Currently Reading? (contd......)

Elizabeth Haynes book was awesome btw the violence was quite graphic but it was a really good read.

American Gods - Neil Gay-Man.

Halfway trhough reading The Wine Of Youth by John fante as well. Wonderfu little collection of short stories about Italian immigrants growing up in Colorado in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Just read a really intertesting book called Go Down Together, which is about Bonnie and Clyde. Great piece of social history, masquerading as a true crime book. Interesting to note that until the (magnificent, if innaccurate) Warren Beatty film in the 60s, they were always referred to as Clyde and Bonnie, but that flick altered the public perception completely.

Now reading The Easter Parade by the wonderful Richard Yates. Not his best book by any stretch, but it's still excellent.

Just read The Dirt, the Motley Crue book. Every bit as sleazy, stupid and depraved as you'd expect. I must be getting old though. Time was I used to aspire to this kind of thing (falling out of limos, discharging yourself from hospital after a heroin OD, telling all the staff to f*ck off and going home and shooting up again, going on coke binges that lasted weeks, wrecking hotel rooms, crashing sports cars while p*ssed and high, all that jazz) but now it just makes them seem like arseholes.

Thing Vince Neill got a raw deal from the rest of the band and it was really sad that his daughter died, but Nikki Sixx sounds like a right c*nt. Tommy Lee comes across kinda okay in a total doofus kinda way but they really don't seem like very nice people.

Still, a very entertaining, trashy read for the most part and there are some great lines in there - "I had two choices. I could either kill myself, or go to Hawaii with a stripper and get over it......" Etc. Etc. Etc.

Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock.

Outrageous redneck vignettes from a writer I'd never heard of till I picked up the book. He's an excellent writer. These stories feature all the usual hillbilly stuff - so that's incest, poisonous snakes, speed, moonshine and violence then, for a start. Brutal, but absolutely f*cking hilarious, proper laugh-out-loud funny.

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Now reading The Easter Parade by the wonderful Richard Yates. Not his best book by any stretch, but it's still excellent.

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Read them both if you can. Aimz, have you read Revolutionary Road? Got a feeling you might like that one. If you can't be arsed there's a film of it with DiCaprio and Kate Winslett. Can't speak for it cos I've not seen it but the book is excellent. Horribe ending though

I'll put them on my to read list, is quite long atm though! I'd want to read the book before watching the film.

I'm currently reading

A Midsummer Tight's Dream - Louise Rennison