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Just wanted to say that is a formidable side listed as your sig, who would probably smash all and sundry in the Championshio asunder, and have us in the Prem by Christmas :clap:

Check out Lynne Ramsey's film adaptation of the book, which I can't compare, as I haven't read the book, but is a v good film :smile: Ratcatcher by the same director is also worth a look... Am currently waiting for my latest 'via the link' Amazon purchase, namely Black Square, on the genesis...

Pornocopia: porn, s*x, technology and desire Laurence O'Toole (*named after his father, perhaps?)

How To Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek Psychoanalysis meets philosophy, with some art/film critical analysis and a fair bit of smut, sorry, sexiophantasmigorical deconstruction... An ideal stocking filler request via the Amazon link up top :-)

I'm just going to start Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn The blurb promises a smut-fest, so should be a banger :)

After finishing Joe Klein's biography of Woodie Guthrie, I picked up Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller, and can see the linkage between early and mid twentieth century American music, politics and life in general :) PS the former is a brilliant book, deffo worthy of a read

I'm just about to start Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie: A Life It's mentioned by Springsteen in one of his monologues between songs on one of his live records, so hopefully will be a good read :)

Catch 22 Have started it a few times over the years and never finished it, so will plough in to the end this time :)

Irvine Welsh - The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs Having read Filth and Ecstasy recently, and starting this one, I think I am reading the definitive writer on all things geezer/violence/footy/drug taking/chavvy dimwit...

Ecstasy - Irvine Welsh Probably good of its time

Also read a few Clive Cussler's, the all-action shipwreck/treasure numbers that proliferate under C on charity shop book shelves. Fast moving pageturners with good endings...

And prior to that No Blacks, No Irish, No Dogs - the John Lydon (auto)biography. Straight from the 'orse's maath, innit!? Solid read...

Just finished Filth by Irvine Welsh. LOL funny...

I know what you are saying, it's just that Beat writing should (if you so wish?) be taken in the context of when it was written. Early post-war USA, and the rest of the world, was going through massive changes, and this maelstrom heralded the genesis of critical theory and debate, due to the...

Just finished Kerouac's On The Road (second read, and took it in more), and will now delve into Sillitoe's The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner and accompanying short stories and poem :)

I read that also, and agree it is pony, but you will NEVER guess the ending :thumbsup:

Warhol's World A photo essay published to coincide with his 2006 retrospectives in London and New York A good insight into the Factory and Studio 54 culture of the time, and all in glorious B/W

I hope you took your copy of Things to do before you are fifty to a charity shop, now you have outgrown it :wink:

I've 'read' about 137 pages of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and have taken 0% in. I just can't make head nor tail of it, possibly due to brain-hemisphere complications ??? Will stick to the pulp fiction :)

I checked his Wiki page, and the third installment is being written atm, and is due out this year. Wish I'd read the initial installment first...