― Jaq, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― James Morrison, Friday, 27 April 2007 05:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll, Saturday, 28 April 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― franny glass, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
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'The Man Who Went Up in Smoke' by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (there should be double-dots diacritics above all those Os) - great 1960s Swedish crime stuff and 'Family and Kinship in East London' by Young & Willmott - fascinating classic book of sociology
― James Morrison, Sunday, 20 May 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, I keep meaning to read the Sjowall/Wahloo stuff - good to hear it's great.
I finished the new Chabon - think I'll need to re-read it, 'cause I just didn't have the time or concentration to really ponder what I was reading.
Now onto Bryson's In a Sunburned Country which seems to be a lot closer to my speed these days.
― MsLaura, Sunday, 20 May 2007 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Is that his book on Australia? It was thrillingly and originally entitled 'Down Under' here. Is it any good? He is hugely popular in Australia, but when I flicked through this one, it seemed very much, 'Gosh, what a lot of poisonous spiders/octopi/snakes they have, how funny that is! Ho ho!'
― James Morrison, Monday, 21 May 2007 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link
James, you nailed it. The poisonous or otherwise murderous fauna of the antipodean continent play a star turn in that book. They are inescapable. Bryson wrings them dry and then makes the reader chew on their dessicated corpses and swallow them down to the last morsel. Spit is optional.
He's fallen a victim to his own reputation, I fear, and now must toil to make us laugh forevermore, no matter how he feels about the matter.
― Aimless, Monday, 21 May 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link