Off Topic Chazz's Book Club

Happens to me a lot. However, oftentimes I will pick up the same book years later and not be able to put it down.

 

Watched a few episodes on TV Ernie and I thought I was watching I Claudius at times he played both characters in a similar style, like both series by the way.

 

I'll leave them for now Tex, I'm stuck into a couple of Alan Sugar books.

 

I'm struggling with it tbh.

I'm currently only 25% of the way through the first one.

Nowts happening really.

Some girl is really a boy in disguise.

Loads of people have been killed in retribution after defending Shrewsbury.

And they've found a body of someone who wasn't killed in retribution mixed in with the retributionees.

So they buried him.


The plot is being laid down with a trowel.

 

Did anyone catch Elvis reading from this, R4 last week? There's a double CD, but the book sounds pretty good.

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I wasn't disappointed. Far from it. Really enjoyed them. Now on to The Republic of Thieves.

 

Having read 10 Dennis Lehane novels, I thought I'd better tick off Mystic River, which is regarded as his best. Turns out it is his best. I wasn't expecting that.

I watched the film afterwards - as happens so often with books I enjoy, it was a let-down.

 

Nearly finished Why I Am So Wise by Nietzsche. Gonna read Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard after.

 

I am currently reading The Rise Of The Robots. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0147D1WIO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

It's difficult to see what sort of jobs there'll be for young people in 20 years time.

 

Good books

Sknhead
Skinhead escapes
Boot boys
Skinhead girl
Suedehead
Spirit of 69

 

They get decent reviews but I'm glad I never bumped into the author, suspect he was a nutter...

 

That image couldn't be further from the truth.

He was a prolific author, nearly 50 when his first "sub-culture" book was published. He wrote many books under many different pseudonyms, Richard Allen being one. His real name was James Moffat, a Canadian who moved to the UK & lived, happily married, in Sidmouth.

Have a look at this.

 

I don't dispute his productivity, and nutter isn't really the right word, but I suspect he was far too right wing for my taste.

 

Watch the BBC link, it's nothing like you suspect.

 

Back to books! Currently reading Jon Savage's 1966. Very interesting, but perhaps not as good as his 'England's Dreaming'.

 

Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky

Next: H is for Hawk (Helen Macdonald); Norwegian Wood (Lars Mytting);

 

I read Skinhead a chapter at a time in WH Smith's on King Edward Street. I didn't want to buy it so I went in each Saturday to read it.

 

The History of The Moelfre Lifeboats. Keep have to keep hiding it from the Mrs

 

I'm reading two accounts of the battle of the Alamo, one of which was written from the point-of-view of the Mexicans by General Santa Anna's lieutenant.

 

I just got John Harvey's last Charlie Resnick novel out of the local library: "darkness, darkness". Set in Nottingham, where I once lived. Great books!