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A new Russian television series is now in Finnish television.

I was reading Gavin Pretor-Pinney's The cloudspotter's guide, but after 50 pages jokes become repetitive & tired, and I started to read a GPS guide instead. Now I am trying to finnish with Cloudspotter (because I never leave once started books unread, in case that it gets better in the last pages - which, to my memory, has never happened though). The book looks good in its black & white artistic outlook, but is actually not-so-good; more than a guide it is a collection of short stories.

Agreed.
Sting was more tolerable in Quadrophenia.

I'm currently re-reading Junky by William S. Burroughs. A damn fine book!

Must ask you as I can't wait to read the book for the answer: Is the Heaven 17 reference actually in the book?

i'm addicted to audio books and then listening to them on iPod, etc. i liked these a lot (many i listen(ed) to:

pynchon's against the day, new york trilogy, by paul auster, all of zecharia sitchen's books, j.g. ballard's crash and concrete island, aldous huxley's brave new world, spook county, and pattern recognition, by william gibson, graham hancock's underworld: the mysterious origins of civilisation, peter newell's the hole book, broken government, simon ford's wreckers of civilsation, william golding's lord of the flies, 1984 and animal farm by george orwell, mothman prophesies, john keel, eric van lustbader's bourne betrayal, naomi klein's the shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism, power, faith and fantasy, by michael b. oren, black swan, from nassim nicholas taleb, girls of riyadh, by rajaa alsanea

I used to read alot of books at one stage... not so many now.... my favourite author is John Irving "Widow for one year" is brilliant!

Indeed it is. I have read this and Naked Lunch again this year.

Currently enjoying another journey through His Dark Materials, having in between completed a fascinating biography of the lovely Jane Goodall

i like all the burroughs. 'the ticket that exploded,' and 'nova express' i want to re-read.

i keep meaning to pick up that book william s. burroughs wrote about cats.

has anyone read this?

John Irving is fantastic. I have read all his novels and yes, 'Widow' is one of his best.

Hi Maryann,

Yes, the name is in the book as The Heaven Seventeen. There's a few other band names thrown about whilst Alex is in the record shop - can't remember if they've ever been adopted by any actual bands though.