Books

The_Red_Hope · 25th September 2008, 04:51

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Originally Posted by M'n'M

Just finished The Road, really enjoyed it.

Me too. Just finished it the other day. Absolutely terrific read. Found it tough getting into it initially, but I was completely hooked after a while. More Cormac McCarthy for me.

Reading 'A Confederacy of Dunces' now.

bazalini · 30th September 2008, 22:43

Picked up one of those books On Sunday and found it hard to put down.

The Contractors by John B Keane

Was referred to me by a friend. First Fiction book I have read in over a decade, but I am led to believe it is based on Fact. Keane being a Pub Landlord in Kerry Ireland, it is believed he created fictional characters based on real life Irishmen who went to London after the war to help regenertae London about the war.

Its an excellent read, and I recommend it to anyone who like old History and business.

Last 5 Books I have read just so as you know my taste in Books

Shackelton The Endurance
Bill Cullen - Penny Apples
Bill Cullen - Golden Apples
Alasitair Campbell - The Blair Years
John B Keane - The Contractors

Livvie · 30th September 2008, 22:53

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Originally Posted by bazalini

Bill Cullen - Penny Apples

I'm reading that one too!

esmufc07 · 30th September 2008, 22:54

Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer

Fascinating book so far, only read 12 pages!

bazalini · 30th September 2008, 22:56

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Originally Posted by Livvie

I'm reading that one too!

would you believe I got a signed copy waiting in Dublin for me with a message from Bill himself to me.

Will take a pic of what he said to me.

You'll like Golden apples after Livvie...

redspoony · 1st October 2008, 12:20

My copy of Manchester United The Biography by Jim White has just turned up. Tidy. Got it on the strength of what I read of it in this month's UWS. Looks excellent.

GazM · 1st October 2008, 14:28

I just bought

Ed Macy - Apache

Looks good

Eyepopper · 1st October 2008, 14:32

currently reading...

good read...

Jiggs'Hamstring · 1st October 2008, 14:42

I am re-reading The Big Sleep at the moment, I had forgotten how cool it is. How come popular literature these days is so often completely vacuous? Chandler wrote basically populist fiction, but it is so atmospheric and an awesome read

Livvie · 1st October 2008, 19:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by bazalini

would you believe I got a signed copy waiting in Dublin for me with a message from Bill himself to me.

Will take a pic of what he said to me.

You'll like Golden apples after Livvie...

I didn't know there was a sequel - I'll look out for that.

Don't forget to scan the message..would like to see that.

Wolfboy · 2nd October 2008, 00:31

I'm a reader of biographies and here are a couple of ones that are not obvious ones to read but I can totally recommend them both (in fact the first one is one of my favourite books)

1 Kinski Uncut - Klaus Kinski. Auto-biography of the eccentric German actor. Incredible read, a totally one sided account of his life; to the point where you can't believe the things that he is telling you and it becomes a book about the sanity of that strange man:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kinski-Uncut...2903543&sr=1-1

2 Harpo Speaks - Harpo Marx. Auto-biogrpahy of the famous comedian, it reads like a who's who of the early 20th century in the US. The people he knew and the things he was a part of could be said to have shaped the country. But above all, it's just great aecdotes of a different time:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harpo-Speaks...2903875&sr=1-2

Michael Jackson loves Dairylea · 12th October 2008, 10:23

Just got 'Duma Key' by Stephen King. Any good?

brad-dyrak · 17th October 2008, 22:32

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Originally Posted by The_Red_Hope

Me too. Just finished it the other day. Absolutely terrific read. Found it tough getting into it initially, but I was completely hooked after a while. More Cormac McCarthy for me.

Read that one a while back. Good read. Sparse style with clipped dialog still seems to cram in a hell of a lot of dread.

Just finished "No Country for Old Men" which was a cracker. He gets a lot done without saying so much. Very Hemingway.

brad-dyrak · 17th October 2008, 22:34

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Originally Posted by esmufc07

Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer

Fascinating book so far, only read 12 pages!

You're almost through then.

Good book.

pillory · 22nd October 2008, 15:31

I had just finished Infinite Jest when David Foster Wallace killed himself, and now I've developed an obsession with James Incadenza's filmography (found in the novel's notes), which I read several times a week. It makes me happy-sad.

