You should be lynched for that…
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No-need to get all strung-up about it…
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Looking forward to getting into this. Will cause prosaic red blooded Englishmen to go into full scoff mode. Keyboard culture warriors’ heads will explode like the guy in Scanners.
Just finished this, which was fascinating, I’d not heard of Gordievsky.
I was a little sceptical about the dramatisation - I worry when reading that sort of thing that some historical felicity gets removed in the presentation of a good story, but I liked how in the afterword, he included some of the feedback he’d gotten, included where people felt events were different to how he presented them (which seemed to be pretty minor). I’ll definitely be reading more of his books.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Traitor-Greatest-Espionage-Story/dp/024118665X
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But first am onto this, for something a bit different. I can’t decide whether I like it or he’s another overhyped modern American author.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-York-Trilogy-Paul-Auster-ebook/dp/B002RI91IU?ref_=ast_author_mpb
That’s a great book. Sadly, Auster died earlier this year.
I’ve just been reading about his life - all quite crazy with a lot of misfortune.
Keep an eye out for this.
A collection of true life tales submitted to a NPR radio show by it’s listeners.
One of my all-time favourite books.
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We’re heading to Manchester* next weekend and I’ve just realised that my current reading matter looks more like a statement of intent.
WHAT DO WE WANT?
BEER AND ARCHITECTURE!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT?
BUUURRRRRP, ooh, pardon me, sorry about that.
* actually for a party for the 50th birthday of a friend’s wife
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Seeing this thread pop-up reminds me I’m coming to the end of this:
“A Boy Called Mary - Kris Kirk’s Greatest Hits” by Richard Smith - a compendium of some of the best of the late KK’s music journalism.
It’s been a great read, but a mystery surrounds it - at the second Scalford (2008?), someone visited my room and thrust a brand-new copy of it into my confused hands and said “I think you’ll enjoy this!”, and disappeared.
I never did know who that was, but if he’s one of you lot - thanks, you were right, and please make yourself known, I’ve been a mite slow to properly thank you 
Have you read this?
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Nup, I don’t read much about music (…dancing about architecture…), hence why it took me sixteen years to get around to this one, but must admit it sounds like a worthwhile read; have you?
Yes. From that article it sounds like I read it when it came out. I remember enjoying the whole gonzo journalism thing, but I was 21, it might not have aged well.
At the time I was reading stuff like that, and Charles Bukowski. God only knows where I was getting my reading tips 
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Saw this in a graphic design and magazine shop today.
but it’s a huge heavy bastard and there’s no way I’m lugging it back to London.
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This is very good and not as depressing as it may seem, Kureishi uses writing to keep sane after his devastating accident
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This is an excellent if somewhat US centric look at records and record collectors. This edition published 1998, so no internet shenanigans.
