Raiziel wrote:It’s really good. I’m getting misty eyed just thinking about box set of 13 cassette tapes in their gold foil cases I bought back in the late eighties.
Really, really great book. It helps that his voice is so memorable and is in your head as you read. The stuff on Savile is predictably interesting, as is the scientology bits but it's his constant impostor syndrome and his self awareness of his shortcomings that really make it.Gremill wrote:Reading Louie Theroux's new book, a biography of sorts - it's highly amusing and quite well written.
Nina wrote:I'm shocked to find out you could rent a house in Bel Air for $1200 at the time.
Raiziel wrote:Finished NOS4R2 last night by Joe Hill. Wasn’t all that great. Prose was okay, but the story was downright silly. Maybe I should have anticipated that before starting a book with a title like NOS4R2. Also, in this book at least, he doesn’t seem to have pulled completely out of daddy’s shadow, as Mid-World and Pennywise both get a mention. I did pick up Heart-Shaped Box last year, but after this one I’m not sure I’ll bother with it.
Before that I tried Obscura by Joe Hart. Really awful. I struggled on through two thirds of it because I thought the plot was intriguing, but the writing was so abysmal I just couldn’t go on in the end.
Just started The Reddening by Adam Nevill (he wrote The Ritual) and so far so very good, and also right in the middle of 14 by Peter Clines, which I’m really loving. Feels quite a lot like Lost so far, only set in an apartment building instead of an island.
Gremill wrote:Raiziel wrote:Finished NOS4R2 last night by Joe Hill. Wasn’t all that great. Prose was okay, but the story was downright silly. Maybe I should have anticipated that before starting a book with a title like NOS4R2. Also, in this book at least, he doesn’t seem to have pulled completely out of daddy’s shadow, as Mid-World and Pennywise both get a mention. I did pick up Heart-Shaped Box last year, but after this one I’m not sure I’ll bother with it.
Before that I tried Obscura by Joe Hart. Really awful. I struggled on through two thirds of it because I thought the plot was intriguing, but the writing was so abysmal I just couldn’t go on in the end.
Just started The Reddening by Adam Nevill (he wrote The Ritual) and so far so very good, and also right in the middle of 14 by Peter Clines, which I’m really loving. Feels quite a lot like Lost so far, only set in an apartment building instead of an island.
Have you read The Fireman or Horns? Both are excellent.
poprock wrote:I’m about halfway through this book and planning to use my day off sick to finish it. So far it’s a pleasure. Far less disorientating than The Peripheral, with just as much to offer.
Gremill wrote:I'm currently reading The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, which is a kind of gentle (so far) dystopian novel about a society of the near future (in Sweden at least) where when you reach 50 you are assessed as either 'useful' or 'disposable'.
The disposables are taken to The Unit where they live luxurious but constantly monitored lives, take part in clinical experiments and are gradually harvested for their organs until the 'final donation'.
I'm about a third of the way through and it's got a good line in sinister dread going - I'm intrigued to know where it'll go next.
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