"Immanent Domain" - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Cosgrove Watt, Judith Fukuoka-Hearn, Pam Heath, Pamel-Sue Vorrheis, Herbert G. Birch; 35 mm; 88 minutes; black and white w/ microphotography; sound. Three memory-neurons (Fukuoka-Hearn, Heath, Voorheis (w/ polyurethane costumes)) in the Inferior frontal gyrus of a man's (Watt's) brain fight heroically to prevent their displacement by new memory-neurons as the man undergoes intense psychoanalysis. CELLULOID; INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE RE-RELEASE #340-03-70 (Y.P.W.)

"Valuable Coupon Has Been Removed" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill, Dianne Saltoone; 16 mm; 52 minutes; color; silent. Possible Scandinavian psychodrama parody, a boy helps his alcoholic-delusional father and disassociated mother dismantle their bed to search for rodents, and later he intuits the future feasibility of D.T.-cycle lithiumized annular fusion. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)

"As Of Yore" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Marlon Bain; 16/78 mm; 181 minutes; black and white/color; sound. A middle-aged tennis instructor, preparing to instruct his son in tennis, becomes intoxicated in the family's garage and subjects his son to a rambling monologue while the son weeps and perspires. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #357-16-09

"Safe Boating Is No Accident" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (?) Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited/X-Ray and Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield, MA. Ken N. Johnson, 'Madame Psychosis', P.A. Heaven. Kierkegaard/Lynch (?) parody, a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancee's ('Psychosis's') face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator with a defrocked Trappist monk, two overcombed missionaries for the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, an enigmatic fitness guru, the Massachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety, and seven severely intoxicated opticians with silly hats and exploding cigars. Listed by some archivists as completed the following year, Y.T.-S.D.B. UNRELEASED

"Dial C For Concupiscence" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Soma Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne, Marla-Dean Chumm, Ibn-Said Chawaf, Yves Francouer; 35 mm; 122 minutes; black and white; silent w/ subtitles. Parodic noir-style tribute to Bresson's Les Anges du Peche', a cellular phone operator (Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne), mistaken by a Quebecois terrorist (Francouer) for another cellular phone operator (Chumm) the FLQ had mistakenly tried to assassinate, mistakes his mistaken attempts to apologize as attempts to assassinate her (Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne) and flees to a bizarre Islamic religious community whose members communicate with each other by means of semaphore flags, where she falls in love with an armless Near Eastern medical attache' (Chawaf). RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT'S 'HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN' UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B. - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #357-75-43

"Insubstantial Country" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt; 16 mm; 30 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute. PRIVATE CARTRIDGE RELEASE BY POOR YORICK ENTERTAINMENT UNLIMITED

"The Film Adaptation Of Peter Weiss's 'The Persecution And Assassination Of Marat As Performed By The Inmates Of The Asylum At Charenton Under The Direction Of The Marquis de Sade'" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. James O. Incadenza, Disney Leith, Urquhart Ogilvie Jr., Jane Ann Prickett, Herbert G. Birch, 'Madame Psychosis', Marla-Dean Chumm, Marlon Bain, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf, Ken N. Johnson, Dianne Saltoone; Super-8 mm; 88 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. Fictional 'interactive documentary' on Boston stage production of Weiss's 20th-century play within play, in which the documentary's chemically impaired director (Incadenza) repeatedly interupts the inmates' dumbshow-capering and Marat and Sade's dialogues to discourse incoherently on the implications of Brando's Method Acting and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty for North American filmed entertainment, irritating the actor who plays Marat (Leith) to such an extent that he has a cerebral hemorrhage and collapses onstage well before Marat's scripted death, whereupon the play's nearsighted director (Ogilvie), mistaking the actor who plays Sade (Johnson) for Incadenza, throws Sade into Marat's medicinal bath and throttles him to death, whereupon the extra-dramatic figure of Death ('Psychosis') descends deus ex machina to bear Marat (Leith) and Sade (Johnson) away, while Incadenza becomes ill all over the theater audience's first row. 8 MM SYNC-PROJECTION CELLULOID. UNRELEASED DUE TO LITIGATION, HOSPITALIZATION

M'n'M · 24th October 2008, 11:39

Anyone read Lawrence Block? I've just finished Birdsong by Sebastien Faulkes and I've narrowed down the selection for my next book to 4.

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (read it years ago but loved it)
and one by Lawrence Block who I have never read but have heard some good things about.

