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Oh great

Ta

Yes, 1984 is great.

Quote: lofthouse @ 10th May 2014, 12:12 PM BST

Has anyone read 1984?

Quite intrigued but is it very heavy going?

I mean , for a gormless ill educated cretin like myself

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No, it's not heavy going at all.

I'm quite tempted to go see the stage version in the West End.

is there another one

Quote: sootyj @ 10th May 2014, 10:56 PM BST

is there another one

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Yeah, it's at the Playhouse.

I just got copies of all 12 issues of 'Sniffin Glue'

The original 70's punk rock fanzine

Read 1984 before Robert Well belittles you.

'The Lowland' - Jhumpa Lahiri.

Quote: sootyj @ 12th May 2014, 9:59 PM BST

Read 1984 before Robert Well belittles you.

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Who???

It's on the list...

Quote: lofthouse @ 12th May 2014, 9:58 PM BST

I just got copies of all 12 issues of 'Sniffin Glue'

The original 70's punk rock fanzine

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I've got an original copy somewhere too with its original staple. Danny Baker was one of the founders. I saw him once in the old Cinema Bookshop, that's now closed, near Tottenham Court Road. Very chatty, as usual, with the owner.

I found some copies of these recently from my Glam/teenybop days.

It was the first music mag I collected:

I'm pretty sure I've got that actual one. Definitely got the single of "Virginia Plain".

Mine aren't originals - they're fifty quid each!

It's a book with them all reproduced inside

Yep Baker wanted punk put into Room 101

Hippie!

Quote: lofthouse @ 13th May 2014, 6:22 PM BST

It's a book with them all reproduced inside

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I've got that one too... Somewhere. Is it an old edition? Must've bought mine over 20 years ago. Maybe thirty?

Printed in 2009 it says!

Mine looks like this:

My mate says that Viv Albertine's autobiography is very good. She was plugging it last Friday on Jools. I met her on a one week playwriting summer school at the City Lit Adult Education college in London a long time ago. She'd already moved into TV/film directing by then, but she was a student on that course. She was nice, and obviously pretty smart.

This is mine

Viv is really cool

Couldn't really get into The Slits though myself...