| Author | Message | ||
     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.19.58 |
Is anyone going on the 31st Jan. I'm pretty skint but am going to try. Not sure about coming back by train on the same night though. Might stay over. http://s256537080.websitehome.co.uk/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=17&topic =1781.0 | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I was hoping to, Ally, but I'm afraid I'm skint. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I tried to buy the book from the Solaris website yesterday but couldn't see how to do so. Any clues?  | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
I was going to attend, but the credit crunch has thwarted me, too. Gary, I got the book from the Amazon.co.uk website - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poe-Ellen-Datlow/dp/184416652X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=book s&qid=1232483285&sr=8-1 £5.13, with free delivery. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.19.58 |
It's hard isn't it. The train fare will probably cost about £65ish and then there is a hotel, food and beer. I'll still keep trying to go though. York BFS Open night is on the 28th Feb now and nothing on earth is going to stop me from going to the York Brewery. Christmas was awful with all of my family being ill with viruses - perhaps I can make up with it with a pint of the Centurian's Ghost and Black Bess in York. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
York BFS Open night is on the 28th Feb now and nothing on earth is going to stop me from going to the York Brewery Is this definite, Ally? I'll be there. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.0.112.152 |
I'm going to that this time. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
I think I might treat myself to that. York's not too far in the car. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I hope to do a reading at the York thing. Btw, Steve: thanks. I've just spent 16 quid on books on Amazon. :-/ | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
What else did you get? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.19.58 |
I did my first reading at the York Brewery. It went down well. Comfortable atmosphere. Good place. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.19.58 |
Yes. Definite. It was in Prism. Did you get the mail out Gary? Mine came today. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Nope. If it doesn't turn up this week I'll have to email the BFS again... Steve - I also got Graham Joyce's new one and 1974 by David Peace. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
The Master Forger one? I keep meaning to pick that up. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Yep. It's out in paperback now. I also just preordered this dvd: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hky53gXyjX0 This is a must-see. The guy who wrote the book has been living under armed guard for over 2 years. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
I don't know anything about this film. Some of the comments on Youtube indicate it is 'sick', so it has piqued my interest.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
It's about the mafia in Naples. Unglamorised, unflinching. Written by a guy who worked in low-level jobs for them and wrote what he saw. Both book and film are meant to be amazing. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
Jeez, I thought Salman Rushdie had it bad, when he wrote The Satanic Verses... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.191.70 |
It's a very powerful film – I'd certainly recommend it. If it's 'sick' then telling the truth is sick. There's no glamourisation or titillation here, just a realistic portrayal of wealthy businessmen for whom corruption, violence and coercion are a way of life. The scene in which a business meeting takes place to plan and finance the illegal dumping of toxic waste, and the subsequent scene in which a driver accidentally splashed with acid is denied medical help, are chilling revelations of the casual brutality of corporate crime. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
Joel, I have a question for you. Would you please email me at stephenbacon(at)hotmail.co.uk? I've searched the 'net, but have been unable to find your email address. Thanks. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.58.113 |
Saw an interview about the author and the mafia on The Culture Show the other night. Really interesting. He was asked (knowing that the mafia are after him now) would he have written it in the first place? He said that the writer in him still says yes but so many problems caused. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
GOMORRAH has garnered some great film reviews and the promise of awards. Read up on it in S&S a while back, an article that really piqued my interest. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
What's the new Graham Joyce book???? | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
This is. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Memoirs-Master-Forger-William-Heaney/dp/0575082976/ref=s r_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232567995&sr=8-1 | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.14.17 |
Simon B - are you going down to London? I'm almost sure I'm going to go. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Dunno Ally. Would love to, but I don't think I'll be able to. Bugger. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.13.56 |
I've gone from going on my own (expensive on the train and the last one back is 8.30p.m). to staying over with the family (very expensive) to I don't think I can afford to go at all. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Damn! If it was the week after, I get paid then. Then again, it's also the weekend of my birthday, so I'd probably be too busy getting trolleyed on Black Bush. So it goes. Bugger, all the same. |