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Wade T Oberlin

Nathan Loud it certainly delivers!

Wade T Oberlin

I read/ingested another author bio-comic last year that was about Patricia Highsmith. It was called Flung Out of Space. Author is Ohioan.

Randall

peeblood Last year I read "Our Share of the Night" by Mariana Enriquez based off your recommendation and it was my favorite book I've read in a long time. If you have any similar recs send em my way

ratcharge

Randall Her short stories collections are amazing too, definitely go for it if you liked the novel (she’s got three translated in English, including « Things we lost in the fire » with one story featuring one of the characters from « Our Share of Night »)

Randall

ratcharge yeah I’ve been wanting to check out her short stories collections and just loved her in long form so much I wasn’t sure it would scratch the same itch.

SwissCheeseBack

I finished it a while back, but Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age was a really entertaining read. I was familiar with some of the groups like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, but it was cool to get the extra context.

A friend lent me a copy of Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan from Screaming Trees but I haven't started it yet. Once my semester is over I'll get to read for fun a bit more instead of just for school.

nonsenseorgan

Got a lil tired of reading about NYC in the 1970s and decided to jump back a century thereabouts. Started Lucy Sante's "Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York" about the city in the 1800s/early 1900s.

Clif

Orstralia - A Punk History 1974-1989

Just finished this and it was alright. Almost more like a catalog than a narrative. No band got more than a few pages and a bunch just a few paragraphs. It was pretty exhaustive, and the 1974-1981 section made me stop reading and look up bands every 10 pages. that's the good bit. The 1982-1989 section focuses almost exclusively on Oi, hardcore, and UK82 style bands. Mostly it is about nazi skinhead violence at shows and herion fucking everyone in the scene up. My favorite stuff like King Snake Roost, Lubricated Goat, feedtime, etc barely gets mentioned. grong Grong gets a couple of pages,which is nice. I think that is mainly from the Jello Biafra association ( he gets quoted a lot). The one band i had kind of forgotten about that i have been listening to a bit since reading about them is the Bored! Not all their stuff is killer, but the good stuff ( Mr Ten Percent, for example) is great.

Me, The Mob, and the Music by Tommy James ( of Shondells fame) is on deck.

ExpKind

Clif Orstralia - A Punk History 1974-1989

Read this last summer and these are pretty much my feelings as well. The 70s sections are really great, especially the Brisbane parts which gave some nice context. My own tastes definitely lean more toward the Aberrant and Red/Black Eye bands as well, so I was disappointed with the lack of material on that front. Cool to read a bit about Sick Things, but would have liked more than a mention of Fungus Brains. Still, worthwhile read. Debating checking out the 90s volume.

Just started Kier-La Janisse's House of Psychotic Women, which I've meant to read for years. Great so far.

Clif

ExpKind 90's one? Do you mean the Hozac book Noise in my Head? if not, what's it called? interested

ExpKind

Tristan Clark did a second volume covering 1990-1999 that they were promoting when the first volume came out. For some reason it doesn't show up on the PM Press site.

BARELY HUMAN

ExpKind Tristan Clark did a second volume covering 1990-1999 that they were promoting when the first volume came out. For some reason it doesn't show up on the PM Press site.

the '90s edition ended up being self-published, i think it was initally conceived as one comprehensive edition, but PM Press couldn't print the whole thing so tristan split it in two -- '90s version here >> https://www.orstralia.com/product/orstralia-a-punk-history-1990-1999

i picked up the '90s copy cos i'm writing part of a novel set in 2002 so figured it'd be useful research, but it was a really good read on its own. as a way of looking at the era through the lens of punkers/ex-punkers lookin back on their youths it's pretty fascinating. we've come a long way! haha

Sprague Dawley

we could do with some more book reviews here; https://bookreviews.boards.net/ just me and Prokash so far

Josh

Allez Al Just read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman,

Just started this yesterday after your tip. I've just finished Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte. Got me thinking that none of you are who you claim to be, but the thought passed.

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