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Still on my Don DeLillo back catalogue kick: Now it is Mao II. I think there might be one more to go and I will have read all his novels.

Ultravox - 'Lament'.

Probably my last play of the physical disc, as next time will be the remaster.

um....reading? the inner sleeve perhaps?

I had too now. The remaster will not have lyrics included.
Thats my excuse anyway.

Finished Last Call by Tim Powers a few days ago, now started reading The Unborn by David Shobin.

Well I started John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman a couple of weeks ago - amazing amount of detail - but it was too heavy a book to take on my travels so bought and started Awaydays too.

How are you getting on with it? I found it a bit pedestrian as a novel but could see how it would work as one of those 'rights of passage' films.

I've always wanted to read a book that covered the modern history of Europe (yes, I'm ashamed to say I know very little european history), unfortunately many books that I came across were very academic and dry. However I finally found one for my hols that I'm just finishing - In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Dutch journalist Geert Mak. A travelogue of history and places, well written, warm, funny and not at all academic.

One of the 33 1/3 series Low by Hugo Wilcken. These guides to some classic albums are worth the money at GBP 6.99 (US$ 10.95) each. Although most of us who have read about this Bowie period would be very familiar with the contents. Yet, there's more detail of course and it is surely well written. I've just ordered another...Another Green World but the release date has been brought back to 2010!

By the way our John is featured on this book. On the subject of synths during the punk era, John is quoted "electronic stuff was considered something you couldn't touch." In addition, "It was too close to Pink Floyd, forbidden by John Lydon, declared ungood." Ultravox later went on to combine guitars and synths to great effect.

Chris

John Cheever - The Swimmer

Hideyuki Kikuchi - Vampire Hunter D: Volume I.