tuck everlasting by natatlie babbit
awesome book sucky movie.
story about a family that lives forever

The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts

I concur.

I saw a book in a music shop recently called Pride and Prejudice... and Zombies. Now that looked like quality literature.

Just ordered these...

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Simon Reynolds was one of my favourite writers for Melody Maker back in the day so these should be good.

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Like a lot of anthologies I've read, it's a case of the truly inspirational bits being outweighed by a whole lot of pretentious drivel so far.

you won't regret picking that up, i bought it for a music student as a birthday gift and it inspired the topic of their dissertation; it is just compelling and somehow he manages to cover everybody without dwelling too long... the concepts behind the art laid bare

I'm trying to get hold of his first book Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock which is basically a collection of his 80s Melody Maker essays, put out in 1990 on some small publisher.

Thankfully it's not as in demand as something like Julian Cope's Krautrock book. $30 for almost mint copy sounds pretty reasonable to me.

yeah he's a great writer, if you can get hold of the 'Energy Flash' book about rave/dance music that will destroy all your preconceptions (assuming you have them)... be wary though because I got the new edition last year and unlike the 1999 one it didn't come with the CD.. being able to hear the music (and preferably to have eaten some E at some point) is sort of integral, maybe.
Actually Kayleigh should be reading that one.

Reynolds' blogs, one of them contains scans of old articles.

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It's pretty good so far. I just finished up Misery last week and saw the movie.