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[Man_called_sun]

[Basualdo]

Jesus, here's a blast from the past! Man Caught sight of Seldom.

[Roddy]

Just bought 'The Black Dahlia' and 'American Tabloid'. As per, one of my favourite books is this, quite a hard read with the language, but worth it:

That was a fantastic book Carlos, the fine details of prison he writes about are brutal.

[Roddy]

James Ellroy and Ian Rankin are my favourite crime writers.

[Roddy]

I have started reading a couple of books by this guy called Julius Evola that he wrote after the WW2.
He was a Buddhist inspired psychedelic drug taking fascist.
Although he died in the 70's he talks about the rise of global protest movements.

"The working class has entered the consumer system,being assured of a lifestyle that is no longer proletarian but bourgeois: the very thing whose absence was the incentive for revolution.
The individual in contemporary consumer society reckons that it would be too expensive,indeed absurd,to do without the comfort and well being that this evolved society offers him ,merely for the sake of an abstract freedom.
This realisation has caused a bypassing of revolutionary Marxism,now deprived of it's original motive force,in favour of a "global protest" against the system.
But it stands under the sign of nothingness: it is a hysterical "revolution of the void of "maddening wasps trapped in a glass jar,who throw themselves frenetically against the walls".

[Man_called_sun]

Jesus, here's a blast from the past! Man Caught sight of Seldom.

Good to be back. But for good?

[Carlos J]

Just bought 'The Black Dahlia' and 'American Tabloid'. As per, one of my favourite books is this, quite a hard read with the language, but worth it:

That was a fantastic book Carlos, the fine details of prison he writes about are brutal.

Indeed, Roddy. Time for a re-read I think.

[carcinogen]

I really must start reading again. Thanks for all the post, I shall look through them.

[Carlos J]

I really must start reading again. Thanks for all the post, I shall look through them.

Good man, carc. Got some great reads from these pages.

[Royal24s]

Finally finished American Tabloid.
Quite hard work in parts but he got a lot of stuff right about JFK in terms of his shady background and dealings and the assassination .
He kind of left the question of J.D Tippet hanging in the air having brought him into the narrative very early.

[Vespa]

John Major's Autobiography and In Praise of Walking

[Carlos J]

John Major's Autobiography and In Praise of Walking

What's the Major one like, Vespa? Can't say it would be my first choice of reading.

[Vespa]

John Major's Autobiography and In Praise of Walking

What's the Major one like, Vespa? Can't say it would be my first choice of reading.

It's the best politcal autobiography I've read. Unlike every other one it doesn't go on about how great he is. It's a very honest and charming account of his time.

Shame we've lost the John Majors of the World really.

[Carlos J]

Ta. Sounds as if it might be ok.

[Vespa]

Ta. Sounds as if it might be ok.

Most political types like to make out they were the underdog. Major literally born with fuck all, had a job making garden furniture, reports it as something he just did until he landed a gig at a bank and spent a decade doing all the exams.

If that been Ed Balls, his time working in a shed making garden gnomes and time unemployed with have been paraded as his working-class roots. A bit like the Mayor of London can't resist telling you his dad was a bus driver.