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781Cherie Nutting with Paul Bowles, Yesterday's Perfume. What little Bowles says about himself in here is more than what he says in his entire autobiography probably. In here we learn why.
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782Ruland's Corporate Rock Sucks - The Rise and Fall of SST Records.
Recommended.
Recommended.
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Nice. The man who recorded the last ever Islamic call the prayer that wasn't electrified in Morocco, and a great writer. I lived there for a year.enframed wrote: Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:47 pm Cherie Nutting with Paul Bowles, Yesterday's Perfume. What little Bowles says about himself in here is more than what he says in his entire autobiography probably. In here we learn why.
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784I started reading The Master and Margarita, but bailed about 1/3 of the way through. Didn't hold my interest enough, and was hard trying to figure out who's who.
Now reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Now reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad.
"Whatever happened to that album?"
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
"I broke it, remember? I threw it against the wall and it like, shattered."
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785I finished it, but it was a slog; I didn't like the writing style. I guess I can see why it's popular with intellectuals though.zircona1 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:36 am I started reading The Master and Margarita, but bailed about 1/3 of the way through. Didn't hold my interest enough, and was hard trying to figure out who's who.
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786This is one of the only books on my shelf I never finished, and it has sat there for 20 years.zircona1 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:36 am I started reading The Master and Margarita, but bailed about 1/3 of the way through. Didn't hold my interest enough, and was hard trying to figure out who's who.
Now reading Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad.
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787A book called Wild Recovery: How Bushcraft and the Outdoors Have Impacted My Sobriety, written by a friend of mine. It's good. My partner read it first and it was a bit more pertinent to her journey, you might say.
"And the light, it burns your skin...in a language you don't understand."
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788i've never got round to this but Emerald City, her first collection of short stories? god, i adored that book.
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789I totally loved that bookenframed wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:22 amI finished it, but it was a slog; I didn't like the writing style. I guess I can see why it's popular with intellectuals though.zircona1 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 8:36 am I started reading The Master and Margarita, but bailed about 1/3 of the way through. Didn't hold my interest enough, and was hard trying to figure out who's who.
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790Waiting to be collected at the library:
Also in the offing:Pitchfork's reviewer wrote:Burning Down the Haus deftly chronicles the formation of East Germany’s punk scene within a fragmented country under constant monitoring by a secret police agency, the Stasi. In the broadest possible strokes, the book resembles the archetypal punk narratives that have been documented across the globe: a scrappy group of young people creates their own sound and pushes back against a repressive government. In the case of Burning Down the Haus, though, the ways in which this narrative eludes expectations help it to stand out among similar histories. This isn’t simply a transposition of, say, Simon Reynolds’ post-punk history, Rip It Up and Start Again, from the UK to East Germany. This is a work that encapsulates a particular musical world but, more crucially, shows how the society around it shaped the scene in idiosyncratic ways.
Gang of Four's Facebook page wrote:Jon King's memoir "To Hell with Poverty" coming off the press, ready for publication on April 3rd!