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& another thing
"If you go home with somebody & they don't have books, don't fuck them!"
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Leeches
"A dream uninterpreted is like a letter unread."
This sentence, gnomic & frustrating, pregnant with foreboding, teasing on the cusp of meaning, recurs again & again in the novel Leeches, by the Serbian David Albahari. By turns frustrating, oneiric, frightening & blackly, bleakly hilarious, this deadpan trip into the dark of 90s Belgrade reads like ( Read more... ) -
Cuntingly Stupid, Volume Three
Four Funerals & My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (what? What?), or, Manni Nix Kekker Rokke:
Roman à clef (or should that be Roma à clef? No? Suit yourself) following a frantic, comic & entirely stereotype-free six months in the life of {trying not to name one of my actual cousins}, a failing writer, as he shares the ups, the downs, & the, er, in- ( Read more... ) -
Why is it...
...that I find my thoughts turning more & more to ritual human sacrifice? -
Cuntingly Stupid, Volume Two
Politically Correct, or, Fear the Other:
Steve Dave is a happy, lager-swilling plumber from Essex, a true Everyman for the post-Nick Hornby generation. He enjoys football, lager, tits, naked birds, spending quality time with his kids & the BBC's Top Gear television programme. One day, when called in to repair a leaking pipe in the Gents at his ( Read more... ) -
Cuntingly Stupid
From now until I can no longer be bothered, I shall be writing mock(?) synopses (that doesn't look right. Synopsises? Whatever) for my forthcoming novel, & posting them here. If one of them amuses me enough, I might get off my fat arse & write one. This isn't any kind of popularity contest, as no-one reads this anyway, but I thought it would waste ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the day
"You see, their supporters are composed mostly of the long-term unemployed, fat people, alcoholics, wearers of tracksuits & shoppers at Matalan. The Master Race, basically..."
-- A Friend, on the type of person who's attracted to the EDL. -
If only I'd listened
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."
- Nelson Algren, "A Walk On The Wild Side".
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