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Anyone given these a go:
Surely a made up name due to similarity to Lovecraft ?
2 for just over £6 on kindle and given a good review in the guardian end of year round up.
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2 for just over £6 on kindle and given a good review in the guardian end of year round up.
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Even given the memoirist's tendency toward self-aggrandizement, there's a lot to choke on here, despite it being basically the "official" version of F.Mac's history.
To be fair, he acknowledges his shortcomings as a drummer and as a husband and father while he revels in tales of his own excesses/successes. The whole thing is very Spinal Tap.
When Peter Green wants to give a portion of the band's earnings to charitable causes, Fleetwood, with childlike self-assurance, opines that LSD has warped Green's judgment.
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I’ve gotta read that one of these days!
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mentalist (slight return) wrote:Recently started Ferrante, really enjoying it so far.
That New Yorker tagline they are using does it no favours..."amiably peopled bildungsroman"?
That said I really do want to get down and read it - although I have a big chunk of books that were given to me as christmas presents to get through first.
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mentalist (slight return) wrote:Been getting universally positive recommendations on this for the past year or two, so here we go
I liked that a lot, best new novel I've read in a while.
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The translation is tiresome but helps with my woeful Latin efforts.
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I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp.
Beautiful boy.
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I looked at that in the my local bookstore a few days ago, and just thought "fuck this". And I say that as a fan of some of Auster's work.
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It's a bit of a monster, and no mistake. After suggesting it as a Christmas present, I realised I was basing all my opinion of Auster on The Book of Illusions, I didn't actually care that much for The New York Trilogy. Still, so far, just over a hundred pages in, it's a good read and an interesting concept. Just 900+ pages to go.
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Quite enjoying this. At times it gets a bit swamped in detail, but he certainly knows his stuff. Maybe lacking a bit in the kind of insights a Reynolds or Savage would've bought to the table, but overall very good so far.
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Such an unusual, interesting and often piercingly amusing book.
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Nick wrote:mentalist (slight return) wrote:Been getting universally positive recommendations on this for the past year or two, so here we go
I liked that a lot, best new novel I've read in a while.
It was great. I flew through it. A bit Moby Dick.
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mentalist (slight return) wrote:Nick wrote:mentalist (slight return) wrote:Been getting universally positive recommendations on this for the past year or two, so here we go
I liked that a lot, best new novel I've read in a while.
It was great. I flew through it. A bit Moby Dick.
Lot of flu going about
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The Tom Holland translation of Herodotus is well worth a go as well, and the Landmark edition is utterly fabulous (it has loads of maps).
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The Letters of William S Burroughs 1945-1959
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Very enjoyable.
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Toby wrote:
The translation is tiresome but helps with my woeful Latin efforts.
I have a few of those Loeb editions, including the Virgil. I suppose to be fair to the translators the facing-page translations are designed to serve as a crutch to readers who are Latin-enabled to a greater or lesser degree and are looking to understand/appreciate the original. But yes, in the case of Virgil the poetry doesn’t survive the crossing from the even-numbered to the odd-numbered pages. Every new page brings a fresh ferry disaster. Having said that I read the Loeb Apuleius (The Golden Ass) and although the syntax is much less gnarly than Virgil the Latin was still mostly beyond me and I ended up sticking to the English, and it was riotously funny in places. So someone was doing something right. Good luck with your Latin-learning!
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A very handsome edition: hardcover with heavy laminated paper, nice layout and illustrations and good text by one of the principals. Not life-changing, but a nice addition to the lore.
On edit: a lot of this book is taken up with accounts of the author's travels to NYC and California in the late 60s, where he arranges for and records spoken word sessions for the likes of Michael McClure, Charles Bukowski and Allen Ginsberg (along with support from jazz luminaries such as Mingus and Elvin Jones), ostensibly for the fledgling label under discussion. These activities only marginally have anything to do with The Beatles, but they're pretty interesting in their own right.
Much of the rest depicts the decline of Apple Records with the arrival of Allen Klein, which is handled in substantially more detail in Richard DeLillo's The Longest Cocktail Party.
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