Summer Transfer Window (Stephen Glass’ first)

[Bisconti's balls]

Because I got his first name wrong? You strange fish!

[NaeMairNeeps]

Yaaaaaaassssss!!! Ramirez ... 4-1

[NaeMairNeeps]

Yaaaaaaaaasssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss! 5-1 .... McLennan!

[NaeMairNeeps]

Yaassss!!! Ferguson! fkn beauty!!!

[Don Julio]

Neeps, min, yer on the wrong thread!

[NaeMairNeeps]

Neeps, min, yer on the wrong thread!

Oh ... ****e ... so A am!

[57vintage]

I'm exactly the same 57, this is my third attempt at Toole's only book to see if I really was missing something the first 2 times and its another "nah". Its like the Charterhouse of Parma for me, the worst 'great' book I've attempted.

Ray Celestin, now you're talking! Cracking reads.

I get booed for agreeing with Truman Capote’s “that’s not writing, it’s typing” appraisal of On The Road, and can’t get on with The Great Gatsby either. One Hundred Years Of Solitude was sent to the Shelter shop after I junked it after slogging through about 50% of its repetitive ‘magic realism’. **** off, give me Sillitoe, Braine, Bairstow, Hardy, Dickens, Lawrence, Gaskell, new kid on the block John Clarke, and a hunner others wired into Proper Mannies’ (and other genders’) lives and challenges.

There is no finer fitba fiction than Robin Jenkins’s The Thistle And The Grail (especially the edition with the Johnny Hewitt Ullevi cover). Discuss analytically, citing and referencing accurately your sources.

[The Red Max]

I get booed for agreeing with Truman Capote’s “that’s not writing, it’s typing” appraisal of On The Road, and can’t get on with The Great Gatsby either. One Hundred Years Of Solitude was sent to the Shelter shop after I junked it after slogging through about 50% of its repetitive ‘magic realism’. **** off, give me Sillitoe, Braine, Bairstow, Hardy, Dickens, Lawrence, Gaskell, new kid on the block John Clarke, and a hunner others wired into Proper Mannies’ (and other genders’) lives and challenges.

There is no finer fitba fiction than Robin Jenkins’s The Thistle And The Grail (especially the edition with the Johnny Hewitt Ullevi cover). Discuss analytically, citing and referencing accurately your sources.

Pretty much on board with you 100% there, comrade, although I do like Gatsby for my sins.

[57vintage]

Fitba novel update: the latest issue of the readable (ie no crusty dusty academics involved to stoke their own egoes as they do in TLS, London Review, New York Review) book mag Strong Words, a one-man effort by the great Ed Needham, has just landed. It’s my favourite mag now that Word is no more.

Duncan Hamilton’s Injury Time gets a double page spread “A former Nottingham sports reporter has used decades of experience of professional football to craft a story of a disenchanted old local hero returning as manager in an eleventh hour attempt to defy relegation”.

Ed likes it a lot, and there’s a pawky interview with Hamilton including:
“You mention unsavoury uses for the FA Cup - are you aware of it serving other than purely decorative purposes?”
“Yes, I am”.

I’ll give it a go.

Strong Words sub:
www.webscribe.co.uk/magazine/strongwords
Tel: 01442 820580

[57vintage]

I thought I’d give FS Fitzo another shottie a couple of weeks ago since it must be 30+ years since I read it, and I wondered if I’d missed anything.

Canna find it. It must have been a victim of The Great Cultural Cull of 2017 when three cartons of books and 400 CDs (mostly review stuff that I’ll never listen to again) re-stocked Shelter’s shelves in its Union Street shop. Meh.