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I have read that one several times. He is one of my favorites also.

Currently reading Don DeLillo: The Names

A beautiful occult thriller set in Swedish suburb. When you have read the book, you can now go and see the movie. Perfect translation of the book. Go see it, before Hollywood revamps the thing:

John Ajvide Lindqvist: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

I 2nd that.The film is excellent.

Following last week's superb edition of 'My Life in Verse' I am really enjoying another reading of TS Eliot and especially The Love Song of J Alfred Prufock

Look forward to the Four Quartets again soon.

I always think that revisiting a favourite book, film or album is like going back to a favourite Lost City. There are bits of an earlier you lying like dust on every page.

Poetry really is the essence of great literature.
It's not often I see a TV programme that I 'get' but this episode was really insightfula nd well-presented by Robert Webb.

He seems to like the same poets as me for the same reasons, and presented the case for e.e. cummings well too.
I wonder if there's an influence on John's work in the latter especially.
Another 'cut-up' practioner, as interested in the shape, layout and organisation of words as their meaning and juxtaposition:



Wonderful stuff

WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING : HARUKI MURAKAMI A great read indeed
sent to me by all round gentleman , scholar and my trusty domestique and Velomatic vice captain Radio Beach

A man of impeccable taste : John Foxx , footy , cycling ,running What more could someone ask for in life ?
Radler , we salute you

A truly wonderful short book Here's how the International Press reviewed it

"Wunderbar" Die Welt
"Formidablee" Le Monde
"Magnifico" Corriere gella Sera
"Friggin'Marvellous" Liverpool Echo
"Reet Gradely" Chorley Advertiser

Considering how little poetry I read these days, I guess my reply belongs in the What Are You Watching? thread. Anyway, I agree with you, what a fantastic programme that was - Robert Webb is a top geezer anyway of course. I tried Eliot once (or twice) - especially the Four Quartets. I have to say it didn't quite work for me back then but after this programme I will definitely give Thomas Stearns another go.

e. e. was another one I tried to understand but failed miserably. I am less a fan of the display of the words all over the page, or at least I was. Nice to see a mention of Larkin, the only poet I ever truly loved and "got".

I've recently found this book The Dictionary of Rock & Pop Names and it's pretty interesting - quite a few unknown facts about the origins of band and stage names etc. Ultravox, John, Midge, Kraftwerk and Mr.Numan get a mention!

The book covers bands old and new but as the author told me it's all covered quite briefly due to the harsh word count restrictions. He appeared on the BBC news a week or two ago but I only caught the last 10 seconds. I would reccommend it but the price seems to have gone up since I last looked .

Glad you liked it!

I'm starting/halfway through/put down and forgot where I left it;

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report by Iain Sinclair

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton (not as pretentious as it sounds!)

Baader-Meinhof Complex by Stefan Aust

Peter F Hamilton - The Dreaming Void [img]http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=cheapcarbooks-3-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0345496531[/img] and
William Gibson - Pattern Recognition [img]http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=cheapcarbooks-3-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0140266143[/img]

Two very different books. One is classic space-opera, the other is just weird.
The London zx-81 traders thing is odd, as is the "Charlie Don't Surf" thing..

Philip Larkin - Jill