What would you do?

spinoza · 2nd November 2008, 11:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by pillory

I had just finished Infinite Jest when David Foster Wallace killed himself, and now I've developed an obsession with James Incadenza's filmography (found in the novel's notes), which I read several times a week. It makes me happy-sad.

"Immanent Domain" - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Cosgrove Watt, Judith Fukuoka-Hearn, Pam Heath, Pamel-Sue Vorrheis, Herbert G. Birch; 35 mm; 88 minutes; black and white w/ microphotography; sound. Three memory-neurons (Fukuoka-Hearn, Heath, Voorheis (w/ polyurethane costumes)) in the Inferior frontal gyrus of a man's (Watt's) brain fight heroically to prevent their displacement by new memory-neurons as the man undergoes intense psychoanalysis. CELLULOID; INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE RE-RELEASE #340-03-70 (Y.P.W.)

"Valuable Coupon Has Been Removed" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill, Dianne Saltoone; 16 mm; 52 minutes; color; silent. Possible Scandinavian psychodrama parody, a boy helps his alcoholic-delusional father and disassociated mother dismantle their bed to search for rodents, and later he intuits the future feasibility of D.T.-cycle lithiumized annular fusion. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED)

"As Of Yore" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Marlon Bain; 16/78 mm; 181 minutes; black and white/color; sound. A middle-aged tennis instructor, preparing to instruct his son in tennis, becomes intoxicated in the family's garage and subjects his son to a rambling monologue while the son weeps and perspires. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #357-16-09

"Safe Boating Is No Accident" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (?) Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited/X-Ray and Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield, MA. Ken N. Johnson, 'Madame Psychosis', P.A. Heaven. Kierkegaard/Lynch (?) parody, a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancee's ('Psychosis's') face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator with a defrocked Trappist monk, two overcombed missionaries for the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, an enigmatic fitness guru, the Massachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety, and seven severely intoxicated opticians with silly hats and exploding cigars. Listed by some archivists as completed the following year, Y.T.-S.D.B. UNRELEASED

"Dial C For Concupiscence" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Soma Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne, Marla-Dean Chumm, Ibn-Said Chawaf, Yves Francouer; 35 mm; 122 minutes; black and white; silent w/ subtitles. Parodic noir-style tribute to Bresson's Les Anges du Peche', a cellular phone operator (Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne), mistaken by a Quebecois terrorist (Francouer) for another cellular phone operator (Chumm) the FLQ had mistakenly tried to assassinate, mistakes his mistaken attempts to apologize as attempts to assassinate her (Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne) and flees to a bizarre Islamic religious community whose members communicate with each other by means of semaphore flags, where she falls in love with an armless Near Eastern medical attache' (Chawaf). RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT'S 'HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN' UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B. - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #357-75-43

"Insubstantial Country" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt; 16 mm; 30 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute. PRIVATE CARTRIDGE RELEASE BY POOR YORICK ENTERTAINMENT UNLIMITED

"The Film Adaptation Of Peter Weiss's 'The Persecution And Assassination Of Marat As Performed By The Inmates Of The Asylum At Charenton Under The Direction Of The Marquis de Sade'" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. James O. Incadenza, Disney Leith, Urquhart Ogilvie Jr., Jane Ann Prickett, Herbert G. Birch, 'Madame Psychosis', Marla-Dean Chumm, Marlon Bain, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf, Ken N. Johnson, Dianne Saltoone; Super-8 mm; 88 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. Fictional 'interactive documentary' on Boston stage production of Weiss's 20th-century play within play, in which the documentary's chemically impaired director (Incadenza) repeatedly interupts the inmates' dumbshow-capering and Marat and Sade's dialogues to discourse incoherently on the implications of Brando's Method Acting and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty for North American filmed entertainment, irritating the actor who plays Marat (Leith) to such an extent that he has a cerebral hemorrhage and collapses onstage well before Marat's scripted death, whereupon the play's nearsighted director (Ogilvie), mistaking the actor who plays Sade (Johnson) for Incadenza, throws Sade into Marat's medicinal bath and throttles him to death, whereupon the extra-dramatic figure of Death ('Psychosis') descends deus ex machina to bear Marat (Leith) and Sade (Johnson) away, while Incadenza becomes ill all over the theater audience's first row. 8 MM SYNC-PROJECTION CELLULOID. UNRELEASED DUE TO LITIGATION, HOSPITALIZATION

It was surreal.

