Book Thread 2022

Post by **vom** » Sat Jul 16, 2022 12:25 pm

some of the others sound more interesting, but this was another book club selection

I will have to tear it to pieces

(not literally I read the ebook)

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:30 pm

Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis - autobiographical thing about a piece of chewing gum warren ellis stolle off Nina Simone's piano at the end of a gig in 1999. This was good and I liked it a lot

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:30 pm

Also nice to discover that the musician warren ellis is a better writer than the writer warren ellis. and infinitely less of an absolute wanker

Post by **vom** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 12:20 pm

I read John Cooper Clarke's autobiography, which I received as a Christmas present. It was quite enjoyable. He sure did a lot of heroin!!!

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:50 pm

I re-read Terry Pratchett's 'Making Money', a few days back, and was a bit disappointed by it.

Post by **Pual** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:48 pm

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Post by **Pual** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 7:49 pm

More aylett comic madness

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:24 pm

hooray. is it good?

Post by **dng** » Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:24 pm

also i take this means aylett is no longer dead

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:23 am

My curiosity was piqued, so I had a butchers at this:

Enjoyably crackers!

Is the artwork old and he's repurposing it, or is it just drawn to look old school?

Post by **Pual** » Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:33 am

Half of one of the comics is some private investigator man who gets obsessed with pictures of owls
Aylett is apparently only mostly dead (moved to Scotland)
And I think it’s still pictures nicked from old comics like the caterer was

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:34 am

Ta for the info! And I don't know what The Caterer is, so I'll investigate that, now!

Post by **Pual** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:58 pm

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Post by **blombluss** » Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:44 pm

Cor! Hope it's a corker!

Post by **dng** » Fri Nov 11, 2022 5:31 pm

Hooray

Post by **dng** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:41 pm

I went in Waterstones today. No Garth Marenghi, but they did have a new Shaun Hutson hardback

Post by **dng** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:41 pm

"Why book so shit: an autobiography"

Post by **vom** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:48 pm

I wish I was going to see Garth Marenghi on his tour

but I had tickets for something else on the only date near me

as is always the way even now that I barely do anything

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:32 pm

dng wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:41 pm I went in Waterstones today. No Garth Marenghi, but they did have a new Shaun Hutson hardback

At least it wasn't that newly released bok written about Liz Trussssssssssssss. I'd definitely take the Hutson tome over that!

Post by **dng** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:22 pm

Well, yes

Post by **endar** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:27 pm

Shaun Nohuts

Post by **vom** » Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:45 pm

blombluss wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:32 pm
dng wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:41 pm I went in Waterstones today. No Garth Marenghi, but they did have a new Shaun Hutson hardback
At least it wasn't that newly released bok written about Liz Trussssssssssssss. I'd definitely take the Hutson tome over that!

Can I shock you? They're the same book

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:28 am

*slow motion* Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:30 am

endar wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:27 pmShaun Nohuts

A far superior writer imo!

Post by **dng** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 2:36 am

Liz Truss getting eaten by, i don't know, moths or something

Post by **richschnauzer** » Fri Nov 18, 2022 1:05 pm

Project Hail Mary. The Martian, but in Tau Ceti and a cute alien.

Post by **dng** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:40 pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QChky2z8i2A

Post by **endar** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:12 pm

Fucking brillant

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:18 pm

That iss eggs! Hurrah!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:28 pm

sticking this in the book thread, because it's a bit too grim for the other obvious thread. No wonder they kept it quiet. I used to love those books, too. Grim.

https://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/0 ... ntasy.html

Post by **dng** » Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:53 pm

fucking hell

Post by **endar** » Sat Jan 07, 2023 5:16 pm

Post by **endar** » Sat May 06, 2023 9:57 am

Has anyone read The Book of Disquiet, i can't remember

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qU1sDBU9Cs

at 5:32 is an animation of a dream i keep having

Post by **dng** » Sat May 06, 2023 1:27 pm

I haven't but now I will.

Post by **dng** » Sat May 06, 2023 1:30 pm

Or at least have added it to the big list of books I should read next

Post by **endar** » Sat May 06, 2023 2:44 pm

Post by **vom** » Sat May 06, 2023 3:08 pm

the last book I finished was RAWBLOOD by Catriona Ward, a gothic horror kinda thing, and it was fucking brilliant and made me wonder if I need to stop everything else and just read gothic horror forever

Post by **endar** » Sat May 06, 2023 3:23 pm

Yes. Yes you do.

Added to my list.

Gothic horror is best horror

Post by **endar** » Sat May 06, 2023 3:25 pm

Ooh it's set on Dartmoor. Best moor

Post by **vom** » Sat May 06, 2023 3:28 pm

definitely one of the most gothic places

Post by **vom** » Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:57 pm

I'm reading Galactic Pot-Healer again which means it's time to enjoy this one more time

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Post by **dng** » Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:39 pm

hooray

Post by **endar** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 12:55 am

Hooryas!

Post by **endar** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 1:02 am

Best Dick. Along with Dr Bloodmoney, perhaps

Post by **Pual** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:36 am

vom wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:57 pm I'm reading Galactic Pot-Healer again which means it's time to enjoy this one more time

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Best joke

Post by **Pual** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 8:40 am

I thought of joke:

Amish van Helden
Acceptable in the (17)80s

I’ve got love for you
If you built a barn in the 80s, the 80s

And so on

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jun 19, 2023 7:24 pm

Hehehe! Excellente!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Sun Jun 25, 2023 2:45 pm

Caitlin Moron has written a book about teh menz and it looks awful

Post by **vom** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 12:30 pm

vom wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:48 pm I wish I was going to see Garth Marenghi on his tour

but I had tickets for something else on the only date near me

as is always the way even now that I barely do anything

I went to see Garth Marenghi on his subsequent tour, last night. It was very funny and I bought the new book, although I'm not sure if I should read the previous book first as there seem to be some recurring characters and so on. And obviously I'm expecting a completely coherent narrative

Post by **dng** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:56 pm

I keep meaning to buy those books but also then keep forgetting