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Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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About one fourth in.Like nearly of of his work, a great great read.
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Kim Gordon - Girl in a Band
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A posthumous collection of otherwise uncollected short fiction, including some juvenilia. The better stuff doesn't disappoint and the rest is harmless and very brief.
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Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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This is great. Interviews with original Life Magazine photographers who worked there in the early days when it was still a weekly. Incredibly, most of them make it sound like they just fell into the job by sheer luck. Some great anecdotes, though.
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kewl klive wrote:
Watched it tonight - loved it! Those old photos of Didion are fantastic.
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Just finished this audio. Remember that Tom Hanks movie about the guy who was stuck in the airport? This is about a gentleman, a real gentleman, a model of civility, stuck for almost his whole life in the Metropole Hotel in Moscow.
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Laundry room score. Looking forward to spending some time with this.
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Started reading After Dark, a short novel by Haruki Murakami. So far, it's an interestingly modest mood piece, set in a single night, which I'm enjoying.
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It's hard to believe that Donna Tartt has only writen three novels.
She really is very good.
This is as good as the other two - better perhaps.
She really is very good.
This is as good as the other two - better perhaps.
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
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Rob Youngs brilliant telling of the story of Englands re-awakening interest in their lost folk heritage.
Good double CD set to go with it too.
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andymacandy wrote:
Rob Youngs brilliant telling of the story of Englands re-awakening interest in their lost folk heritage.
Good double CD set to go with it too.
I've got a lot of time for Rob Young, what with him being a former editor of The Wire and all, but I found that book very much a heavy slog. It didn't seem to delve that deep for me, I thought it ploughed a very staid course through the usual suspects. I only bought the comp a couple of weeks back though, and that is pretty good, to be fair.
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Based upon Chabon's introduction which was the free audio sample saying how this book is "really good" I couldn't resist. So far its a looting, raping and plundering adventure with a humane and empathetic set of characters.
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Jimbo wrote:
Based upon Chabon's introduction which was the free audio sample saying how this book is "really good" I couldn't resist. So far its a looting, raping and plundering adventure with a humane and empathetic set of characters.
It’s always best when the looters, rapists, and plunderers are humane
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Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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Jolly Christmas read
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Darkness_Fish wrote:andymacandy wrote:
Rob Youngs brilliant telling of the story of Englands re-awakening interest in their lost folk heritage.
Good double CD set to go with it too.
I've got a lot of time for Rob Young, what with him being a former editor of The Wire and all, but I found that book very much a heavy slog. It didn't seem to delve that deep for me, I thought it ploughed a very staid course through the usual suspects. I only bought the comp a couple of weeks back though, and that is pretty good, to be fair.
Deebank bought me this a few Christmases ago, it is a bit of a dense read but very interesting.
Didn't realize their was a comp to go with it I will put that on my amazon list
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Been getting universally positive recommendations on this for the past year or two, so here we go
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