Hey guys, my cousin published a book last year and I made an animated trailor for it. It's his first book.

It's about a guy who gets tired of office life in Canada and moves to Europe. Once he meets the monkey the entire story becomes hilariously absurd. I wouldn't say it's a great book, but it's a good first book. He's drafting his second book about his father's crazy true life adventures as a Mennonite growing up in the Soviet Union.

If you could let me know what you think of the book trailer I made that be great, and what would be even better is if you read my cousin's book and help out an aspiring writer. Cheers!

Six Bosnian Marks - by John Friesen
https://youtu.be/ncW2t22_Z0A

Revival
Stephen King

So far so very good

I AM BRIAN WILSON - Dude's crazy.

GOOD VIBRATIONS: MY LIFE AS BEACH BOY - Mike Love - Dude's just as crazy, but can do a fair impression of a normal person, so most people don't notice. He divides his time between transcendental meditation and being a complete asshole.

CHAPTER AND VERSE - Bernard Sumner - Some amusing anecdotes, but not the most introspective guy. An entertaining but shallow read.

i tried reading a thick book about mushroom identification but it was too heavy. i need something more basic. like, mycology for morons, or something.

i'm not a moron (or maybe i am), but since i can only give this a tiny portion of my attention (too busy learning to play video games) i need something really easy to assimilate in this area. already saw the mushroom documentary in telluride etc.

maybe wikipedia is where to start.

so, I finished that Chirbes book, it was really good. Now I find out not only is he no longer living, but that there are not many of his books that have been translated, so that leaves me out.....

I'm still reading the weird sci-fi series by Ann Leckie about the millennia-old android soldier that I was talking up a while ago. The second book (Ancillary Sword) was nowhere near as good as the first (Ancillary Justice), but there is still just a shit ton of weirdness and bizarre plot developments that make it a worthy thing. About to start the third book and I think its set-up is promising. When a series spans a couple thousand years and the main character is a piece of a fractured consciousness fighting both an evil empire and an alien race that preys on all things, it better goddamn well end on a high note.

I also read The Revenant by Michael Punke. I'd skimmed it a few months ago, and found the story and narrative to be pretty interesting, so I grabbed a copy at Target for a few bucks and read the whole thing. I haven't seen the movie and have no real desire to, but the book is short and well-written. A nice way to kill off a Sunday afternoon.

The last thing I read in 2016 was Locke & Key 1. Really enjoyed that and looking forward to getting the second volume soon. Right now though the first thing I started yesterday was Jerry Stahl's Bad Sex on Speed.

Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys - Lol Tolhurst

Cure fans will like it, but then Cure fans probably know everything already. Some funny scenes involving urination and he seems like a cool dude. Damn near nothing about the music. Made me yearn for a memoir from Smith.

Set the Boy Free - Johnny Marr

Considering how much I was looking forward to this, a bit of a disappointment. I didn't really get any new insights into how he created the Smiths music. Very, very little about Morrissey. And after a while the book becomes a "I did this, then did that" sort of thing. Also, he's not much of a prose stylist. Hell of a nice fellow, though.

It made me flip through Morrissey's book, if only for some well-written sentences. Turns out Moz and Marr differ on a few historical facts. Marr says he and Andy Rourke landed the Rough Trade contract. Moz says he was there, not Andy. ???

Not Dead Yet - Phil Collins

Why not? A charming, self-effacing man who can tell a good story. But again, not much about the music. Maybe that's for the best. Still, I wonder how on earth he (de-)volved in that area. The book ends with the promise of a comeback, so that's a thrill.

There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll - Lisa Robinson

A journalist trusted by John and Yoko as well as Dr. Dre. High quality gossip. The larger than life characters actually become human after awhile. Impressive stuff.

Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? - Steven Tyler

Are you kidding? You're fucking with me, right? I picked this up as a lark and dammit, it's one of the most entertaining things I've read in awhile. I almost hate myself for how much I like this book.

Steven fucking Tyler wrote a fantastic book. A better one than Johnny Marr. Unbelievable. But true.

Alan Moore - Jerusalem
http://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2017/0...-contains.html

Great review, Rob. Sounds like a total head fuck of a book.

it is indeed. shit twisted my melon man. Thanks for reading.

Yeah, great review Rob. I tried reading Jerusalem before but gave up quite early into it. Your review's inspired me to give it another try.

I sent a copy along with a handwritten letter to Alan Moore care of hs publisher. Alan Moore does not do the internets.

At the moment this... along with a couple, y'know, actual books. But this is what I'm super pumped about, since it just came in the mail today.



Volume 1 of Walter Simonson's epic run on MARVEL's The Mighty Thor. He started out as an illustrator only, but took over chief writing duties for this long running series, and the result is generally considered one of the greatest creative runs in comic book history. Almost unanimously believed to be the "definitive" Thor. Like Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.'s work on "Daredevil: the Man Without Fear", Simonson's take on Thor is the high water mark for the character. I know Thor's kind of B-list (a bit... you know he is) in terms of comic book characters, and is in many ways just an extremely unoriginal answer to Superman, but I have only heard amazing things about this "book" (goes on forever), and I've been trying to get more into MARVEL back-stories and break my habit of reading all-DC-all-the-time.

I can already tell the scope of this story is massive. It has space opera elements, fantasy/mythological elements, and spans the Seven Realms, "Heaven," deep space and the streets of New York City in 1983. So. Yeah. Sounds fairly fucking epic so far.

I also read smart guy stuff though!

impressive review robigator

good to see you interested in "provincial" british topics now :D :D :D

for class....