I had forgotten how difficult it is to post here! well, only three people had finished Fifth Business - and we all liked the downplayed view of the world. Looking forward to next month when Thomas and Martin might have finished it as I'd like to hear their thoughts on the main theme of the book as well as the denouement/

JG Ballard would love The Shard

This building is nearly complete. I hope they've read High Rise....

Fancy living on the 58th floor?

Britannia Panopticon

Britannia Panopticon

Does anyone remember some of us at the book club expressing an interest in visiting the Panopticon on Argyle Street?  I seem to remember someone saying that it was quite difficult to find out what events were taking place there, well, they now have a website with a list of upcoming events! 

 http://www.britanniapanopticon.org/events.html

I think this could be an interesting (I've put 'interesting' there instead of any kind of positive committal to the quality of the proceedings!) night out, would quite like to go see something there, the Laurel & Hardy movie night or Gladstone's Bag perhaps.....

I'm not sure if this is correct usage of the blog as it is meant to be about all things book related? So to meet the quota, here is a picture of a book:



Would be good to arrange a night out here if anyone fancies it?

RIP Ray Bradbury 1920-2012

Fifth Business | Robertson Davies

I was sufficiently a Canadian boy to know that Washington was a scoundrel....

Q. Do you do what I call research?

A. I tried to make it as general as possible...

I found that the Jungian attitude was a much more humane one...

As a newspaper man you hear three times as much as you can ever publish...

Cloud Atlas at the moving picture house

Blimey. A lot of Cloud Atlas movies out there. Tome Hanks isn't going to get it all his own way, y'know.

Alas, still no trailer for Hollywood's version. Hope it is a bit better.

The author seems to know what he is talking about at least...

Cloud Atlas | Concept art, apparently

Found this blog about Cloud Atlas the movie... and some concept art that has been released for it showing where the directors, the Wachowski brothers, they of The Matrix fame (sharp intake of breath), appear to be going with it.

I'd half forgotten just how much of the book is set in the near and distant future...