His solo stuff is terrific and his bands were all terrific as well. It always makes me laugh that he thought a concept album about the Baader Meinhof group could be commercially successful!
His solo stuff is terrific and his bands were all terrific as well. It always makes me laugh that he thought a concept album about the Baader Meinhof group could be commercially successful!
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He is mental
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The imagination some of these writers have is amazing. I remember reading Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach as a kid,along with some of his other work. They were brilliantly unique and original stories that really fired my young imagination,and painted such vivid mind pictures that I felt I was there,living the story. Genius.
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riffraff
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His son Peter Leonard’s not bad either. Though he must feel a bit like Paul Dalglish tbh.
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Eddie Coyles his finest moment.
Pagan Babies, Bandits and Swag are Elmore’s three claims for immortality. Tarantino used up his first few pay cheques from Reservoir Dogs buying up all Elmore’s unsold film rights and apparently spent his only time in the cells after being caught shoplifting one of his novels the day it was released.
thecloughywobble
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I've not heard of him but I take your point: bit of a hard act to follow.
riffraff
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He walks a similar beat subject wise. Small time crooks n scam artists but his characters dont seem as funny or cool. I believe he and his dads old researcher are attempting to finish off the one Elmore was working on when he died.
thecloughywobble
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Ha ha, brilliant. I've read Swag & Pagan Babies but not Bandits. I've also got an old second hand copy of a book of his short stories called When the Women Came Out to Dance which is rather good. I've also read his western short stories: even though that's not a genre that usually interests me, I made an exception for his & wasn't disappointed.
Often imitated, never equalled.
If you like unusual stuff, I can recommend 13 Stories & 13 Epitaphs by William T Vollmann, a much underrated writer, in my opinion.
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This gentleman for me, his earlier stuff was classic, I did a presentation about his early stuff once
mickeymoor
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Second for Dickens also like Zola
The brilliant thing with Roald Dahl is/was that his books and short stories aimed at adults were/are just as imaginative.
Harry Angstrom
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I might have finally cracked him. Was laughing when reading Merry Wives of Windsor
Started at the Tempest and going to work my way through over the next few years.
I read Tempest because I picked up Hagseed (Margaret Atwood) in a charity shop.
thecloughywobble
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Steady, Harry, la. Nee one cracks Shakespeare, not even Shakespeare, ha ha. Have fun on your journey.I might have finally cracked him. Was laughing when reading Merry Wives of Windsor
Started at the Tempest and going to work my way through over the next few years.
I read Tempest because I picked up Hagseed (Margaret Atwood) in a charity shop.
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My previous attempts
To be or not to be hey nonny nonny no no nonny nonny .........
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows hey nonny nonny no no nonny nonny no no.........
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John Steinbeck
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After you've deliberated, cogitated & digested, perhaps you could come up with a terrace chant in the style of an Elizabethan lute song, or perhaps a madrigal? It's Much Ado About Nowt but it might just work.
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i read a lot of James Herbert when I was younger. The Rats still makes my skin crawl. Nowadays i tend to read autobiographies and historical stuff related to WW2.
The wife recommends John Grisham
The wife recommends John Grisham
