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[RodThunder]

I've been reading "Meetings with Morrissey" by Len Brown extremely intermittently since Christmas. Bizarrely I can't seem to make myself sit down and keep reading it, even though when I do, I enjoy it.

[Jan]

I've bought myself a copy of The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon and Ed Burns.

[pete_inthehills]

Originally Posted by Larsen B

Damned straight. I've read all the Hrabal that's available except Letters to Dubenka. You read anything else by him or seen either of the film adaptations by Jiri Menzel?

that was the first book of his I'd read, so I went out and got a couple of others. I'm now reading "...served the king of England" and I've got Total fears sitting on my book case too.

What are the films called?


pete
inthehills

[Larsen B]

There's an adaptation of Closely Observed Trains from 1966, won best foreign film at the oscars and there's an adaptation of I Served the King of England from a couple of years ago. Both pretty good.

[kirsten]

Originally Posted by RodThunder

I've been reading "Meetings with Morrissey" by Len Brown extremely intermittently since Christmas. Bizarrely I can't seem to make myself sit down and keep reading it, even though when I do, I enjoy it.

I keep meaning to get this and also Morrissey In Conversation.

Has anyone else had the thought that they'd rather buy a book for hours/days of pleasure rather than spend the same amount or more on a film which only lasts about 3 hours?

Reading 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, good book

[Larsen B]

Reading and immensely enjoying Wonderboys by Michael Chabon.

"Not only would I never want to belong to a club that would have me for a member - if elected I would wear street shoes on the squash court and set fire to the ballroom curtains"

[Spoonie]

Currently reading quite a bit by William McIlvanney and loving it. Started with the Laidlaw stuff, then went through The Big Man and today I finished Docherty

[Shaki]

I finished a book and then started a new pro evolution soccer master league on the PS2 last night. This will be my last post here for some time.

[Lucky Rathen]

I'm reading "Bag Of Bones" by Stephen King. I know it's fashionable in literary circles to slag off the Kingmeister's writing abilities, but I love reading his books, he's a great storyterller and the books are really accessible and easy to get absorbed into. Real page turners, every one. He is about the only author who's books I read again and again and again. I started reading him when I was 14, and I spent that year just alternately reading "Christine" and "Pet Semetary" over and over again. I sort of rediscovered him last year after many years away and it's rekindled my love of reading.

Though yeah, he does descend into corniness a little too often,