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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
I'm reading Roger Lewis's Erotic Vagrancy about Richard Burton & Liz Taylor and it's...er, something. His biographies are always an experience (his Peter Sellers book was interesting in its way but the Anthony Burgess one was nothing but a hatchet job). dont blame her.
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Originally posted by Apollofuzz
Do you mean "The Black Cloud"? oops, you're quite right, must be this awful waeather. By way of apology I'm going to recommend Mister Silly by Roger Hargreaves.
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I will give both a try Originally posted by ex hibitionist
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Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall
dont blame her. But it was a jet liner and they didn't own it!
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Anything by Iain M. Banks - Consider Phlebus & Matter are mind blowing.
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Originally posted by Tyke Exile
Anything by Iain M. Banks - Consider Phlebus & Matter are mind blowing. He used to live quite close to me and claimed he had a working life which went something like sitting in a pub for 9 months thinking about his next book and then writing like crazy for the next 3 months.
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The deaths head chess club!.. John donoghue. Picked this up in Dublin Airport,, brilliant read, found hard to put down!!
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'One-and-a-half Shades of Beige'
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
He used to live quite close to me and claimed he had a working life which went something like sitting in a pub for 9 months thinking about his next book and then writing like crazy for the next 3 months. We were about the same age so a lot of what he writes about rings a bell with me. I wouldn't have minded spending a few months drinking with him! Gone far too soon.
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I would suggest 50 shades of grey but I got chucked out of WH Smith for putting a slippery when wet sign by their display of same.
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Originally posted by Tyke Exile
We were about the same age so a lot of what he writes about rings a bell with me. I wouldn't have minded spending a few months drinking with him! Gone far too soon. I never met him but those who did said he was very pleasant and friendly. It sounds daft but it can be tricky meeting writers whose work you really like in case they somehow don't live up to your expectations. Not fair on them I know.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
I never met him but those who did said he was very pleasant and friendly. It sounds daft but it can be tricky meeting writers whose work you really like in case they somehow don't live up to your expectations. Not fair on them I know. Edinburgh is good for writers talks - I saw Irvine Welsh being interviewed by Denise Mina last night. Everyone who ever met him says the same. One of his memorable quotes: “I’m not arguing there are no decent people in the Tory Party, but they’re like bits of sweetcorn in a turd: technically they’ve kept their integrity, but they’re still embedded in s***.” I'm not obsessed but:-
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