Any fans of Motown here? Book advice, please
Found a book called Where Did Our Love Go? The Rise And Fall Of The Motown Sound by Nelson George at the library. Has anyone read it? Is it any good?
View Article'The Slap'
Have any of you read Christos Tsiolkas' "The Slap"? According to the reviews, it's the must-read book of the summer, but 101 people (at the latest count) have gone out of their way to give it a 1 star...
View ArticleElectric Eden
It looks like Rob Young's excellent book, 'Electric Eden : Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music', has been reissued. On a wet afternoon I put together a Spotify playlist based on the books discography....
View ArticleAnyone read the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson?
I would have posted this in the Reads review section but I can't (or won't?) conform to the headings. "Should have been the definitive book on Steve Jobs The computer technology industries of Silicon...
View ArticleATM: book recommendations
Hello, hello. I'm approaching the end of Mr Kershaw's fine book and I'm thinking what next to move onto. I've got three fairly specific categories and was hoping you fine people would be able to help,...
View ArticleDon't quote me
A little warning for anybody with ambitions to write a great music-related novel - if you must then do try not to quote any actual lyrics in it. I read this interesting piece yesterday, and then the...
View ArticleWe all like an anti-hero. How about an anti-villain?
Sure, they're evil or they kill loadsa people. But hey! They're not ALL bad! I've just started on the box set of Battlestar Galactica (again!) and the new series of Justified so here are my top 2. "6"...
View ArticleLady Writers
Although I consider myself a man of catholic tastes I have noticed a dearth of female scribblers on my shelves. I have a few PD James and Kate Atkinson books but bugger all else. I thought I`d ask the...
View ArticleFill up your e-reader
A quick heads up that Amazon are having a Kindle books "Jubliee Sale" which features several Word friendly books at affordable prices. England's Dreaming, Electric Eden, How Soon is Now etc. You may...
View ArticleBook of Dreams
In a recent article in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/04/obama-presidency-cru...) I read that when a student at Harvard, Barack Obama "carried around a dog-eared copy of...
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