"We're living in the present that JG Ballard imagined for us." (Will Self, badly remembered by JH-R)
... Which makes perfect sense to me, of course.
Fine stuff. SB Show theme unchanged since the time it was on far too late and besides you've got school in the morning. However, MBragg looks to have aged thirty years in ten minutes, which was a bit jarring.
... Which makes perfect sense to me, of course.
Fine stuff. SB Show theme unchanged since the time it was on far too late and besides you've got school in the morning. However, MBragg looks to have aged thirty years in ten minutes, which was a bit jarring.
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Date: 2006-09-17 11:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 09:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 09:18 am (UTC)Piling random unconnected rubbish into a lovely beachfront set is _not_ literature, for any level above "Ooh, weird shiny thing!" fanboy.
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Date: 2006-09-18 09:35 am (UTC)Anyway, I've already read 'The third policeman' and if that bunker thing with associated data-entry isn't 'Five and three-eights on the lever' then I'm deSelby's 'Country Album'.
On the other hand, them teevee people wheel JGB onto $arts_programme whenever he's got a book out and go through the same loop each time.
Still, it's pleasing to be entirely correct about 'The atrocity exhibition' and Martin Amis.
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Date: 2006-09-18 02:06 pm (UTC)