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Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
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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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
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Re: Whatcha reading?

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
Tub book:
Image
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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
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Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:18pm
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 1:11pm
Marky Dread wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 1:06pm
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 12:59pm
17) 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.
Read this when I was 18. Loved it pure charm indeed.
I got onto the book after the Libertines described it as totemic. Very British adventuring debauchery.
It can’t be better than Biggles can it
Can't say as Biggles has ever appealed to me

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Flex wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 5:18pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
Tub book:
Image
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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
Limey Warning: contains Limeys
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Re: Whatcha reading?

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Silent Majority wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 5:32pm
Flex wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 5:18pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
Tub book:
Image
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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
Limey Warning: contains Limeys
The sign welcoming the weary internet user on the dirt road to IMCT.
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If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its booty. - Jimmy Carter to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, 15 September 1978

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
Tub book:
Image
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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
That’s a selling point for me.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc

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Silent Majority wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 5:31pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:18pm
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 1:11pm
Marky Dread wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 1:06pm
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Feb 2025, 12:59pm
17) 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.
Read this when I was 18. Loved it pure charm indeed.
I got onto the book after the Libertines described it as totemic. Very British adventuring debauchery.
It can’t be better than Biggles can it
Can't say as Biggles has ever appealed to me
I’m only aware of it because of Python, I don’t know much beyond what’s referenced there.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc

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Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
Tub book:
Image
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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
That’s a selling point for me.
Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels. :crazy:
If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its booty. - Jimmy Carter to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, 15 September 1978

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:33pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 1:44pm
Tub book:
Image
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.
This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
That’s a selling point for me.
Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels. :crazy:
I got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc

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Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:45pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:33pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:37pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 3:19pm


This sounds right up my tub book alley. I’ll look for it at the bookshop today.
I should attach a Limey warning. There's some stuff about soccer, but not a paralyzing amount.
That’s a selling point for me.
Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels. :crazy:
I got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.
You shant make Eton with those grades!
If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its booty. - Jimmy Carter to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, 15 September 1978

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:50pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:45pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:33pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:12pm
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.
That’s a selling point for me.
Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels. :crazy:
I got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.
You shant make Eton with those grades!
Isn’t Eton like the equivalent of elementary school?

Also, main bookshop didn’t have it, I’ll check the other one tomorrow.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc

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Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 9:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:50pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:45pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:33pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:12pm


That’s a selling point for me.
Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels. :crazy:
I got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.
You shant make Eton with those grades!
Isn’t Eton like the equivalent of elementary school?

Also, main bookshop didn’t have it, I’ll check the other one tomorrow.
Worst case scenario, I'll mail you my copy.
If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its booty. - Jimmy Carter to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, 15 September 1978

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
02 Mar 2025, 7:20am
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 9:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:50pm
Kory wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:45pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
01 Mar 2025, 6:33pm


Oh, look at Mr. I Got My A Levels. :crazy:
I got an A Level in pizza, the rest were O.
You shant make Eton with those grades!
Isn’t Eton like the equivalent of elementary school?

Also, main bookshop didn’t have it, I’ll check the other one tomorrow.
Worst case scenario, I'll mail you my copy.
You knowing my address certainly qualifies as a worst case scenario…

Thanks! I’ll let you know what happens.
"Suck our Earth dick, Martians!" —Doc

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revbob wrote:
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Plus it's even easier not to make eye contact with anyone!
If a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its booty. - Jimmy Carter to Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, 15 September 1978

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