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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.156.32.78
| Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 07:52 pm: | |
I'm only up to the 5th chapter, but I can safely say this is a truly amazing alternate / real fiction portrait of mid-1960s London - and Mick Jagger and the Stones: http://chomupress.com/our-books/here-comes-the-nice/
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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.156.32.78
| Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 12:18 pm: | |
This is one helluva book! |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 02:56 pm: | |
I liked the look of this when I got the blurb from Chomu to put on the BFS site. But I haven't bought it yet (one of the problems of my new role doing the online news for the BFS is that I keep seeing interesting books .. and I keep spending money on them!). You have a good idea about my reading likes, Des - do you think this would be one for me? The late 60s/early 70s is "my" era. |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.156.32.78
| Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 03:11 pm: | |
It's very good on the mid-60s, Stones, The Pretty Things and Carnaby St etc etc ---- in parallel with a wonderful SF-type vision of the present, post-Blair London. The style is very rich but generally accessible. I'm inclined to call it a masterpiece - but I'm not yet halfway. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.126.98
| Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 03:26 pm: | |
I'd not heard of this until you posted, Des, but it sounds right up my (Carnaby) street, me being, as a friend put it the other day, 'of a certain age'! |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 03:45 pm: | |
Yup, I'm getting tempted too ... |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2011 - 04:45 pm: | |
This one from Chomu Press sounds rather tempting too: http://chomupress.com/our-books/the-secret-life-of-the-panda/ |