I’ll definitely have posted about that at some point. Easily the best piece of KLF-related art not by them. Seems there’s a new version with unnecessary extra bits, but the original book is truly brilliant.
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I thought maybe you’d posted it but honestly can’t trust my memory anymore. Searching turned up nowt.
Great book.
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John Higgs was absolutely the best person to do it. He goes right into why the KLF did the things they did, and the background to those motivations. Rather than the usual wide-eyed confusion.
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Just ordered this for my daughter, she loves traitors and Agatha Christie 
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I’ve read White Teeth by Zadie Smith and On Beauty which is great and I really recommend it. I may even re-read it, as I first read it 15-20 years ago while at uni in Sheffield. I might now get NW second hand when I get paid.
Currently reading Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky, trying not to lose my French now I’m not getting much translation in.
What are other people reading?
The Midnight Gang by David Walliams(sp?). To my daughter. It’s acceptable. Bad Dad by him was so bad we fucked that one off about 1/3rd the way through.
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White Teeth is great
Currently reading or re-reading a ton of Stephen King. He does creepy so well. Not even necessarily horror sometimes, it’s like he invented a genre of just creepy stuff that makes your skin crawl. Love it.
Reading Under the Dome right now which is awesome
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Just dug out my copy of White Teeth, going to re-read it as I can’t remember the plot as it’s been ages since I last read it.
You might enjoy Roald Dahl’s short stories as I remember them being pretty dark.
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. It’s a diary of a cross America camper van road trip undertaken by Steinbeck and his dog Charley. I started it on the weekend and have raced on through it. It’s a great read and is making me get itchy feet.
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i’m trying to read more classics so i’m halfway through Tess of the D’urbervilles, its really good but i seem to be taking forever with it. not a negative thing i guess.
Thought I’d fire this thread up.
Just finished The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier - really really good and interesting concept if there were two of you!
Any recommendations?
Read this again the other day in one sitting.
Enjoyable to some degree - kind of left me wanting more though
Currently reading this after it being suggested by a colleague at work. Very good.
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Just checked it out and it looks interesting. I’ve just ordered a copy for a fiver from World of Books.
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Definitely worth it. Nothing you won’t already know about what the author calls the ‘corpocracy’ but interesting to hear from one of the people tasked with pursuing US interests by the back door.
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Need to reread Bukowski. I always take away what a total arsehole he is but I guess thats the appeal
That looks good.
I read Viv Albertine’s (of The Slits) autobiography recently - that too was great.
I’ve been reading Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge series.
You sometimes get these big multi-generational sagas where lots of stuff happens over 50 years or more. This is like that on steroids: 5 novels, each around a thousand pages long, with the action spread over a thousand years from the Saxon age to the 1800s.
All of which sounds totally long-winded and tedious, except they’re complete page-turners. I’m on the last one and finding it hard to put it down.
It’s no accident Follett’s books have sold some 200 million copies and spawned multiple TV adaptations.
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