll and drinks reception, he and I talked about the Highland League (he?s a Rothes fan), and some obscure, already-forgotte match that had finished 1-5 the evening before, as well as a years-before-the-fanzine-boom idea we had (pints had been taken) for such a publication when he was doing his PhD, and our various mutual pals were feeding him.

His inscription in my copy reads ?Stay Red!? - he knows me too well.

[TheDeeDon]

Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust. - An excellent read. The boy could write.

John Lanchester - The Debt to Pleasure - No too bad a read.

Cormac McCarthy - The Orchard Keeper. - Started off brilliantly, but the middle part was poor. Ended not too badly


Have the Fire part of the John Boyle books. I honestly can't read the pages quick enough, which isn't great for a book with only 160 pages. No dip in quality from the previous two I have read in the series.
I'm awaiting the final part of this series of books (Air) to enter the Library, but I was able to reserve it, so hopefully not too long.

[57vintage]

Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust. - An excellent read. The boy could write.

John Lanchester - The Debt to Pleasure - No too bad a read.

Cormac McCarthy - The Orchard Keeper. - Started off brilliantly, but the middle part was poor. Ended not too badly


Have the Fire part of the John Boyle books. I honestly can't read the pages quick enough, which isn't great for a book with only 160 pages. No dip in quality from the previous two I have read in the series.
I'm awaiting the final part of this series of books (Air) to enter the Library, but I was able to reserve it, so hopefully not too long.

Both Boyle books are magnificent. The tie-ups between the four elements are genius.

I am unsure whether or not I’ve read any Waugh. I did start the war trilogy, but I somehow never got back to it. I think the nearest I have come to Waughing was watching Brideshead Revisited on telly 30-odd years ago, and buying the DVD box as soon as it was released. Must rectify.

I read Norah Webster by Colm Toibin, rated as his best book, but I think several of his other books are superior.

Bournville by Jonathan Coe was OK. Clever structure, good characters, but something didna chime with me. Probably the events which provide the structure. Royal wedding, royal funeral, VE Day, a coronation, the 1966 Jules Rimet final…

Canna remember if I reported in about Melvyn Bragg’s A Son Of War but it was very good - even if I did read a trilogy in 3-1-2 order.

Still reading - slowly and word by word - History of a Revoluter. Its detail is astonishing; I have a bookmark placed in the notes appendix which covers over 30 pages and gives brilliant insight into the forensic research Bill undertook over 40 year.

On the iPad I’m into Slum Boy by Juano Diaz - recommended to anyone who read and enjoyed Shuggie Bain. Splendid so far, and a true story that promises much.

Currently waiting for Spotify to give me my next 15 hour audiobook credit - and for the miserly bstds to put a copy of the new Beatles book by Stuart Maconie.