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THE ZONE IN BETWEEN: A HIDDEN ROCK & ROLL GENRE

The Batlord

Whether or not I buy this argument this article will be my playlist for at least the next 24 hours. Hadn't heard Zero Boys before and they're ****ing massive.

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DianneW

I feel like that about Wishbone Ash..WTFWI somewhere over the rainbow I guess. So enjoying them now though...never too late to catch up when you have missed a massive band or just one that did not get the recognition they should have....

The Batlord

Yes we all know your useless, pretentious ideas about punk subgenres.

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goldendoodle

The Book of Enoch (found a translation I liked better) and The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography by Virginia Burrus (just downloaded), which I trust will be highly entertaining.

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Trollheart

Struggled through The Lizard King (did not come out with any better an impression of Morrison than I had going in, if anything a worse one) then she wanted to hear about Joan of Arc, but as expected once they burned her (Joan not Karen) she lost interest so we ditched that, headed back to Dickenstown and we're now firmly lodged in Barnaby Rudge. Not literally. Enjoying it immensely already. Viva Dickens!

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Lisnaholic

That was my experience with BK too. I got fed up with how Dostoyevski, when he introduced a character, would takes us back to the guy's grandfather's parents. Not only was it dull, but it gave the strong impression that Dostoyevski was buying into some Russian caste system: is this person of good family or not? Still, it's a book with a huge reputation, so perhaps I was doing Dostoyevski an injustice.

If I may ask, Trollheart, do you read books outloud to your sister? That would be a nice, old-fashioned thing to be doing.

Yep, a really excellent play. Not that I've read it, but have seen two productions of it on tv.
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Travel writing is a genre I really enjoy, and I just finished Long Way Round:-



Two guys on bikes ride from London, across Asia to Alaska, then across the US to New York and thus home, hopping over The Pond.

This isn't a particularly good example of the genre. I found it very light in several ways: the writing style, the depth of research into places visited, and the hardship endured. I'm not saying that I could ride a heavy BMW all day on gravel tracks as they sometimes did, but these guys don't get lost, snowed in for months and end up eating each other - so, a disappointing book in that regard.

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"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953

Marie Monday

I didn't get the impression Dostoyevsky is more class-conscious than the average Russian of his time. But I totally understand getting fed up with him; he's a self-indulgent (and melodramatic) writer who should probably have taken a deep breath every now and then to calm down and properly refine and structure what he has been writing down. Underneath that mess he's brilliant though

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Trollheart

Oh yeah. Because her eyes are so bad now she can't read for herself (plus her short term memory is not great) so we tried a lot of things years ago, including an ingenious scanner machine that scanned pages and then read them out to you but it was like HE-CAME-IN-THE-GAR-DEN-AND-LOOKED-UP-AT-THE-WIN-DOW... Very mechanical and boring, plus it was literally the size of one of those old computer scanners so it took up a lot of space. Then I considered audio books but there wasn't much of the sort of thing she likes, and anyway it depends on who's reading. Thought about recording my voice for her then finally advanced the possibility of reading for her. At first she thought no, it's like being a child again and being read stories, and the she must have thought, well no actually, it's more like being a child again and being read stories!

So it works very well. Gets me reading more, entertains her and it also gives her the option to ask if she doesn't understand, hear or agree with something in the book. It's thanks to her that I've been able to get into Dickens, as I doubt I would have - with the best intentions in the world - have got round to doing it myself. Also helps to pass the time when she's in hospital. She told me that once or twice other visitors in the ward, and patients, had been listening to me and thought it was really nice that I was reading for her.

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