BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Non FictionI do love to read - if all I have to hand is a cornflakes packet I'll read the sodding barcode if there's nothing else to look at - but I will confess to being a more 'factual with pretty pictures' than a literary sort. I know what the classics are, just never appealed to me. Mind you, for similar reasons I can't watch black and white films either so not sure what that says about me (probably that I'm a nerd)..
So with that caveat two non-fictions I have really enjoyed in the past year that stand out from my bookshelves..
Shadowplayers - The Rise and Fall of Factory Records (James Nice). Even if you are not a fan of New Order/Joy Division, the Mondays etc.. the Factory records story is still hugely entertaining and this is one of the best books about it that I have read to date. (Slightly O/T but did anyone go to see NO at the Troxy beofre xmas? Great stuff).
Racing the Beam (Montfort and Bogost). Early Atari story for those who know what a raster scan is.
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DeadEyeDick, Sat 7 Jan 2012, 10:45,
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Wasn't hugely impressed with Shadowplayers TBHThere's a lot of interesting material in there, but the narrative is rabidly "Factory would have been much better if they'd stuck with Stockholm Monsters and Minny Pops rather than ruining themselves with the Happy Mondays". I think James Nice is the only person in the entire world who actually liked the FBN releases, apart from the obscure Joy Division/Duruttis cast-offs they released now and then. (Actually the best DC album ever was a late release on Crepuscule, but I digress...)
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