IdleRich
IdleRich
I think that's it yeah
what are you reading now?
forclosure
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still reading Moon Witch Spider King and like Black Leopard i've just past the point where the book felt difficult to parse(although i felt like i had surer footing than if somebody never read the first one) and now it all feels so clear. It's turned into something resembling a courthall drama, the king has died and there was really harrowing moving description of the washing of the dead body.
There's also a developing relationship between Sogolon and this shapeshifting lion but the way he's described feels more mundane alot of the really out there fantastical parts of the world and the underground kingdom in both Dark Star books are described in these matter of fact mundane and sometimes strange ways including the people within it
There's also a developing relationship between Sogolon and this shapeshifting lion but the way he's described feels more mundane alot of the really out there fantastical parts of the world and the underground kingdom in both Dark Star books are described in these matter of fact mundane and sometimes strange ways including the people within it
william_kent
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halfway through - any book that mentions Tibetan Ukrainian Mountain Troupe ( number one sonic IRL experience for me, courtesy of Operation Julie acid ), 2000 DS, AND Quadrant Park, deserves a spot on my "secret history of UK underground" shelf
Quadrant Park - 1990
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Soft and cuddly by jarett kobek, about the Sinclair zx spectrum game.
Very funny and with a few interesting thoughts about post war British politics and thatcher, for an American.
And some good stuff about the ramshackle nature of British computing in the 80s.
One of those I started reading thinking it was very lightweight but then you get drawn in. Very good chapter all about how the game makes literally no sense and seems designed to frustrate the player. Also the designer was a scouser.
I never had a spectrum (had an Acorn my mum borrowed for us from school and then an archimedes a3000) but my friend did and I remember that colour bleed. The trail that followed you round the screen.
This guy who made soft and cuddly used the bug of the bleed as a feature to make his animations work, in a very idiosyncratic custom coding way. Boss.
I've ordered kobek's new book "motor spirit" (amazon print on demand) about the zodiac murders.
Very funny and with a few interesting thoughts about post war British politics and thatcher, for an American.
And some good stuff about the ramshackle nature of British computing in the 80s.
One of those I started reading thinking it was very lightweight but then you get drawn in. Very good chapter all about how the game makes literally no sense and seems designed to frustrate the player. Also the designer was a scouser.
I never had a spectrum (had an Acorn my mum borrowed for us from school and then an archimedes a3000) but my friend did and I remember that colour bleed. The trail that followed you round the screen.
This guy who made soft and cuddly used the bug of the bleed as a feature to make his animations work, in a very idiosyncratic custom coding way. Boss.
I've ordered kobek's new book "motor spirit" (amazon print on demand) about the zodiac murders.
IdleRich
IdleRich
What is this game? I never had a Spectrum but the guy across the road from us did have one and we used to pretend to be friends with him so that we could go round his house and play on it - "Hi there is Spec... I mean is Andrew in?" - and that was my introduction to computer games that were actually fun. I remember loving Renegade and Dizzy and probably some others too... but what is this game that I have never heard of that is deemed important enough to necessitate a book about it thirty some years later?
I never heard of it before but I think the book is part of a series where they focus on a game for each book.
Heres a review
heavyfeatherreview.org
Heres a review
James Ardis Reviews Jarett Kobek’s Soft & Cuddly
Soft & Cuddly (1987) and its predecessor Go to Hell (1985) were horror games published on cassette tapes for what is now an obscure British computer system. The games were proudly the products …
heavyfeatherreview.org
I'm about halfway through Vollmann's You Bright & Risen Angels and really enjoying it. There's a lot of Burroughs and Pynchon in there, whether or not he admits to having read them, and you can tell it's the first effort of an odd and precocious young man, but it's a pretty dazzling burst of creativity - like reading someone hanging on for dear life whilst wrangling a thrashing electrical cable.
I do think what mckenna says about men vs women in terms of behaviour is interesting. Women as more attuned/developed in language capability, cos their success/survival depended upon finding things out and sharing information, whereas men typically worked alone, kept silent.
In that sense we are really breaking some boundaries here on the forum.
In that sense we are really breaking some boundaries here on the forum.
mixed_biscuits
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Unless all we've done is collected the most effeminate men
woops
is not like other people
the best one i've read for a long time is Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye by Horace McCoy
jenks
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I’m on holiday so I’ve got time to start a whole bunch of things I’ve been looking forward to - Edmund’s Lights, Adam Scovell’s latest Nettles, Canzone di Guerre by Daša Drndríc, re-reading Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread, Brookner on 19th C French art critics plus a novel by Bros Goncourt.
jenks
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Any chance of narrowing that down a tad? What kind of detective? Because you can’t go wrong with Simenon’s Maigret but you might want something a bit more modern or gritty.
you
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I've been a Robert Aickman fan for a few years. I recently read Ray Russell's biography of him - An Attempted Biography. It's excellent, though can't say I'll ever read Aickman in quite the same way.
The same can be said for Carole Angier's Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G Sebald. I'll not read Sebald with quite the same romanticism.
Looking forward to the new Colin Barrett, Homesickness, I adored Young Skins years ago.
Currently enjoying, with a mix of delight and sheer envy, Joel Lane's Scar City.
The same can be said for Carole Angier's Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G Sebald. I'll not read Sebald with quite the same romanticism.
Looking forward to the new Colin Barrett, Homesickness, I adored Young Skins years ago.
Currently enjoying, with a mix of delight and sheer envy, Joel Lane's Scar City.
jenks
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Good to see @you back.
Just finished Homesickness - I really liked most of it but nothing quite reached the peaks of Young Skins which I re-read recently. I don’t know if you’ve read Wendy Erskine, a writer from Belfast - I’m a huge fan and have seen her read a few times. Both Sweet Home and the new collection Dance Move are great. I’m fact I think she got reviewed with Barrett in a couple of newspapers.
Just finished Homesickness - I really liked most of it but nothing quite reached the peaks of Young Skins which I re-read recently. I don’t know if you’ve read Wendy Erskine, a writer from Belfast - I’m a huge fan and have seen her read a few times. Both Sweet Home and the new collection Dance Move are great. I’m fact I think she got reviewed with Barrett in a couple of newspapers.