The_Red_Hope · 5th November 2008, 11:57

The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay.

Great so far. Had heard so many good things about this that I jumped this to the top of my read-list when I found a copy at a used book store.

SiYuan · 6th November 2008, 01:57

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Originally Posted by M'n'M

Anyone read Lawrence Block? I've just finished Birdsong by Sebastien Faulkes and I've narrowed down the selection for my next book to 4.

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (read it years ago but loved it)
and one by Lawrence Block who I have never read but have heard some good things about.

What would you do?

cesc's_mullet · 6th November 2008, 04:22

Has anyone else here read the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan?

Am seven books in ATM, but think I'm going to take a briend siesta to read Nagash the Sorcerer - a Warhammer book.

The_Red_Hope · 6th November 2008, 10:14

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Originally Posted by cesc's_mullet

Has anyone else here read the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan?

Am seven books in ATM, but think I'm going to take a briend siesta to read Nagash the Sorcerer - a Warhammer book.

Yeah, I've read all eleven. Its all downhill from seven onwards. I had such a tough time keeping track of the million characters that he kept introducing with every new book, but by then I had invested so much time and energy into the books that I stuck to it.

Melbourne Red · 6th November 2008, 12:25

Which is Irvine Welsh's best book?

I found Trainspotting unreadable and gave up after 20 pages. Are his other books written in normal prose?

A title and a brief synopsis please, ta.

peterstorey · 6th November 2008, 12:29

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Originally Posted by Melbourne Red

Which is Irvine Welsh's best book?

I found Trainspotting unreadable and gave up after 20 pages. Are his other books written in normal prose?

A title and a brief synopsis please, ta.

Trainspotting is the only one that's worth reading (and it falls apart a bit towards the end).

cesc's_mullet · 6th November 2008, 13:10

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Originally Posted by The_Red_Hope

Yeah, I've read all eleven. Its all downhill from seven onwards. I had such a tough time keeping track of the million characters that he kept introducing with every new book, but by then I had invested so much time and energy into the books that I stuck to it.

Yeah my dad said the exact same thing too, this annoys me 'cos I've rather loved it so far but it is getting to the stage where it's getting a tad tedious.

brad-dyrak · 7th November 2008, 01:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by M'n'M

Anyone read Lawrence Block? I've just finished Birdsong by Sebastien Faulkes and I've narrowed down the selection for my next book to 4.

To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (read it years ago but loved it)
and one by Lawrence Block who I have never read but have heard some good things about.

What would you do?

Whether you do it now or later, before you die be sure to read "To Kill a Mockingbird". Lovely book from another time.

The_Red_Hope · 7th November 2008, 06:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by cesc's_mullet

Yeah my dad said the exact same thing too, this annoys me 'cos I've rather loved it so far but it is getting to the stage where it's getting a tad tedious.

Cesc ... I strongly recommend 'Lions of Al-Rassan' to you. It will be a great change from reading WoT. Much fewer and more interesting characters, more political intrigue, mild philosophy, commentary on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Its more historical fantasy(Spanish Conquest) than mainstream fantasy .... no magic, but nonetheless fascinating stuff.

SiYuan · 9th November 2008, 20:47

The Tristan Betrayal, by Robert Lungdum?

Fantastic book that, offers a very convincing WW2 plot and espionage.

Twist expected, but still brings a sniff.

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bazalini Join Date: May 2000 Location: President of The Bring Back "Charlie Devils, Neil Thomson & Clayton Blackmore" Fan Clubs Posts: 16,698	Picked up one of those books On Sunday and found it hard to put down. The Contractors by John B Keane Was referred to me by a friend. First Fiction book I have read in over a decade, but I am led to believe it is based on Fact. Keane being a Pub Landlord in Kerry Ireland, it is believed he created fictional characters based on real life Irishmen who went to London after the war to help regenertae London about the war. Its an excellent read, and I recommend it to anyone who like old History and business. Last 5 Books I have read just so as you know my taste in Books Shackelton The Endurance Bill Cullen - Penny Apples Bill Cullen - Golden Apples Alasitair Campbell - The Blair Years John B Keane - The Contractors

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esmufc07 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cobra on my left; Leopard on my right! Posts: 192	Inside the Third Reich - Albert Speer Fascinating book so far, only read 12 pages!

