What I'm Reading or Have Just Read

Snowblind was great fun. "Cocaine is just the metaphor". Forsooth.

And then I read something else, which I've clean forgotten...

Then it was Louise Welsh's The Cutting Room. Which I also enjoyed a lot. Real Scottish noir. Its flaw was an unsurprising plot which left me glad to finish it.

I also enjoyed the Last King of Scotland. There was a lot going on there: getting into bad situations out of the need for adventure, complicity, being charmed out of acknowleding evil.

And last night I finished reading Wise Guy. How come I haven't read it before? (It was an old edition, the cover bearing the words "Soon to be a major film!")

Incidentally, lack of space means I have to be selective with the what books I keep. Very strict criteria regarding likelihood of need-to-refer-to in the the future. Only Wise Guy made the cut of the above books, though it was close thing for Snowblind.

Now I'm reading Thud!, to see if I can see what other people see in Discworld.

Comments

  1. MichaelSun Jan 04, 09:59:00 am GMT

    I've never read The Cutting Room but I did finish a cheap copy of Tamburlaine Must Die in two hours flat. Not bad, very readable, but nothing that stayed in the mind.

    If you're looking for something a bit different, Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe is a great read. Think Kafka, but in 1960s Japan.

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  2. Garry NixonSun Jan 04, 11:26:00 am GMT

    I'll look out for that, thanks.

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  3. MichaelMon Jan 05, 05:36:00 pm GMT

    Just found the Cutting Room in the books that ex-teachers have left behind collection at school.
    If they won't pay for my British Council library membership, I'll give it a read.

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  4. Garry NixonFri Jan 09, 09:54:00 am GMT

    Give it a go. It would lose something if you didn't know Glasgow.

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