Wordcount: 112,785. Pages: 360.

Okay, you know how I'm reading Rupert Thomson's Five Gates Of Hell at the moment? ( ... some anxious flailing and babbling ... )

So yeah, Bret Easton Ellis wuz here ( Read more... )

So the new Bret Easton Ellis novel came out recently. And cos it's a sequel to Less Than Zero, the only BEE novel I didn't own cos I had borrowed it out from the library, I bought them together and forced myself to read them in order.

It took me like a week to read Less Than Zero cos every time I put it down, I didn't want to pick it up again. ( ... wish that I was made of stone ... )

Going to see Rupert Thomson as part of the Sydney Writers' Festival this week so I thought it would be good to put down my reaction to his latest book before I get brainwashed muddled with what he says.

This Party's Got To Stop. Being a memoir, his first work of non-fiction ( Read more... )

30 Days MemeDay 19 ** A talent of yours ( Read more... )

Okay. Seriously. I have got to talk about Cape Fear.


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I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy.

Yep. That says it all.

Why is there no mood icon for 'seething with resentment'?

*surfaces ( Read more... )

So last night sheba_finesse and friends and I went to see The Duel.

Okay, yes, the entire appeal of the show was Luke --- repeat after me, Llllllluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuke --- Mullins but I was vaguely curious about the textual aspect, being that it was supposed to be from ole Dosto's The Brothers Karamazov, the pronunciation of which I had to be taught by the ( Read more... )

So Empire Of The Sun.

After chronicling my thoughts at various points during my reading, the ending proved to be slightly puzzling but no less fuckingawesome.

(  ... of screwy-siders, totally spoilery ... )