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Why Isn’t There A Peter Pan Spinoff About Pans?
Peter Pan would have sold pans like this. Very shiny, aren’t they? Peter Pan was the boy who never grew up. As this fairy tale is complete nonsense, of course, Peter Pan would have had to have grown...
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Book Of Da Week: Factotum
There must be some sort of fact in there, you snow, but we donut know what it is! “What the hell type of title is that for an book?” you murmur idiotically. Well, cretins, murmuring won’t get you far...
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Book Of Da Week: Crime And Punishment
Prime and Cunishment. One hell of a buke! Holy moly, we’ve gone for the Big ‘Un. Yes, it’s Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s (what some would say) masterpiece! We read this a decade ago and remember it clearly,...
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Book Of Da Week: Rasputin – A Short Life
Check out the beard. Bloody hell, a post about Grigory Rasputin? Are we Communists!?!? Whatever, fools, we’re here to report about the book we’re currently reading – Rasputin: A Short Life. There’s a...
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Book Of Da Week #2: The Master And Margarita
For the glory of Behemoth! Mikhail Bulgakov’s book weren’t not released during his lifetime as he had such a fraught, capricious time dealing with it. Described as an “exuberant comic masterpiece”, the...
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Book Of Da Week: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Like solitude? Want 100 years of it? This is the book for you! 100 years or One Hundred years – which would you write? 100 certainly takes less thyme. You can think about other stuff whilst you tap it...
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Book Of Da Week: Storm of Steel
Steel of Storm. War, eh? What is it about war that remains so compelling? Well, let’s state the bloody obvious: war is about as far removed from day-to-day existence as you can get. This is why it’s...
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Book Of Da Week: The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Early titles included “The Snows of Skegness”, but Hemingway’s agent convinced him otherwise. Okay, so we started this regular Book Of Da Week thing back in December, or something, and we’ve still not...
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Book Of Da Week: The Dharma Bums
Yep. At the risk of coming across as idiotic Hipsters, we’ve decided to cover Jack Kerouac this week. We’ve been reading his books since 2004, we’ll have you know, far preceding any Hipster beard...
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Book Of Da Week: All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front. Im Westen nichts Neues, as it is known in Deutschland, was written by German war veteran Erich Maria Remarque and published in 1929. Quite some time after the end of the...
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Book Of Da Week: Game Over
Game over, man. Game over! Game Over: Nintendo’s Battle To Dominate Video Games is our book of choice for the week ahead, frankly as it’s considered the best book ever written about video games. It’s...
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In Praise of The British Library’s Public Domain Photo Collection!
One of our favourite images for quite some time! Last month (we think it was last month) the British Library released 1 million scanned images into the public domain. You can access them from the...
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Book Of Da Week: after the quake
After The Quake. A bit of Haruki Murakami this week, one of the top writers in the world. Other than Professional Moron, of course! His most famous books include Kafka on the Shore and IQ84, but...
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Book Of Da Week #2: Dear Boy – The Life of Keith Moon
Mr. Moon. Heck, the 7th September marked another anniversary since Mr. Keith Moon, legendary drummer of The Who, got himself dead in 1978. Throughout his life Mr. Moon (unrelated to Frasier’s Daphne...
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Book Of Da Week: J.G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun
Empire of the Sun. Empire of the Sun. Indeed. The chances are most of you will know of this from the largely forgotten Steven Spielberg gem from 1987. It starred a then 13 year old Sir Christian Bale...
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Book f’ t’ Week : Madame Bovary
We’ve forgotten what the title is. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (pronounced: flaw-burt) is a novel from 1856. Quite the while ago, which is why its subject matter scandalised France and led to the...
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Review: Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices From Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices From Chernobyl. Fresh from Svetlana Alexievich’s thoroughly well deserved Nobel Prize in Literature this week, I decided to review Voices From Chernobyl (the sales of which...
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Book of da Week: Italo Calvino’s Into the War
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! Italo Calvino’s Into the War is a contemplative look at the summer of 1940 in Italy, and considers different generations caught up in the onset of...
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How to Be a Waiter or Waitress
“Burger and lobster, sir?” In George Orwell’s absolutely super Down and Out in Paris and London, the author, journalist, and writer of sharp polemical stuff, relates his experiences as a poverty...
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Book of da Week: Nikolai Gogol’s Petersburg Tales
Nikolai Gogol’s Petersburg Tales. Ho ho ho, it’s Nikolai Gogol’s Petersburg Tales! This consists of a wickedly bizarre set of short stories which remain exceptionally fresh and amusing, even after over...
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