Question What are you reading?

[Rob Noxious]

Currently reading Richard Bradford's Orwell:A Man OF Our Time.Controversial but very much a bookk for our time too.

Been enjoying that 'Ministry Of Truth' book you lent me. Still haven't finished it of course as I'm a slapdash reader.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Been enjoying that 'Ministry Of Truth' book you leant me. Still haven't finished it of course as I'm a slapdash reader.

Shame.I'll post this new one on, to you assuming we make it to France again some time.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Really? Great entertainment IMO.

Small print and a lot of floral Victorian language.

Thst said the first vampire has just been killed and the hunt for The Count is afoot.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Small print and a lot of floral Victorian language.

Thst said the first vampire has just been killed and the hunt for The Count is afoot.

Read it a long time ago.My eyes were probably better then.It gets better once the Count is on the boat for Whitley.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Whitby.

That is right at the beginning.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Whitby.

That is right at the beginning.

From memory though the early scenes were set in Dracula's castle when Jonathan Harker was a guest?

 

[Mad Cyril]

From memory though the early scenes were set in Dracula's castle when Jonathan Harker was a guest?

Yes however a good chunk of the book is set in Whitby.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Currently reading Ted Lewis's :Jack's Return Home aka Get Carter.Enjoyable thriller.Glad they dropped the casual 1970's racism for the film though.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started White Heat.A look back at the 60's.They say if you remember the 60's you weren't really there.But the book starts with Churchill's funeral.I certainly remember that.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Just started Sarfaz Manzoor's Greetings from Bury park.A must for Springsteen fans and the inspiration for the forthcoming film Blinded by the Light.

What a cracking memoir - and very moving in parts too. Many thanks for sending it my way.

 

[Ricey]

Just finished Jimmy Bullard’s book which was a very entertaining read and now starting on Slash’s book.

 

[MK Shrimper]

What a cracking memoir - and very moving in parts too. Many thanks for sending it my way.

Just started that too. Devouring it, excellent read.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Been enjoying that 'Ministry Of Truth' book you lent me. Still haven't finished it of course as I'm a slapdash reader.

Have a new Orwell book to send your way next time we're in France (cheap postage).

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just started Richard Bradford's excellent The Biography of Alan Sillitoe: The Life of a Long Distance Runner.(Met the great man once, (that's Sillitoe not RB) in Sant Pargoire (near Montpellier).Nice bloke.

 

[Rob Noxious]

Have a new Orwell book to send your way next time we're in France (cheap postage).

Finally got around to picking up Johnny Rogan's biography of Ray Davies, 'A Complicated Life,' that you passed onto me many moons ago. Typically well-written and avidly researched and a great insight into the post-war days. Just up to the period when 'You Really Got Me' was released - great stuff and many thanks again for all your hand-'em-ons! ?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Finished Dracula.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Finished Dracula.

Worthwhile?

 

[Mad Cyril]

Worthwhile?

Yes.

Less so for The Count.

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Yes.

Less so for The Count.

I've read the Sherlock Holmes stories which can be hard work at times and was wondering why you would say Dracula was also hard work reading.