Quote: zooo @ April 20 2011, 1:18 PM BSTMaybe I shall buy it, throw away the cover and make my own.
Or just leave it unfettered. I do rather like a naked book...
I now have the book, and rather amusingly it quotes her own Dad on the back saying:
"I hope that's not really the cover. That's really going to hurt sales."
Her dad has brains!
I really think it was a mistake.
Im a third of the way through Martina Cole's latest offering and I just can't get into it. Its so repetitive.
I might give up and read The Slap instead.
Quote: AngieBaby @ April 27 2011, 5:08 PM BSTIm a third of the way through Martina Cole's latest offering and I just can't get into it. Its so repetitive.
I might give up and read The Slap instead.
Is that Martina Cole's makeup guide?
How's about I give you The Slap?
God no I hear you can catch chav just by looking at one of her books.
Yes, I got rather bored of the whole 'she's a prozzie/junkie/copper/face, so gets what she deserves'.
I am about to order the latest Joe R Lansdale book.
Everyone is exactly the same but oddly enough it's why they're wonderful.
Re-reading Des Dillon's 'Six Black Candles' because last week I saw the stage play of it, that he's written, and found some of it quite puzzling - couldn't remember enough about the book.
Madame Bovary.
Quote: Griff @ April 20 2011, 12:49 AM BSTWell I finally finished Heller's Something Happened. It's very funny and terribly bleak. It's not the kind of book I normally read (although I did read Catch-22). Almost nothing happens at all for 550 pages, until something shocking does happen, right at the end. Mostly it's just a wander through a character's disturbing and possibly unreliable thoughts and memories. Some very clever, imaginative, and beautiful writing but it was a heck of a struggle to keep going at times. At one point I had to stop and read some Spiderman comics because I was so plot-deprived.
I recall giving up after about 100 pages. You have not convinced me that this was a bad call.
Quote: Timbo @ April 27 2011, 11:26 PM BSTI recall giving up after about 100 pages. You have not convinced me that this was a bad call.
Try Good As Gold instead, Timbo. 
I've been reading Bad Vibes - Britpop and My Part in its Downfall by Luke Haines. It's a bit like an extended Godot Taxis post. I liked it.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ April 27 2011, 11:19 PM BSTMadame Bovary.
The Fearne Cotton of the 19th century...
I know she's going to have an affair (I'm about 30 pages in), but Charles seems so lovely so far! 