What have you read recently?

Homegrove

Dubman in the meanwhile check out Revival if you haven’t. Just listened to a podcast-episode about it, and finally after 10 years feel like revisiting it. It’s a slow burn cosmic horror-novel with the biggest bummer ending of King’s career. It’s more of a downer even than the movie ending of The Mist (King’s short novel has an open ending different from the movie). After I finished that book I just sat and stared at a wall for 30 minutes. 😂

Dubman

Homegrove
Haven’t really sold it to me on that review. The last Steven king story i read was the Langoliers

Homegrove

Billy Summers was outstanding. King’s best book in ages, and I’ve liked most of his books in this century. This should also work pretty well as a movie.

Along_the_Wire

Homegrove This should also work pretty well as a movie.

I thought the same. It’ll be utterly ruined by a clown director mind.

JonQPublik

Just finished the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. Really enjoyed books 2-5, but there were some doldrums throughout that the truly good stuff barely made up for.

Have started The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Bought it as a palate cleanser, basically.

Along_the_Wire

Dubman he was the right arse that threw his toys out when Digweed starting charging for his bunker sessions. Amongst other tight-arse related posts.

Dubman

Along_the_Wire
Oh yeah. I remember him now. Hope he recovered from that ordeal.

LT42

Reading The Long White Cloud by Buket Uzuner.

It’s about a New Zealand woman who goes back to Gallipoli to find the lost grave of her great-grandfather who died in the Battle of Gallipoli. Pretty good story, that battle was brutal beyond imagination.

Dubman

Started reading Carl Cox’s book this evening. He may not be a lot of people’s fav DJ but you can’t knock his work rate & passion for his craft. I’m only a 3rd in and didn’t realize he had his own sound system in the early rave days and was often booked for his SS and DJing.

Smallman1

Don’t think anyone denies that Coxy is an out and out legend.

And if they do, they’re wrong.

Dubman

Always gets slated on here.

Smallman1

Dubman Always gets slated on here.

Doesn’t play enough prog.

JonQPublik

The Midnight Library wasn’t terrible. Was expecting it to get preachy, but imo it wasn’t.

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix was… fantastic. Very entertaining. Read it over a couple of nights. It got way more brutal than I thought it would.

Echo

Smallman1

Instead, plays horrific ‘techno’

Echo

rhouses

Finally finished Adam Buxton’s Ramble Book. Lol’d many times, took me back to my ‘privileged’ boarding school life in the UK, made me think about my friendships and how it’s so easy to connect over things like music and movies. Also was quite emotional and tender reading about his last couple of months with his father.

Jules72

rhouses loved that… I have it on audible - the chapter about the quiet carriage is hysterically funny

rhouses

Jules72 hilarious bit on the latest christmas podcast with Joe Cornish about the audio book. Where they talk about how the publisher had to bring in a professional audio book reader because Buckles wasn’t doing a good job of it. I wish there was more stuff about his TV career and the stories from the time, that felt a bit rushed.

Mad_Cyril

Read Jockey Sluts tribute to Andrew Weatherall on my Chewbacca inflatable today.

Great to read the interviews and stories, tributes at the end had me a little.

Would thoroughly recommend to anyone who’s past has been soundtracked by the man.

Thanks again to @Smallman1 for providing the heads up on 👍

rhouses

Mad_Cyril ooh I should search this out.

Smallman1

Glad you enjoyed it MC.

There will never be another Weatherall, that much is true.

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