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redspoony Reserve Team Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: "My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that" - Sir Alex Ferguson Posts: 1,818	My copy of Manchester United The Biography by Jim White has just turned up. Tidy. Got it on the strength of what I read of it in this month's UWS. Looks excellent.

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GazM Reserve Team Player Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Cheeses Dried Foyer Shins. Praise the Lard Posts: 4,387	I just bought Ed Macy - Apache Looks good

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Eyepopper First Team Regular Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lowering the Tone since 2006 Posts: 16,967	currently reading... good read...

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Jiggs'Hamstring Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: right up next to Sky Valley Posts: 673	I am re-reading The Big Sleep at the moment, I had forgotten how cool it is. How come popular literature these days is so often completely vacuous? Chandler wrote basically populist fiction, but it is so atmospheric and an awesome read

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Wolfboy No relation to Wolf Man Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: I work for myself now, no boss here, it's my company. I bet I still get made redundant. Posts: 3,484	I'm a reader of biographies and here are a couple of ones that are not obvious ones to read but I can totally recommend them both (in fact the first one is one of my favourite books) 1 Kinski Uncut - Klaus Kinski. Auto-biography of the eccentric German actor. Incredible read, a totally one sided account of his life; to the point where you can't believe the things that he is telling you and it becomes a book about the sanity of that strange man: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kinski-Uncut...2903543&sr=1-1 2 Harpo Speaks - Harpo Marx. Auto-biogrpahy of the famous comedian, it reads like a who's who of the early 20th century in the US. The people he knew and the things he was a part of could be said to have shaped the country. But above all, it's just great aecdotes of a different time: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Harpo-Speaks...2903875&sr=1-2

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Michael Jackson loves Dairylea Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Trying to sign Berbatov Posts: 851	Just got 'Duma Key' by Stephen King. Any good?

