Just a quick update

[dotinthesky]

I finished reading Marylin Manson's biography today. What a nerd.

I'm in Maida Vale's library. Borrow 4 books and get 1 DVD rental for free. Thrillers are easy to read and fun. Stephen King sucks and is living proof that anyone can get published.

I might try to hand a CD to next week's Big Brother evictee. I can see a giant Companion to the Bible nearby.

Even if Michael Moore had made a movie about throwing darts at a picture of Alfred E. Newman George Bush, it would still be a masterpiece worthy of 16 Oscars. I haven't seen the movie yet, but in the great Rightwing tradition I already have an opinion on it.

Go me!

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[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

I finished reading Marylin Manson's biography today. What a nerd.


Yup. :) Good book though. I enjoyed it more than most rock biographies - he's an engaging writer.

Thrillers are easy to read and fun.

Yeah I like thrillers too - they're nice every now and then, though a steady diet of them would kill my brain. I just read a pretty cool one last week actually, "The Tunnel Rats" by Stephen Leather... Predictable but sharply written, action-packed and with a nice, original premise that borders on the absurd but just about works. I enjoyed it anyway.

Have you read anything by Michael Connelly? He's my favourite purveyor of does-what-it-says-on-the-tin thrillers. His 'Harry Bosch' series of detective novels are awesome. He's got the form of mystery writing down to a fine art - his books are maybe quite 'samey' in structure, but always a pleasure to read and with a good twist at the end.

Stephen King sucks and is living proof that anyone can get published.

Yes, he appears to be writing HIMSELF in as a character in his "Dark Tower" fantasy series, last thing I heard...

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Stephen King as a character?! Lol! He's starting to scrape the barrel.

I've never read Connelly but my library has tons of his books - I'll check them out. I'm a big crime genre fan.

And the Manson bio was very fun to read. He has a way with good one-liners.

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

A good Connelly book to start with is "The Concrete Blonde" - it's the third in the Harry Bosch series, so you miss a little of the characterisation from the first two ("The Black Echo"'s the first, but probably also the weakest in the series and "The Black Ice" is the second - solid, but not as dark or as gripping as "The Concrete Blonde")... If you like that, the one after it, "The Last Coyote" is even stronger, but probably not a good one to start on - you'll see what I mean if you get round to reading both of them..

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Cool... ok, I'll get that one out next Saturday.