what are you reading right now?

[TheDave]

and she's gunna die.

how ironic.

i haven't quite figured out how yet ....

[amysaurusrex]

No she's not.
When I was looking for the "fox" at the end of the book, you know, that fox you said would have a name, I saw Lindsay in it. So nerr.

Edit: Just finished the book. Lindsay didnt die, the killers were captured and the lesbinims went into witness protection to live a happy life.

[rosso]

When Giants Walked the Earth - A Biography of Led Zeppelin - Mick Wall



Click for Guardian article

To be utterly foully honest .. its dull. Dreadfully awfully dull.


If only these fuckers were stuck on a boat, lost in a secret jungle deep in Sussex with a delusional half-mad Japanese firearm maniac at the recording desk...


Now, there's an idea

edit: Page 270

...Bonzo walked in with Chicken Shack guitarist Stan Webb, both men ordering a concoction comprising measures from every bottle behind the bar all thrown together in one large glass. After drinking which 'they went berserk.

ha ha...

Ah, happy days. When a serious musician could drink his own weight in lethal cocktails and still punch a journalists face to mush in between vomiting his guts up in a Soho gutter.

[TheDave]

Lord, i tried to read that. Gave up about half way through.

I forgot, i recently read:
Richard Herring - How Not To Grow Up


And it's very good. Essentially, the synopsis is dead on. It's a yearly diary which starts off all comedic, wistfully trying to get threesomes and making cock jokes, spiraling into self loathing and excessive drinking and hissy fits, followed by a self-realisation of sorts where he stops drinking, eating fried chicken at all hours and fucking anything that moves. And actually starts getting some work done and achieving more of what he was meant to be doing 10 years before.

Exactly as it says. If you act like a dick on a daily basis, you'll enjoy it. Plus i actually find him funny.
Incidentally his podcast As It Occurs To Me is childish toilet humour of the previous 7 days in his life. Much like the book. I enjoy it.
It taught me about Cumkins.

Along with the slightly more adult Collins & Herring one. Essentially current affairs with more swearing.
He's also done a daily blog for the last, well.... years.

[Fitzburger]

[plastic_paddy]

Awesome and as relevant as always, I see.

Now reading In The Woods by Tana French - an Irish detective thriller set in Dublin. It's Tana's debut apparently, and really like the style of writing. Story itself has been pretty intruiging. 3 small kids disappear in woodland, only one of them is found - seemingly unharmed but shoes filled with someone else' blood. 20 plus years later the one kid is now a Murder Investigator and a kid gets murdered in his old town.

[rosso]

3 small kids disappear in woodland, only one of them is found - seemingly unharmed but shoes filled with someone else' blood.

Well if I saw that on an advert I'd be kicking the book shop door in for a copy at 8.59 on a Monday morning

[summer of george]

Well if I saw that on an advert I'd be kicking the book shop door in for a copy at 8.59 on a Monday morning

Especially if it was an Advert for Clarks, back to school, 40 fucking quid a pair....Lord of the Flies but with proper arch support..how much..Christ...but

"you have to have Clarks they are the only ones that last unless you fucking nailgun the childrens feet to the floor and is it just me but why is that not an option, i'm led to believe it works for the Chinese, oh now I'm being unreasonable fuck off..here's the cash but if he scuffs them ..he's just scuffed them..14 seconds..fetch my nailgun..what do you mean I have never owned a nailgun as I am a man-child who throws money at problems and just leaves the kitchen dark because changing a bulb is a hassle and ..no..why is this about me..fuck you I WILL sleep on the sofa..fine...I'm cold..can I..no the whole thing reeks of middle class..those desert boots are awesome... "


I Just finished a collection of Ambrose Pierce ghost stories, the first three volumes of "the preacher" comic, and I'm going back to the Road by Cormac Mcarthy even though the first fifty pages have been full of looming child peril.

[Rimjob]

Ringolevio......for the third time. I just like the hide and seek cop killing smack digging horror porn terrorist hippy provider vibe..and the fact that Peter Coyote was a good mate of the author.

Children don't need shoes. They need to learn respect.

[summer of george]

Stewart Lees book - How I escaped my certain fate.

Essentially transcripts of three of his stand up routines with ridiculously expansive footnotes.

Often funny, there is a huge drag in the middle where he gets a bit tiresome and pompous about "comedy" and pueblo clowns, but some fine jokes about Richard Littlejohn and I laughed hard and out loud at least four times.

It didn't help me with my growing and slightly destructive urge to despise Howard Jacobsen though..that may be trouble eventually.

[TheDave]

Funny that, i've also read that recently. Mainly because i heard the stuff about Littlejohn was very funny - which it was.
It's just a shame i fine Stewart Lee so boring. His monotone drawl makes me want to nap when i hear it out loud.

But then again, i lve Richard Herring stuff - so what the fuck do i know.
Bloody Cumkins ....