Soho in the 50s, Daniel Farson

Although mainly a photobook, the text gives a great account of the whole Francis Bacon/Colony Room set. After reading this, anyone who thinks the Factory in the 60s was a trial by fire should've tried to hold their own with this lot.

Even if you don't buy into Bacon's gutter-glamour thing, still some brilliant photographs to look at

My third attempt. I'm about 120 pages deep. I actually get the mistaken identity/mistaken clothing thing this time. It's all about how the people are the same and meaningless...or something.

and Huey Lewis.

I tried to read Vachss but couldn't deal with his ultra-self-righteousness. He's like a Noir-Henry Rollins.

there is a great fucking book inside that cover

For what is really an autobiographical
fantasy based on the author's previous
decades' experience with Hollywood really
doesn't seem like a great premise for a 691
page novel and yet, reading it again a few years
later it is still better than I remembered.
Obviously it was good if I managed to
finish it the first time around

again, cause sad:

before i forget: i read this one while i was in the states

was entertaining and a very easy read

for the 10th + time

this is killing me

I really want this book:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...t-9112523.html

The Top 10 Most Difficult Books

http://parade.condenast.com/266106/v...the-50-states/

"New York
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee
Sarah Silverman"

HAHAHA
(loved that book though. sarah <3 )

Meh.. more like some kind of Echo Park pissing contest.






I know I'm like 20 years too late but I never got around to reading
this until I found it on the $0.50 book rack at the library across the
street from work (I think I've bought like 50 books from them now,
and spent what must be a grand total of $20, I have literally nowhere
to put them, I got unread books stacked in about every corner of my
room, closet, drawers, and nook and cranny of my MacArthur Park
district overcrowded book shelf)...

This novel is epic. Its like a shoe-gaze Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.. more emotive,
with more droning teeth saturated through its cutting, poetic insights. You can
literally feel this text bleeding through the almost arbitrariness of the words..

This reminds me of Cabinet portrait, a novel by Swiss author Jean-Luc Benoziglio.
The narrator's been asked to leave his place as he's divorcing. He finds a new apartment which is too small for him to stash every volume of his encyclopedia.
He uses the restroom that every tenant shares to pack them (apparently it has more space for that) and spends too much time there to be appreciated by the other folks.
That could have been an idea...
It's really well written, I really don't know if it's ever been translated to whatever language it could have.
The guy received an award for the book in France. And went on a 6 year drought after that (it ain't my favorite, though: Beno s'en va-t-en guerre pleased me even more: tourists wonder whether leaving the lovely island they're staying at as the premices of a war arise - the treatment of the story is brilliant, we're stuck with them and they really can't see much from their little port).

Currently ending Tough Guys Don't Dance.
I cut a picture in a tv programme years ago. It was from Norman Mailer's movie from his book. That picture was beautiful. But the movie is nowhere to be seen, and is apparently so-so.
I like the writing.

Ben Marcus - Leaving the Sea
Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
Garry Kasparov - How Life Imitates Chess

Re-Make/Re-Model: Becoming Roxy Music - Michael Bracewell
Read & Burn: A Book About Wire - Wilson Neate
A Very Irregular Head: The Life Of Syd Barrett - Rob Chapman