The Turning

The Turning
Not read this yet, but glanced at a few chapters… and messaged the author… I’ll repost my words here:

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well guess what? I found myself sat in Starbucks hugging a hot chocolate and flicking through the pages of a little black paperback offered up at the counter. I had time to kill so, what the hell etc. I speed-read through a few chapters and got the jist of it, enough to slow down at all the right points of course And its there that I got a ‘moment of clarity’ as I like to call it. (I get these ‘moc’s from time to time… its my little metophorical ‘lightbulb above my head’ if you will)

It stemmed from reading the way that you wrote ‘fiction’ crammed with ‘faction’. Those little sentences of natural logic and similars, made me think a bit. Y’see I’ve been collecting brain spillage for a number of years, and amassed a fair clumpage fit for no-one cept me and that odd guy in the corner of the pub on a tuesday evening when everyone else has far better things to do etc. It was good to read, and I’m not much of a reader, so thats quite a compliment I think…. oh, or is it? bugger… I’ll carry regardless…

Sooo… anyway… I’m thinking that i’ve been inspired, but in what way I’m not entirely sure… cause its not to write, as I’ve been thinking that for days… and its not from subject matter, cause that would be plagiarism (and Dan Browns already covered that one)… I think its inspiration for a use for all those years of random dribble and theories of me, collected from too many £2.79 bottles of screw top cheap red wine and lying on my back in the middle of the night trying to spot Satellites without my glasses on.

Anyways… I’m losing it I think… either way, I’ve not read the book yet, but wanted to say that I’ll probably buy it and read some more. I find it… refreshing? yeah, thats a good word for it.

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So there you have it. I bought it, the last one on amazon.co.uk I believe. You can still buy it second hand there I believe. Its not arrived yet, when it has, I’ll fill out all the formatting tags.

Wrong About Japan

Wrong About Japan
short book, 150 odd pages, plus a few full page pictures thrown in. Decent sized font, with good kerning and line spacing, very easy on the eyes. The margins are big to, so the line length is pretty short. A real non-readers book this, tho rubbish smelly paper. I knocked out a chapter in Waterstones, bought it, and read another chapter in Starbucks… and I’m now about quarter of the way through the book. The story is a journal type thing about a dad discovering the hidden messages within Manga and anime history with his obsessed son Charley. Its an alright read, nothing stunning, you may learn something about japanese history, Godzilla being an animated response to the A-Bomb for an example, however Manga fan will probably enjoy this book the most. I felt a bit embarrassed carrying a pink Anime covered book about, luckily it fitted in my pocket tho.

The 5 people you meet in Heaven

The 5 people you meet in Heaven
230 pages, not particularly good paper, and a bit smelly too. Not sure what made me pick this one up, probably didn’t look too thick to read and if I recall the title was a bit odd. Turns out a guy dies and instead of being embraced by everyone at the pearly gates, he’s confronted with 5 key people from his life. Might read this if I get loads of time on my hands.

Streetwise

Streetwise: Stories from an Irish Prison
An easy to read bunch of contemporary short stories. Not many pages. I’ve read one ’story’ from it… and hate the fact they are fiction, cause they are so good I want to believe! However…. tis probably just faction. The paper smells and the font isn’t very good.

The Boy Who Saw True

The Boy Who Saw True
I bought this book and read it…. tho it did take me years to complete. Its short and has a horrible font, the paper is rubbish too, a bit like those Penguin Books, but it isn’t. The paper smelt of mud. The chapter format is in diary form, so its relatively quick to knock through the pages. I bought this based upon a recommendation in Otakers