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Question What are you reading?

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'FM247: This Is Radio Binfield!' - by Rob Spooner & Andrew Worsdale.

Set in the late '90s, it tells a tale through music lyrics and random flashbacks inspired by pop songs of yester-year. The main protagonist, Lugwin Loggins, is haunted by memories of growing up in Binfield, a British seaside town with uncanny similarities to...

...Southend! :clap:

"Music is the conduit and the Radio 1 DJs of his youth are the ciphers he uses to tell of the tortures and joys of growing up, and how we never forget those songs or the emotions we felt at the time - dealing with school, football, girls, lack of rhythm on the dance floor, underage drinking and young love when hormones are going beserk."

Lugwin inhabits an unusual world but "comes alive through his memories of his past, his friends, pop music and ultimately through his growing psychosis" as he searches for the childhood friend whom he betrayed. The blurb on the back (from which all the above quotes come from) describes it as "a brilliant and original piece of satirical writing with powerful Orwellian overtones" and the 'Binfield' reference is indeed one 'borrowed' from Orwell's 'Coming Up For Air.'

I'm reading it again for the first time in a few years and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
 
Drastic Sturgeon said:
Just started 'All Gone To Look For America' by Peter Millar, a british journalist. It's a travelogue of his journey around America using the fading train network. Superb so far and I'm only a few pages in.
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Just finished reading it the other day, it was an excellent read. Uses his train journey's to look at how America was built and has a good grasp of American history. As far as travelling writing goes, sometimes he can seem abit down on modern america (ie. the big corporations & dying city centres of middle america), but this is matched with his enthusiastic tales of the people he met, and his love of beer and the resurgance of micro-breweries in the USA.

Also just finished reading Watchmen for the first time. Absolutely brilliant, really loved the complexities of the characters, and I often like stories where it exists in a world v similar to ours but where some small change sends it off differently. Despite being a bit of a lefty my favourite characters were the Comedian & Rorschach the two most rightwing characters in it! Having watched the film a little while ago, I liked the extra level of detail in the g.novel's world and the extra few events that explained some things more, although I still can't understand some of the abuse levelled at the film from the comic fan's.

I'll be starting Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels' next.
 
Drastic Sturgeon said:
Just finished reading it the other day, it was an excellent read. Uses his train journey's to look at how America was built and has a good grasp of American history. As far as travelling writing goes, sometimes he can seem abit down on modern america (ie. the big corporations & dying city centres of middle america), but this is matched with his enthusiastic tales of the people he met, and his love of beer and the resurgance of micro-breweries in the USA.

Also just finished reading Watchmen for the first time. Absolutely brilliant, really loved the complexities of the characters, and I often like stories where it exists in a world v similar to ours but where some small change sends it off differently. Despite being a bit of a lefty my favourite characters were the Comedian & Rorschach the two most rightwing characters in it! Having watched the film a little while ago, I liked the extra level of detail in the g.novel's world and the extra few events that explained some things more, although I still can't understand some of the abuse levelled at the film from the comic fan's.

I'll be starting Kerouac's 'Desolation Angels' next.
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Will have to check that Millar one out. I've had some good recommendations from on here and I think from you in particular. Just finished Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights (cheers Benji), although I prefer the fictionalised TV series it's worth reading for an insight into small town America.

Am currently reading Lord Jim. I know English is Conrad's third(?) language so it feels churlish to criticise but I can't help thinking that, whilst it is a minor quibble, a few more full stops wouldn't go amiss to slice up some of those evocative yet lengthy sections of prose containing, as they do, several clauses that make the sentences roll on and on, that whilst painting an atmospheric picture, leave you almost gasping for breath by the time you eventually stumble upon a full stop. What it probably means is that I either haven't had enough sleep recently or that I've been reading too much trash.

BaileytheQuitter said:
The turn of the screw. Have to for uni, crap.
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Henry James' one?

What are you studying - English Lit?
 
Just read a very dull Conn Iggulden book - Caesar did this, but then he did this, and he got in a fight. But the nasty man raped his wife. Plot by numbers, very boring.

Now reading the wonderful Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, downloaded from Gutenberg.
 
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