Spiritualized

moop wrote:just finished reading Albert Hofmann's 'lsd: my problem child'
amazing stuff! (thanks to semisynthetic who i think recommended this)

spzretent wrote:I have been reading Nick Kent's Apathy For The Devil. Each chapter is a year in the 70's in chronological order.

redcloud wrote:Picked up a copy of Mick Farren's "Give The Anarchist A Cigarette" for .50 cents! I needed a good book and I saw this at the perfect place, perfect price, perfect time!

BVCP206 wrote:Just watched Only Lovers Left Alive, interesting take on the vampire theme about a troubled reclusive musician who happens to be a vampire and his lover. A good story a lot of which is based in his studio which is full of old equipment and guitars etc. Certainly worth a look if only for that

One other member of the board may like to know that some of it is set in Detroit

sunray wrote:Picked up a copy of The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson for the princely sum of €1 today in a local charity shop. It's in superb condition too.
It's well over twenty years since I last had a copy and i've forgotten pretty much all of it, so will be interesting to see what i make of it now.
Curiously, the detective is named Saul Goodman

Jolly Lad is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour – especially regarding music
and art.

Juliet, Naked is the story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.

sunray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:10 pm Bad Wisdom by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp).

Have wanted to read this for years but could never find an affordable copy online so had the brainwave to check the library database (been using this a lot since Christmas, reading loads ) and there it was. Major disappointment. Took me the first chapter to get used to the story alternating between the two writers, which is fair enough. The problem is Manning's writing resembles nothing more than the outpourings of a teenage lit. student wanker attempting to shock. Sure, he has a good turn of phrase and imaginative descriptors but it's so OTT and relentless that it never shocks, repulses or even raises a laugh. It's just incredibly tedious. Should have just left the whole thing to Drummond.
I won't be reading the sequel and i'll certainly be avoiding any of Manning's books.

I have been making my way through the books of John Niven that i don't already own. Now, there's a man that can write. I highly recommend his latest 'Oh Brother'; poignant, moving, grim and very funny. It's also his first non-fiction book.

Ammuniti0n Train wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:03 am

sunray wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:10 pm Bad Wisdom by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning (Zodiac Mindwarp).

Have wanted to read this for years but could never find an affordable copy online so had the brainwave to check the library database (been using this a lot since Christmas, reading loads ) and there it was. Major disappointment. Took me the first chapter to get used to the story alternating between the two writers, which is fair enough. The problem is Manning's writing resembles nothing more than the outpourings of a teenage lit. student wanker attempting to shock. Sure, he has a good turn of phrase and imaginative descriptors but it's so OTT and relentless that it never shocks, repulses or even raises a laugh. It's just incredibly tedious. Should have just left the whole thing to Drummond.
I won't be reading the sequel and i'll certainly be avoiding any of Manning's books.

I have been making my way through the books of John Niven that i don't already own. Now, there's a man that can write. I highly recommend his latest 'Oh Brother'; poignant, moving, grim and very funny. It's also his first non-fiction book.

I have O Brother on order after reading John Niven's liner notes on a Butcher Boy album.
Only other writing of his that I've read was a short story in a fund raising book for victims of Grenfell Tower. Will look into his other books now .... cheers!