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Originally Posted by Sue Denim..

Just finished the graphic novel "Watchmen".
What an absolutely stunning book / comic.
I hear the movie's coming out next year. There's absolutely no way the Hollywood treatment is ever going to do it justice. This is a must read. (I've been putting it off for about 10 years because I'd gone off comics... how stupid of me.)

It is jaw-droppingly good, isn't it?

I once had the opportunity to interview Alan Moore, but it fell through at the last moment. I've been kicking myself ever since...*


*not literally, of course.

[Paranoid Android]

Just finished " A wild sheep chase" by Murakami.

Am I the only person on here who likes Graham Spiers?

[KimyReizeger]

The football journalist? Yeah I like him. Why are we talking about him?

Edit: just worked it out. Spiers is probably the most astute pundit around.

[Eidolon]

'Lonesome Traveler' by Jack Kerouac

I loved it, would recommend him to everyone.

[Sue Denim..]

Continuing my new-found love of comic novels, I've started reading 'Maus' by Art Speigelman.
The Holocaust with Mice, cats and pigs...... Pretty good, if a little sad.

Originally Posted by Sue Denim..

Continuing my new-found love of comic novels, I've started reading 'Maus' by Art Speigelman.
The Holocaust with Mice, cats and pigs...... Pretty good, if a little sad.

They've actually started teaching it in American schools.

[Sue Denim..]

Originally Posted by Steven Dedalus

They've actually started teaching it in American schools.

They've started teaching it here as part of an English degree. That's why I'm reading it. (The missus is doing the degree, I just picked up the book because it was a graphic novel lying around the living room.)

[kirsten]

Finished 'Bit of a Blur' by Alex James the other day. Was good, but poorly written with lots of emphasis on being famous seen in the excessive use of the phrase, "When you're famous, [Insert name of pub/club/country/city here] is where you have to go if you want to be seen."
Still think he's ace though. Happy being posh.

Am now about halfway through On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Been meaning to read it for ages to see if it is "literary genius" as many have said or "overrated" as my dad says.

[KimyReizeger]

Originally Posted by kirsten

Finished 'Bit of a Blur' by Alex James the other day. Still think he's ace though..

I find him totally unbearable, the worst type of celebrity jack-of-all-trades: column in the Guardian, Have I got news for you guest, Johnathon Ross guest, cheese maker, radio 4 host, 'judge' on some shitty Ch4 talent show, writer..

[scottyboy]

Kerouac sucks.