Books

[Carnage]

If you still have it, the chapters about the albums are worth a read. Otherwise I'd leave it.

[Mooncat]

Miles Davis's bio

Such a fun read. He's so blunt with the way he talks that it's really engaging. The style is very informal, like he's just talking to you over a drink at a bar, and it's a refreshing read because it's so direct, including all the vulgarities of the ways you'd talk to your mates in private  Particularly given you'd rarely read a bio like this anymore since everyone is careful with what they say now. Full of good stories though and well worth a read if you're into jazz.

Two recommendations for you, Mooncat;

• "As Serious As Your Life" by Val Wilmer (not a typo) from the mid 1970s.

• "Three Shades Of Blue" by James Kaplan from last year.

Thanks for the recs! I'll look those up.

I picked up the new Irvine Welsh, Men in Love, which is a direct follow up to Trainspotting. High hopes.

Def interested to hear what you think, I've been eyeing this one up too.


Just picked up a book called The Light at the End, which is supposedly the first splatterpunk novel. Set in New York in 1984 (it was written in the 80s too) about a vampire. Should be a good Halloween season read. I've only read the first chapter, but it was really good! And very of its time and place, which I was hoping for.

[Eoin McLove]

Finished up Men In Love. Entertaining but a lot lighter than Trainspotting et al. Fun, but not essential.

I picked up Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq today, knowing none of his earlier work. I've also started tipping through Enduring Love by Ian McEwan for the third time (maybe fourth?) so I'll bounce between those two for the next while.

[Maggot Colony]

Reading The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James 👻

[Carnage]

I'm about halfway through that, one I pick up now and then as a palate cleanser.

[blessed1]

I'm re-reading some Anne Rice books. On Queen Of The Damned now. Thought it wouldn't really hold up since I read it when I was younger but it's still just as good. There's a serious amount of depth and atmosphere to it. Some parts come off like historical fiction it's so well written.

[Thorn]

Getting on much better with the sequel to Wolf Hall than then the original, flying through it.

[nukeabuse]

The Exorcist. Genuinely a good read, assumed it would be pulpy. But was quiet literary, some absolutely beautiful lines yet one of the few horrors ive read that made me feel errie.

[open face surgery]

Ya, it's class.

[Eoin McLove]

Must give it a go some time.

[blessed1]

Ya The Exorcist is great. If you liked that I would recommend a book called Naomi's Room. It's one of the few books to genuinely creep me out and is quite short too and really well written. Author is from northern Ireland too.

[Don Gately]

The sound and the fury by William Faulkner, round 2 with this beast it won't defeat me again

[Carnage]

Just started Faith, Hope And Carnage by Nick Cave and Seán O'Hagan. An extended interview/conversation between the two, coming not long afteŕ covid, the death of Cave's son, Ghosteen, etc. Been looking forward to this one for a while.

[OpenSores]

Just started it myself, it's very good thus far.

[Eoin McLove]

The sound and the fury by William Faulkner, round 2 with this beast it won't defeat me again

I hated that when I read it before and it took me far too long to register the structure, which was so blatantly obvious once the penny dropped. I would have had to go back to the start and begin again but I was so fucking fed up of it that I didn't care who was who and what was happening by that point  probably one I should revisit at some point with that little extra bit of knowledge. "But really... maybe not...