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  1. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Not read any of his book. But I do love Re-Animator. Its a cult classic!
  2. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Is that his latest? Heard good things, really need to start reading King.
  3. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    JG Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) 8/10 Am a big Ballard fan (from the little I have read), and this is another deeply disturbing, but brilliantly thought provoking book filled of adept observations, and inventive writing. It formed many of the ideas which would make up his book Crash.
  4. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Sarah Churchwell Careless People Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby 7.5/10 This book charts the history of the writing of the Great Gatsby, as well as many of the real life stories which inspired it, it also gives an insight into the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. The...
  5. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    After Dark - Haruki Murakami 9/10 This was my first ever Murakami book and I was very impressed and intend on buying another soon. First thing I liked was how it is very character driven, and conversational, very little actually happens, but the dialogue is so well written and characters so...
  6. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Petite Mort - Beatrice Hitchman (2013) 8/10 A stylishly written, edgy debut, with some great characters and a gripping conclusion. At times I wasn't sure where it was going, but it was clever how the two separate plots ran side by side but then came together and made sense by the end. It has...
  7. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Have you read many King books? I ask because I have never read any and was wondering which would good to start with? Have heard good things about his latest.
  8. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Paul Auster - Vertigo Man A stylish tale about the flaws of the American dream. An abused boy is bought from his family by a mysterous master who promises to tech him the power to fly, althrough he does so with very extreme methiods. The book kept me engrossed most of the way through and had...
  9. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Scarlett Thomas - Going Out A very novel idea based on two best friends one who is afraid of sunlight, and therefore has lived most of his life in doors and the other who is afaid of flying, they travel along with a group of friends to see a guy who says he can help them. There is a good...
  10. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    How was Great Expections? I've yet to read a Dickeins novel. Both the 40s and 90s film versions are worth checking out.
  11. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Also Infamous with Toby Jones as Truman is a very different take on the character, two excellent films.
  12. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Would love to read that one day, loved the film with PSH playing Copate.
  13. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic 7/10 At times a shocking account of what life was like for Japanise women brought over to the US with dull daily routines and a sense of entrapment. At time the poetic, and repritive pros do grate, but it does grow in substence towards the end when you...
  14. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Check out the film with Julie Christie I think, its really good.
  15. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Masters of Cinema: David Lynch - Thierry Jousse (2007) 7.5/10 This would be a good way to introduce Lynch to people not too famlier with him or his work. There are some nice pictures, and the anylsis and depth of writing about his films are good. I feel there needed to be a bit more on Lynch...
  16. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    The film version is too. Another factor was losing that central realtionship which worked so well in the first story for much of this one.
  17. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot 9/10 The characters are brilliantly written, with some sharp wit and observations. The book twists and turns your expections and feelings as it moves along. The novel works well as a thriller which keeps you guessing until the end, it makes you sad, but...
  18. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    As well as TMP I am also currently reading A 1984 Year in Review film Guide which is amusing, with some nice photos.
  19. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    I am a Boyle fan too, but for me The Beach is his weakest film.
  20. Keith

    What Have You Been Reading Lately

    Hope the novel to the Beach is better than the film lol.
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