Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
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Just starting'The Critic'. Peter May is a very engrossing writer.
Still wading through the massive tome on Charles Dickens.......... 
I don't read many books. I find I have to be really up for them e.g. Bill Bryson, Dan Brown.
But I've just ordered The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins . . . we'll see.
Finished The Birthing House, wish I hadn't bothered really...was hoping for a good mild horror / ghost / thriller but it was a jumbled mess.
Back to the search for a decent read...anyone recommend a good psychological thriller that does what it says on the tin?
Don't know about psychological but look at Peter May.
David Walliams autobiography : Camp David.
Found it a bit hard. He talks a lot about his constant depression and it's quite depressing reading.
Also, he doesn't like many people including Matt Lucas his Little Britain partner.
Also - Anger is an Energy John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
Being the same age as him and remembering the fuss about the Sex pistols, it makes it a fascinating read for me.
I can't say it is a good book but it is one I can't put down.
It seems laughable now that they were banned from everywhere for bad language and behaviour - even their LP for having the word Bollocks in it.
But you realise now they were just kids with no one restraining them.
It is a very good insight to the music scene at that time and how they were easily robbed by everyone.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 11th December 2014, 7:46 AM GMTDavid Walliams autobiography : Camp David.
Found it a bit hard. He talks a lot about his constant depression and it's quite depressing reading.
Also, he doesn't like many people including Matt Lucas his Little Britain partner.
I've read that too - borrowed it from the library mainly to find out more about the background of his antipathy towards Richard Osman. The truth was that a cancelled show for RO's company had led to bad feeling between the duo. I seem to recall that there was more than a touch of Partridge's 'Bouncing Back' refrain viz "Needless to say I had the last laugh."
Thats right Mrs Nun. He quite gleefully mocks him with 'look where I am now - and your'e only a 'Pointless' score keeper' attitude.
I thought that churlish of him.
Quote: Oldrocker @ 10th December 2014, 10:06 PM GMTBut I've just ordered The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins . . . we'll see.
Boring, pompous twaddle, stating the blindly obvious. Hitchens wrote a better "God is a c**t" book.
The ebook of The God Delusion is co-read by Lalla Ward, who seems to have picked up a mite of Dawkins' snidely acerbic tone. Not a fun listen.
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 11th December 2014, 9:57 AM GMTAlso - Anger is an Energy John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
Contains an odd anecdote about Graham Chapman's pub trick with a small dog.
He doesn't think much of John Cleese or Jerry Hall.
And the revealing passage of [paraphrasing]: "The record company wanted me to meet with Kurt Cobain and Courtney at the Brer Fox Tar Baby Pits. I really wanted to chat with Kurt, but I said bollocks and cancelled that shit. Actually, I think they [Kurt n Courtney] cancelled it, which made me very happy [yeah, right]."
I liked 'God is Not Great'. (Should have used your title.)
Saw Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam described as a 'prettier Kurt Cobain'.
Re-reading the Ted Lewis Jack Carter trilogy which has been republished with slinky new covers and introductions by various luminaries. Syndicatebooks.com A treat if you're obsessed by the movie Get Carter or the original books.
Fine writing, haunting narration. Best British Noir, unlikely to be bettered.
Quote: Kenneth @ 12th December 2014, 7:44 AM GMTContains an odd anecdote about Graham Chapman's pub trick with a small dog.
He doesn't think much of John Cleese or Jerry Hall.
And the revealing passage of [paraphrasing]: "The record company wanted me to meet with Kurt Cobain and Courtney at the Brer Fox Tar Baby Pits. I really wanted to chat with Kurt, but I said bollocks and cancelled that shit. Actually, I think they [Kurt n Courtney] cancelled it, which made me very happy [yeah, right]."
Although I don't really 'get' punk, but have a fondness for its offspring, New Wave, I'll check it out. Cleese doesn't come across well in his own autobiography, let alone anyone else's.
I'm Reading The Tv Times(Christmas One)