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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jun 17, 2004 19:22:44 GMT
As part of an attempt to drag myself kicking and screaming out of the cultural gutter, I've been trying to read lots of books recently.
After a couple of ace ones by Magnus Mills (All Quiet On The Orient Express and The Scheme for Full Employment), I was tempted by the garish cover and 3-for-2ness of Rhona Cameron's autobiographical 1979.
And guess what? So far it's rather great!
So, the question is: which book have you bought to make up the numbers in a 3-for-2 offer, only to be surprised by how good it turned out to be?
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Post by littlemissperfect on Jun 17, 2004 21:50:33 GMT
I've bought so many books to make up 3-for-2s that they litter my room! The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh was unexpectedly ace, a really great film-noir-esque thriller set in Glasgie with a cracking plotline about snuff-movies and seedy gays. Hmm. I'm not selling it so well here. It's great!
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Post by TheVulcanizedOne on Jun 18, 2004 0:42:56 GMT
I've bought so many books to make up 3-for-2s that they litter my room! The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh was unexpectedly ace, a really great film-noir-esque thriller set in Glasgie with a cracking plotline about snuff-movies and seedy gays. Hmm. I'm not selling it so well here. It's great! Books about snuff and gays?? Believe me darlin, on this website, that is selling it VERY well indeed. |
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Post by zaffra on Jun 18, 2004 16:03:38 GMT
I've bought so many books to make up 3-for-2s that they litter my room! The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh was unexpectedly ace, a really great film-noir-esque thriller set in Glasgie with a cracking plotline about snuff-movies and seedy gays. Hmm. I'm not selling it so well here. It's great! I too bought this to make up the numbers, and yes it's great, love the cruising and rough sex. I saw Rhona's book, picked it up even, but bought 'Brick Lane' by Monica Ali instead. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2004 17:28:50 GMT
I bought Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gould in the Waterstone's 3-for-2, to make up the numbers for The Sea House by Esther Freud and Three to See the King by Magnus Mills (he's such a 3-for-2 whore). I only bought it because the cover was bonkers, and yet it is really, really good. It has already taught me many things: - Vibrators were first offered in America as a cure for "feminine complains and depression" - How to escape from an aborigine death-trap - It is always better to spell your name the correct way, rather than trying to be cool and substituting a C for a K PS: Here - www.poetrysociety.org.uk/review/pr91-1/hannah.htm - is a poem by one of my favourite poets, sort of about Magnus Mills! How queer. |
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Post by Poptastic! on Jun 18, 2004 21:42:57 GMT
Ooh a Magnus! Is he blonde? Jessica |
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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Jun 19, 2004 20:59:57 GMT
Rhona's book is absolutely amazing. She perfectly sums up what it's like being a homo growing up.
I got Ricky Tomlinson's autobigraphy in a 3-for-2. I didn't really want it but got it thinking I would give it to my mom. Anyway it turned out to be one of the best books I've read in a long time. It is hysterical in parts. He also says that when recording the pilot for The Royle Family, Cheryl was played by Kathy Burke but when it came to recording the first series she'd already commited to filming something else (probably Gimme Gimme Gimme) and so Jessica Stevenson replaced her.
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