Books

[Eoin McLove]

Shellenberger isn't going against science, by the sounds of it, but certainly against the popular narrative.

[StoutAndAle]

Bob Spitz's brand new Led Zeppelin biography. Read it over the course of last weekend. It's fairly shite. There's huge chunks taken from other LZ books and Spitz must not have access to the internet judging by the amount of facts that he gets completely wrong - names, dates etc.

Also and possibly most annoyingly - Spitz never listened to Zep in his life before deciding to write the book.

[Eoin McLove]

  legend.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haha, I'll be giving that a miss so! Richard Cole's one was fairly shite too.

[Carnage]

Are there any decent Led Zep biographies out there? Hammer Of The Gods seems to be the standard but I'm told it's full of inaccuracies...

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It probably is, but it's a great/must read.

Edit: Also, don't know about a general release date yet, but just to remind that the first ever official documentary is on its way.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10365912/

[Necro Red]

Sure I've mentioned this before but I met Irvine Welsh in a mate's gaff before. He was buying coke off his housemate. Got a pic with him anyway. haha.

Ha ha ha. No way! He lives in Dublin so?

[Caomhaoin]

He was living there, pretty sure he's stateside these days.

[StoutAndAle]

It probably is, but it's a great/must read.

"Hammer Of The Gods" is a decent read - but it's probably more myth-making than anything else. Steven Davis repeatedly stated "If it wasn't true, they would have sued me - wouldn't they?" - Plant said that they couldn't be arsed.

The Mick Wall one is more of the same - if I recall correctly.

As an aside - someone in Eason's must be on some serious drugs. €42 is their price for it!

https://www.easons.com/led-zeppelin-bob-spitz-9780399562426?gclid=Cj0KCQiAnuGNBhCPARIsACbnLzozcncidfJZJmq9LA2mKBOV4Db5xOHvr6UdICPR1waJxTmMp_E0HzIaAgBZEALw_wcB

[blessed1]

Reading The Shining again after a few shit books in a row.
It really is a brilliant ghost story.

[CorkonianHunger]

Jim Thompson - Pop 1280
S Craig Zahler - A Congregation of Jackals

Have Yukio Mishima's "Star" up next. Short enough.

[Thorn]

Just started The Hunchback of Notre-Dame for the first time, enjoying it so far

[CorkonianHunger]

Went for my chicken roll lunch and ended up picking up Heart of Darkness with a cool cover, Interview with a Vampire for the missus and some blind buy pulp paperback for a fiver all together.

[Thorn]

Love a bargain!

[open face surgery]

Got a load of books in Chapters a few weeks ago for next to nothing in a closing down sale and got a copy of Heart of Darkness as well.

Is this the cover? https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S_-fW0aumw0/WlecI1HKLCI/AAAAAAAAHrM/paK8KjjyVhULjCcVmM95NqbumacDBaFPQCLcBGAs/s640/HeartofDarkness01.jpg