First, a confession: I’ve never read Trainspotting. I’ve seen the film (as if that’s any compensation) and thought it was excellent, and have meant to read the book, but found the dialect in the writing too damn dense. I had Filth recommended
to me by Brandon Wilkinson some time ago and I decided that, since he’d […]
Here’s me with the big cardboard Wall E at our local CineWorld, generally looking like a bit of a dork. I have come to embrace them after they drove the cinema I worked at out of business. It’s because of reasons such as this.
Saw Iron Man this weekend and was very, very impressed. It seems […]
I’ve been interested in this book for a few years and was very keen to find out where the title had stemmed from when I started reading it. Turns out that testicles look like eyeballs when both are popped out of their respective cubby holes, and our dear sweet Simone, fuck-buddy of the protagonist, likes […]
This is Logan’s first collection of ‘industrial fiction’, consisting of eight stories that take place in a world of electrical monsters, steel webs and sad televisions. It’s a bold movement into a ‘new’ genre, and I can tell that his heart’s really in the right place, but it just doesn’t come off.
The pacing within the […]
This has been praised as ‘the’ seminal book on transgression, though I would say that Chris Jenks’ more far more recent Transgression is a really good lead-in to this book. It’s dense, chewy and thoroughly academic, yet also very readable.
It seems to cover the following, though:
* Fairs (some of which evolved into…)
* Carnivals (one of […]
Kayleigh J Moore is a 22 year old author living in Cheltenham in the United Kingdom.