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Post Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:41 pm

Shaz wrote:Glad you enjoyed the book, Firehazard. I reckon it was my book of the year. Still can't get into Peace's crime fic, though.


Thanks, Shaz. It's the first David Peace book I've read... I'd been wondering about what his other books would be like.
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Post Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:43 pm

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Shaz wrote:Glad you enjoyed the book, Firehazard. I reckon it was my book of the year. Still can't get into Peace's crime fic, though.


Thanks, Shaz. It's the first David Peace book I've read... I'd been wondering about what his other books would be like.


He's done a sequence of crime fiction novels named after years. I like bleak, noir stuff, but I found the one and a half I've read a real drag. Whereas The Damned United was very tightly structured, the crime novels have short almost random scenes. And none of the characters are particularly sympathetic -- which isn't a problem necessarily, I hasten to add (ref. Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, for instance), but Peace didn't make me care enough to read on.
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Post Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:52 pm

I am reading Paul McGrath's book with increasing astonishment. Quite amazing and well worth a look even for non-football fans. I will say this though it has altered forever my opinion of Graham Taylor, a quite fantastic human being.
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Post Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:56 pm

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Post Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:07 pm

Here's one to watch out for, due to be published April 2007:

"Medusa": The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece
by Jonathan Miles

The story behind it all...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Medusa-Shipwrec ... F8&s=books
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Post Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:15 pm

DaveG wrote:I am reading Paul McGrath's book with increasing astonishment. Quite amazing and well worth a look even for non-football fans. I will say this though it has altered forever my opinion of Graham Taylor, a quite fantastic human being.


I have started paul's book but had to leave it upon getting the Pogues book for christmas. I am not that far into it but it is an astonishing story. I knew a lot of it already but this book goes into far greater detail.
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Post Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:11 pm

firehazard wrote:Here's one to watch out for, due to be published April 2007:
"Medusa": The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece
by Jonathan Miles

The story behind it all...

Finally the story can be told. The rise to fame, the fights, the drugs, and the eventual sinking.

I want everyone to know that I fully cooperated with this effort. I hope nothing I said in the interviews is used out of context.
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Post Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:17 pm

DzM wrote:I want everyone to know that I fully cooperated with this effort. I hope nothing I said in the interviews is used out of context.


I hope your lawyers are fully briefed, DzM.
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Post Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:54 pm

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DzM wrote:I want everyone to know that I fully cooperated with this effort. I hope nothing I said in the interviews is used out of context.

I hope your lawyers are fully briefed, DzM.

For the holidays I bought them all fresh packets of Y-fronts. They are fully (and freshly) briefed.
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Post Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:15 pm

firehazard wrote:Here's one to watch out for, due to be published April 2007:

"Medusa": The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece
by Jonathan Miles

The story behind it all...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Medusa-Shipwrec ... F8&s=books


Thanks Firehazard, that is a must have, next time I'm on Amazon I shall pre-order it. 8)
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Post Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:07 pm

1001 Films you must see before you die (In swedish: 1001 filmer du måste se innan du dör).

Pelle Lindbergh: behind the white mask a book that tells the story of one of NHL's best goalies through the years. He died in a carcrash 1985.

Jimi Hendrix: Inside the experience by Mich Mithell (the drummer in Hendrix band)
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Post Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:21 pm

celticjunk wrote:1001 Films you must see before you die (In swedish: 1001 filmer du måste se innan du dör).

Pelle Lindbergh: behind the white mask a book that tells the story of one of NHL's best goalies through the years. He died in a carcrash 1985.

Jimi Hendrix: Inside the experience by Mich Mithell (the drummer in Hendrix band)


Is 1001 films... any good?? tought of that one.

Just read a few pages from the Pelle Lindbergh book, is it the reporter from Aftonbladet who has written it????? Thomas Tynander???? is it any good???

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My niece had to write a theatre report on any play ever staged, and NO EXIT or Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? were my top picks for her.I'm just happy to have anything to add to the conversation. As she got a 770 on her literature SAT's and seems to be humoring me during most discussions.
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