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steady diet of books: September 2007

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Brendan Behan - After the Wake. Brendan Behan was a mid-20th century Irish writer, and another great example of drink-sodden Irish literature. Even better, he reminds me of. The great drink-sodden exponent of Beat literature. Behan is best known as the author of Borstal Boy. An autobiographical account of his imprisonment at a young age in a English jail, and which was later adapted for the stage. After the Wake. We entered the snug. I’d my hand through the pocket of my...

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steady diet of books: November 2007

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Thursday, November 22, 2007. Don DeLillo - Underworld. Another really mammoth novel, and again this time from America. Underworld. Deserves comparison to Ulysses. A fact I mentioned. If not for any real Joycean stylings, then for a similar ambition that DeLillo brings to literature. We have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers”. Most pointed of all, is the description of the New York Times – perhaps since the city ...

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steady diet of books: Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums (a return)

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums (a return). I haven't been here for a while, as writing about music proved a lot easier and I guess more immediately and communally satisfying. However, now that I've further developed my Hardcore for Nerds output into. It seems a good time to come back to this my original blog - which was meant to be my internet niche. S first novel, Americana. 1971), and wondering why it's so uncannily similar to Mad Men. Today's posting on Tumblr focused on a s...

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steady diet of books: Terry Pratchett - Hogfather extract (Pt. II)

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Tuesday, December 25, 2007. Terry Pratchett - Hogfather extract (Pt. II). In the glittering, clattering, chattering atmosphere a head waiter was having a difficult time. There were a lot of people in, and the staff should have been fully stretched, putting bicarbonate of soda into the white wine to make very expensive bubbles and cutting the vegetables very small in order to make them cost more. Instead they were standing in a dejected group in the kitchen. 8216;Where did it all go? 8216;Old boots…...

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steady diet of books: August 2007

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Saturday, August 25, 2007. Flann O'Brien - The Dalkey Archive. Hopefully I can keep this post a good deal shorter than the Knut Hamsun review – the trouble is, classic novels seem to have a symbiotic relationship with long, semi-academic introductions. However, Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive. Part travelling in the shadow of Joyce, part mired in his own bitterness and cynicism, his body of work nevertheless still stands out as some of the freshest and most original parts of Irish literature. Which re...

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steady diet of books: January 2008

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Sunday, January 6, 2008. Flann O'Brien - The Third Policeman. Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. Is - at least currently - likely the most recognized of the Irish humorist's novels. It holds a more glamorous reputation than that of the. And is less achingly literary and somewhat more sensible than his acclaimed debut, At Swim-Two-Birds. What part of that reputation comes from its association with the TV show Lost. And The Dalkey Archive. From that point on, The Third Policeman. Was played as a detectiv...

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steady diet of books: Phaedrus vs. Omar Khayyám (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, revisited)

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Saturday, November 10, 2007. Phaedrus vs. Omar Khayyám (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, revisited). Now with Pt.III). I’m a great believer in intertextuality… I love making comparisons; or rather, connections. As the quote goes, “Only connect”. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. That is why I feel the need to add a little more around the bare bones of the original post. I’ve already put up some pictures of a certain other motorcycle road trip on my other (music) blog:. He doesn’t...

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steady diet of books: Terry Pratchett - Hogfather extract (Pt. 1)

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Monday, December 24, 2007. Terry Pratchett - Hogfather extract (Pt. 1). Sky One, 8.00-10 PM, 24-25th December. The beggars stopped singing, except for Arnold Sideways, who tended to live in his own small world. 8216;- nobody knows how good we can live, on boots three times a day…’. Then the change in the air penetrated even his consciousness. 8216;It just ain’t that simple, master, that’s all I’m saying-’. IT IS BETTER TO GIVE THAN TO RECEIVE, ALBERT. Things rained on the snow. 8216;Ah, humbugs? And&#823...

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steady diet of books: Flann O'Brien - The Dalkey Archive

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Saturday, August 25, 2007. Flann O'Brien - The Dalkey Archive. Hopefully I can keep this post a good deal shorter than the Knut Hamsun review – the trouble is, classic novels seem to have a symbiotic relationship with long, semi-academic introductions. However, Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive. Part travelling in the shadow of Joyce, part mired in his own bitterness and cynicism, his body of work nevertheless still stands out as some of the freshest and most original parts of Irish literature. Which re...