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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Elonex eTouch Android tablet for just 90 Pounds | Good E-Reader Blog - Electronic Reader and Tablet PC News
Elonex eTouch Android tablet for just £90 | Good E-Reader Blog - Electronic Reader and Tablet PC NewsLooks good. Maybe big sales in UK will lead to North American Sales.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Martin Amis - Dead Babies
Nasty pointless lives snuffed out. Similar in theme to London Fields. This time the characters are a mix of upper class twits, American ex-hippie freaks, a dwarf, and a street-urchin-turned Lothario.
They spend the weekend in a 'country house' outside of London to experiment with drugs and sex and booze and have a good time. Things turn from rotten to rottenest to death.
Martin is apparently a master at flawed characters. All of the characters have serious flaws and the mix of these rotten characters over the weekend turns into surreal ugliness.
With an ugly ending, this story is disturbing and unsatisfying.
I've got to read something light to get Dead Babies out of my mind. The tone is of sad, inevitable death and dissolution among all these characters. With no redeeming acts (except perhaps for the dwarf) to give any hope in this story, one must have a strong constitution not to be affected by this book.
I had hoped that there would be some humour in his books, but it is all far too dark.
They spend the weekend in a 'country house' outside of London to experiment with drugs and sex and booze and have a good time. Things turn from rotten to rottenest to death.
Martin is apparently a master at flawed characters. All of the characters have serious flaws and the mix of these rotten characters over the weekend turns into surreal ugliness.
With an ugly ending, this story is disturbing and unsatisfying.
I've got to read something light to get Dead Babies out of my mind. The tone is of sad, inevitable death and dissolution among all these characters. With no redeeming acts (except perhaps for the dwarf) to give any hope in this story, one must have a strong constitution not to be affected by this book.
I had hoped that there would be some humour in his books, but it is all far too dark.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Martin Amis - London Fields
A peculiar book that concentrates on three 'bathetic' characters that are watched by a novelist who documents their twisted lives and a 'preordained' conclusion to their relationship. The writer is in fact the fourth 'bathetic' character and the novel within a novel approach is well crafted by Amis. And the surprise ending is quite effective.
The themes of the nasty pointless lives of the lower class metropolitan London class, the 'world crisis', and class differences is played well against the plight of the writer in the story. All the major characters are well crafted and rather unique in the dimensions they fill.
I wanted to read a 'British' novel with some dry humour for a change of pace and I got some very dark, cynical humour indeed. Apparently some of Amis's favourite themes are babies, physics, and perhaps the mundanity of man's darkest desires. I particularly enjoyed the British darts theme, as opposed to the typical football sub-text found in British novels. Amis portrayed the London criminal class and the multi-ethnicity of that world quite well.
The themes of the nasty pointless lives of the lower class metropolitan London class, the 'world crisis', and class differences is played well against the plight of the writer in the story. All the major characters are well crafted and rather unique in the dimensions they fill.
I wanted to read a 'British' novel with some dry humour for a change of pace and I got some very dark, cynical humour indeed. Apparently some of Amis's favourite themes are babies, physics, and perhaps the mundanity of man's darkest desires. I particularly enjoyed the British darts theme, as opposed to the typical football sub-text found in British novels. Amis portrayed the London criminal class and the multi-ethnicity of that world quite well.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
David Forrest - And to my Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game
AND TO MY NEPHEW ALBERT I LEAVE THE ISLAND WHAT I WON OFF FATTY HAGAN IN A POKER GAME...
is probably the longest title of a novel I've ever seen. A humorous British novel set in the sixties cold war. An island off the coast of Britain (in the Scillies) is occupied by American and Russian soldiers and they learn to get along and have a good time.
The inheritor of the island, a young British man, suffers the trials of trying to get his girlfriend into the sack while stranded on the island with the soldiers and the girl's father.
Quite funny. Not very in-depth in terms of character. Nor is there much interesting in the way of a plot. Views into the ignorant silliness happening in the rest of the world was quite enjoyable. The fuzzy-headed British PM was especially funny.
Well worth the read.
is probably the longest title of a novel I've ever seen. A humorous British novel set in the sixties cold war. An island off the coast of Britain (in the Scillies) is occupied by American and Russian soldiers and they learn to get along and have a good time.The inheritor of the island, a young British man, suffers the trials of trying to get his girlfriend into the sack while stranded on the island with the soldiers and the girl's father.
Quite funny. Not very in-depth in terms of character. Nor is there much interesting in the way of a plot. Views into the ignorant silliness happening in the rest of the world was quite enjoyable. The fuzzy-headed British PM was especially funny.
Well worth the read.
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