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Friday, October 16, 2009 
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'Beginners'
Raymond Carver




According to The Internet, Raymond Carver was a major player in reviving the American Short Story with his collection 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Love'. That short collection was, it recently came to light, heavily edited by his editor, Gordon Lish - edited so heavily that nearly 50% of the stories were cut, shortened and changed. Just this month, the late Carver's wife and muse Tess Gallagher saw to it that the collection of stories was published without Lish's amendments, not because they were rubbish, but because Carver wanted the stories to be published in their original format one day. I bought this last week and have been reading one story a day, it's classic American fiction, with all the typical uplifting themes of disappointment, broken dreams, violent unhappiness and alcoholism. Right up my street, then.


'L.A Confidential'
James Ellroy





The book of the film, or the film of the book? Wildly different from the Oscar-winning film adaptation, but no less utterly awesome, this is the 3rd book in a row of Ellroy's that I've read, and I love it. Super-complex plots centred around super-damaged, fucked-up-to-the-core cops in the 50's, this gives me nightmares and floods me with violence through the day, but it's awesome and totally worth the journey.


'Pharmakon'
Dirk Wittenborn



Starts out like a Dave Eggers/hip young American sort of novel and veers wildly halfway through into epic American saga about happiness, how we find it, and what we do to people around us. So funny and heartbreaking, this is going to be MASSIVE next year we suspect. I bought my Dad a copy for his birthday and he liked it too. Benchmark.
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Great Lengths
By Martyn
Release date: 2009-05-12
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