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pillory Reserve Team Player Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Tyburn Posts: 1,315	I had just finished Infinite Jest when David Foster Wallace killed himself, and now I've developed an obsession with James Incadenza's filmography (found in the novel's notes), which I read several times a week. It makes me happy-sad. "Immanent Domain" - B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions. Cosgrove Watt, Judith Fukuoka-Hearn, Pam Heath, Pamel-Sue Vorrheis, Herbert G. Birch; 35 mm; 88 minutes; black and white w/ microphotography; sound. Three memory-neurons (Fukuoka-Hearn, Heath, Voorheis (w/ polyurethane costumes)) in the Inferior frontal gyrus of a man's (Watt's) brain fight heroically to prevent their displacement by new memory-neurons as the man undergoes intense psychoanalysis. CELLULOID; INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE RE-RELEASE #340-03-70 (Y.P.W.) "Valuable Coupon Has Been Removed" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Phillip T. Smothergill, Dianne Saltoone; 16 mm; 52 minutes; color; silent. Possible Scandinavian psychodrama parody, a boy helps his alcoholic-delusional father and disassociated mother dismantle their bed to search for rodents, and later he intuits the future feasibility of D.T.-cycle lithiumized annular fusion. CELLULOID (UNRELEASED) "As Of Yore" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt, Marlon Bain; 16/78 mm; 181 minutes; black and white/color; sound. A middle-aged tennis instructor, preparing to instruct his son in tennis, becomes intoxicated in the family's garage and subjects his son to a rambling monologue while the son weeps and perspires. INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #357-16-09 "Safe Boating Is No Accident" - Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad (?) Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited/X-Ray and Infrared Photography by Shuco-Mist Medical Pressure Systems, Enfield, MA. Ken N. Johnson, 'Madame Psychosis', P.A. Heaven. Kierkegaard/Lynch (?) parody, a claustrophobic water-ski instructor (Johnson), struggling with his romantic conscience after his fiancee's ('Psychosis's') face is grotesquely mangled by an outboard propeller, becomes trapped in an overcrowded hospital elevator with a defrocked Trappist monk, two overcombed missionaries for the Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, an enigmatic fitness guru, the Massachusetts State Commissioner for Beach and Water Safety, and seven severely intoxicated opticians with silly hats and exploding cigars. Listed by some archivists as completed the following year, Y.T.-S.D.B. UNRELEASED "Dial C For Concupiscence" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Soma Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne, Marla-Dean Chumm, Ibn-Said Chawaf, Yves Francouer; 35 mm; 122 minutes; black and white; silent w/ subtitles. Parodic noir-style tribute to Bresson's Les Anges du Peche', a cellular phone operator (Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne), mistaken by a Quebecois terrorist (Francouer) for another cellular phone operator (Chumm) the FLQ had mistakenly tried to assassinate, mistakes his mistaken attempts to apologize as attempts to assassinate her (Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne) and flees to a bizarre Islamic religious community whose members communicate with each other by means of semaphore flags, where she falls in love with an armless Near Eastern medical attache' (Chawaf). RELEASED IN INTERLACE TELENT'S 'HOWLS FROM THE MARGIN' UNDERGROUND FILM SERIES - MARCH/Y.T.-S.D.B. - AND INTERLACE TELENT CARTRIDGE #357-75-43 "Insubstantial Country" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. Cosgrove Watt; 16 mm; 30 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. An unpopular apres-garde filmmaker (Watt) either suffers a temporal lobe seizure and becomes mute or else is the victim of everyone else's delusion that his (Watt's) temporal lobe seizure has left him mute. PRIVATE CARTRIDGE RELEASE BY POOR YORICK ENTERTAINMENT UNLIMITED "The Film Adaptation Of Peter Weiss's 'The Persecution And Assassination Of Marat As Performed By The Inmates Of The Asylum At Charenton Under The Direction Of The Marquis de Sade'" - Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar. Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited. James O. Incadenza, Disney Leith, Urquhart Ogilvie Jr., Jane Ann Prickett, Herbert G. Birch, 'Madame Psychosis', Marla-Dean Chumm, Marlon Bain, Pam Heath, Soma Richardson-Levy-O'Byrne-Chawaf, Ken N. Johnson, Dianne Saltoone; Super-8 mm; 88 minutes; black and white; silent/sound. Fictional 'interactive documentary' on Boston stage production of Weiss's 20th-century play within play, in which the documentary's chemically impaired director (Incadenza) repeatedly interupts the inmates' dumbshow-capering and Marat and Sade's dialogues to discourse incoherently on the implications of Brando's Method Acting and Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty for North American filmed entertainment, irritating the actor who plays Marat (Leith) to such an extent that he has a cerebral hemorrhage and collapses onstage well before Marat's scripted death, whereupon the play's nearsighted director (Ogilvie), mistaking the actor who plays Sade (Johnson) for Incadenza, throws Sade into Marat's medicinal bath and throttles him to death, whereupon the extra-dramatic figure of Death ('Psychosis') descends deus ex machina to bear Marat (Leith) and Sade (Johnson) away, while Incadenza becomes ill all over the theater audience's first row. 8 MM SYNC-PROJECTION CELLULOID. UNRELEASED DUE TO LITIGATION, HOSPITALIZATION

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M'n'M More than a little nutty® Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 2,258	Anyone read Lawrence Block? I've just finished Birdsong by Sebastien Faulkes and I've narrowed down the selection for my next book to 4. To Kill A Mocking Bird - Harper Lee Band Of Brothers - Stephen Ambrose In Cold Blood - Truman Capote (read it years ago but loved it) and one by Lawrence Block who I have never read but have heard some good things about. What would you do?

5th November 2008, 11:57	#458 (permalink)
The_Red_Hope Reserve Team Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 718	The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay. Great so far. Had heard so many good things about this that I jumped this to the top of my read-list when I found a copy at a used book store.

6th November 2008, 04:22	#460 (permalink)
cesc's_mullet Get a haircut Hippy! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: i gotta do something important so people will respect me… like be a senator… or a wizard Posts: 9,717	Has anyone else here read the Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan? Am seven books in ATM, but think I'm going to take a briend siesta to read Nagash the Sorcerer - a Warhammer book.

6th November 2008, 12:25	#462 (permalink)
Melbourne Red Trannie Lover Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 7,081	Which is Irvine Welsh's best book? I found Trainspotting unreadable and gave up after 20 pages. Are his other books written in normal prose? A title and a brief synopsis please, ta.

9th November 2008, 20:47	#467 (permalink)
SiYuan Cafe Grandmaster 2008 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Where Crouch is a Midget. Posts: 6,915	The Tristan Betrayal, by Robert Lungdum? Fantastic book that, offers a very convincing WW2 plot and espionage. Twist expected, but still brings a sniff.