I'm going to write a proper review of this for Whatever Next (and I even started bunging something togther today, but need to rethink a bit as I couldn't save it in any form that was useful... - I may end up having to design it, print it and scan it back in...) but I couldn't wait to recommend this book to you:

'Ex Libris' by Anne Fadiman.

Basically the entire book is a love poem to literature in the form of several essays, and I suspect there'll be more than a few of us here who recognise the emotions contained within the first essay "Marrying Libraries" - which melds the subject of long term love affairs of people and books brilliantly. Other subjects include obsessive proof reading (and I know we all do that...), books and food, and also the funniest essay I have ever read on plagiarism (did you know that one guy even went so far in his plagiarism as to steal a vehement attack on plagiarists? Now that's chutzpah!). Its only got 150 pages, but it expresses everything I feel about books....

Anyone else got anything good?



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

The latest things I've been reading aren't coming out till may and June so I think it's too early to review, and i don't like reviewing other than to say i liked it or not. reviewing sounds too much like analyising books and i'm strongly against it... who are we to know what a writer meant when he/she was writing... (and i say that because when i used to write short stories i got fed up with people interpreting them)

But in May keep an eye out for "the curious incident of the dog in the night time"

Does this mean you need more input fro the newsletter? Is it too late for the recipes? Was the deadline the 12th or the 21st? Sick of these questions? By the way, PSD, that book!...well, I know what I'll be reading next. Thank you very much.

hmmmm, I might not be good at writing stuff but I recon I could do some book reviews if that would help.

Have you read a proof copy of the new 'Harry Potter' book?

Book reviews will be fine for Whatever Next, as would anything else you all find interesting. As for submission deadlines, I wouldn't worry about it as anything that doesn't get used will just hang about on file.



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

What is the Whatever Next? I know its a newsletter, from reading various threads, but haven't been able to find a thread specifically saying what it is - email, paper, subscription based, whatever? (There most likely is one, but I don't have loads of time to read all the old threads)



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

What is Whatever Next? It is an e-zine. Which means it is web-based, and subscribers get an e-mail saying when new issues are ready.

Anyyhing else? Oh, yes, it's free. And you can see the test page and subscribe at [uk.geocities.com]

It's very good. Even if my name is spelt wrong on it ....



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it is? I'm sorry Jon...I double checked it but apparently not against your own website. Shoulda told me earlier!

And Jo, on that website, it will also be available as a downloadable PDF so you can read it offline at your convienience. Or even print it out, if you so desire.

Actually it was my brother what spotted it, he having the same surname and all. It not a problem .... plenty of time before publicification!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Struggling with pdf based output, but never fear, I will puzzle a way around it!



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I haven't yet read 'Ex Libris' by Anne Fadiman. Does this mean I don't respect the opinions of ffellow ffordians?

Oh no! Whatever Next?

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Ah! Ex Libris! I remember not reading it.
I respect EVERYONe's opinion - even those so obviously wrong.

Horrible Histories 'Horrible Christmas'.

Nearly enough in one book to cause thinking entities to revise their beliefs about the perigee festivities.

'Bridge of Birds' by Harry Hughart? Or did I already recommend that somewhere here?

I'm too lazy to write about it again though, so recycling the old one:
[mightyclomp.blogspot.co.uk]

I strongly recommend "The Book with No Name" (first of a sequence of 3, although I believe that there is another book between volumes 2 and 3, not particularly part of the same story.) It is by "Anonymous" so easier to look up by title than author!

It is a bit like a written version of a Tarantino film: pulpy, violent, fast paced and strandles genres.

It is not for everyone, but worth looking at a review or two

There is a movie version due in the not-to-distant future.

On a more classical note, you really can't beat 'A Tale Of Two Cities', especially if you're secretly a Carton yourself.

Oh, and 'Logicomix', which I will not spoil at all by even describing.



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'Zorba the Greek' is proving to be well written so far, but it's freaking me out for some reason I can not specify or identify at this time!

I've just finished reading Germinal by Zola. That were a real mixed sack of nutty slack!