What was the last book you read from cover to cover? Do you have a subscription for (or regularly buy) any magazines? Do you regularly buy a newspaper? What was the last CD you bought? I recently read The Quintinshill Conspiracy. Tragic and deeply upsetting, yet utterly absorbing. 9/10 I never miss Viz, Real Crime, WSC and Mojo. The Non-League Paper is the only rag I'll buy. Morrissey's latest offering, Low in High School. It's no Vauxhall and I, but it still has its moments. Can't wait to see the great man (for the umpteenth time) at Ally Pally in March. I look forward to reading your responses.
Book - Harry Findlay's biography. About a month ago. Magazine - no, get them all free at work [Private Eye, Spectator, New Statesman, the Beano etc] Newspaper - ditto. I nick the office copy of the Mail every day. Also read the Sun, Times & Telegraph. Plus the Guardian when I am constipated. CD - no. Unfortunately I have spent the last 4 months sitting in hospitals every day, the iPad came in very useful during that time if only for online gambling
@baraettmattesvensson has just PM’d me asking me to record his- Book- only to stand on Mag - Rustler, Readers Wives, GILFs Galore Paper - Trainspotters Gazette (I have actually caught him reading it...) CD - Dame Vera Lynn Greatest Hits - he only bought it to ogle the cover photo.
Book - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (about 10 years ago). I am currently reading The White Plague by Frank Herbert, but only about 20% through it. And no, it has not taken me 10 years to get that far. Magazine - I never subscribed to any, but for a few years in my youth I regularly bought 2000AD, Private Eye and VIZ. Newspaper - Regularly buy The Sun and The Mirror ... the tabloid truth is usually somewhere inbetween them. CD - Not sure (a few years back) but one of the last I bought was 50 words for snow by Kate Bush, on whom I have had a crush for 40 years. Must confess though I have never listened to it.
Mr van Gerwen, that was a shock to the system at Paddington station. It confirmed you were my stalker! And unfortunately you are correct about me flicking through the train magazine, sussed
Quality publications for the discerning reader. Oft to be found under the seats of slam-door carriages back in the golden age of rail travel.
Lonely Planet for Buenos Aires VOTV, a cracking read. The Metro, it's free. The Human League, although I cannot remember the title.
What was the last book you read from cover to cover? Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski, amazing book, slightly worrying that I kind of reminded me what I was like as an adolescent. Guess that’s why I read that and Catcher in the Rye every year. Identify with them both massively. Do you have a subscription for (or regularly buy) any magazines? The Sky at Night is about the only one. Have a keen interest in astronomy, no doubt next issue will be focused on a red Tesla and SpaceX Do you regularly buy a newspaper? I once thought I saw someone reading a newspaper in the park. Turns out it was a Chinese takeaway menu. What was the last CD you bought? I’ve not brought a CD since the days of Napster, so god knows. Massive advocate of Spotify, revolutionised how people listen to music legally. However I can answer: Last Vinyl: Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland (Original Pressing) Last Song Listened: Maria McKee - Days of Thunder / Show Me Heaven* *Great tune and movie!
Just finished The Cloud Garden by Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, now reading Alan Bennett's autobiography. I have a subscription for Private Eye, Radio Times and the CSMA motoring magazine. Also buy The Big Issue most weeks. Get The Mirror Monday-Friday and the Grauniad on Saturday, no Sundays. I bought Out of the Sky by John Etheridge and Vimala Rowe, signed by Etheridge at a gig by him at the Liberal club on Dec 29th.
What was the last book you read from cover to cover? History book called 'the Tudors' by a bloke called G.J.Meyer. Interesting read but he veered towards favouring Mary and attacking Elisabeth I which I found unusual. Do you have a subscription for (or regularly buy) any magazines? No, never - last bought Viz, and Sky and Telescope but way back when. Do you regularly buy a newspaper? No, but I do buy La Vanguardia and El Periodico from time to time. What was the last CD you bought? The soundtrack of the film Hell or High water - great film, and the soundtrack was worth it for the Chris Stapleton number at the end.
Munich- Len Deighton... very good. Now reading the new Harry Bosch book by Michael Connell Private Eye Subscribe to Spotify so don’t buy CDs
