I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.
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Limey Warning: contains LimeysDr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.
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Can't say as Biggles has ever appealed to meKory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:18pmIt can’t be better than Biggles can itSilent Majority wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 1:11pmI got onto the book after the Libertines described it as totemic. Very British adventuring debauchery.Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 1:06pmRead this when I was 18. Loved it pure charm indeed.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 12:59pm17) Brendan Behan's Island: An. Irish Sketch Book - Brendan Behan. Paperback. DB. 1962. Had low expectations of this Behan book. It's from his "slurring into a tape recorder" era, that last stop before the grave. But his words are almost as cheering and inspiring as ever. As a piss artist insistently demolishing himself, we could have expected much worse than this cheerful cash in. It's short but really quite sweet.
18) Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare. Paperback. 1605. Adoring this era of Shakespeare's plays, which uses the bones of comedy to tell great dramatic stories. Next: All's Well That Ends Well.
19) Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey - Richard Ayoade. Paperback. 2014. This made me laugh out loud a few times on one of the worst days of my life. It got a touch tired over the word count, but if you like what Ayoade puts out there, in his absurd, persnickety little style, you'll enjoy this.
20) The Moon's A Balloon - David Niven. Audiobook. 1971. Read by the author. One of the great Hollywood memoirs, up there with Errol Flynn's. Pure charm.
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The sign welcoming the weary internet user on the dirt road to IMCT.Flex wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 5:18pmLimey Warning: contains LimeysDr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.
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Accompanied by a picture of a grizzled and deranged Heston eating supernoodles.Silent Majority wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 5:32pmThe sign welcoming the weary internet user on the dirt road to IMCT.Flex wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 5:18pmLimey Warning: contains LimeysDr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.
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That’s a selling point for me.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.
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I’m only aware of it because of Python, I don’t know much beyond what’s referenced there.Silent Majority wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 5:31pmCan't say as Biggles has ever appealed to meKory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:18pmIt can’t be better than Biggles can itSilent Majority wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 1:11pmI got onto the book after the Libertines described it as totemic. Very British adventuring debauchery.Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 1:06pmRead this when I was 18. Loved it pure charm indeed.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025, 12:59pm17) Brendan Behan's Island: An. Irish Sketch Book - Brendan Behan. Paperback. DB. 1962. Had low expectations of this Behan book. It's from his "slurring into a tape recorder" era, that last stop before the grave. But his words are almost as cheering and inspiring as ever. As a piss artist insistently demolishing himself, we could have expected much worse than this cheerful cash in. It's short but really quite sweet.
18) Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare. Paperback. 1605. Adoring this era of Shakespeare's plays, which uses the bones of comedy to tell great dramatic stories. Next: All's Well That Ends Well.
19) Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey - Richard Ayoade. Paperback. 2014. This made me laugh out loud a few times on one of the worst days of my life. It got a touch tired over the word count, but if you like what Ayoade puts out there, in his absurd, persnickety little style, you'll enjoy this.
20) The Moon's A Balloon - David Niven. Audiobook. 1971. Read by the author. One of the great Hollywood memoirs, up there with Errol Flynn's. Pure charm.
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Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:12pmThat’s a selling point for me.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.

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I got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:33pmOh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:12pmThat’s a selling point for me.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:19pmThis sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 1:44pmTub book:
Tim Lott, White City Blue. I've read this several times before, but not for at least a decade. It's akin to High Fidelity minus all the music obsession. It's about four guys in their thirties who are friends because of a shared moment when they were teenagers. That's the basis of the friendship, not a common outlook, but a kind of momentum, like riding a wave, dating from that event. Friends because of tradition, stuff in the past rather than present/future. And then one of them announces he's getting married, disrupting that momentum and forcing a confrontation as to whether there's still the basis for a friendship. Probably not a book that can be appreciated by anyone under 30, but after that, yeah, familiarity sets in.![]()
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You shant make Eton with those grades!Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:45pmI got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:33pmOh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:12pmThat’s a selling point for me.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pmI should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.![]()
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Isn’t Eton like the equivalent of elementary school?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:50pmYou shant make Eton with those grades!Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:45pmI got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:33pmOh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:12pmThat’s a selling point for me.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.![]()
Also, main bookshop didn’t have it, I’ll check the other one tomorrow.
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Worst case scenario, I'll mail you my copy.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 9:50pmIsn’t Eton like the equivalent of elementary school?
Also, main bookshop didn’t have it, I’ll check the other one tomorrow.
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You knowing my address certainly qualifies as a worst case scenario…Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑02 Mar 2025, 7:20amWorst case scenario, I'll mail you my copy.Kory wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 9:50pmIsn’t Eton like the equivalent of elementary school?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Mar 2025, 6:50pmYou shant make Eton with those grades!
Also, main bookshop didn’t have it, I’ll check the other one tomorrow.
Thanks! I’ll let you know what happens.
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