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  1. shiels

    Cronenberg does Martin Amis

    You do seem enamoured with that self assurance, same in Hitchens. This kind of public intellectual that’s lost now. There is something about these depressed posh boys that is fascinating, the arrogance and odd vulnerability together. I don’t agree with them on most things but I do really enjoy...
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    Cronenberg does Martin Amis

    There’s some cringeworthy bits about the IRA, seems very conservative and embarrassing dealing with his idea of terrorism
  3. shiels

    Cronenberg does Martin Amis

    It’s drawing parallels in my mind with succession .. brilliant English comic writers doing an impression of Americans
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    Cronenberg does Martin Amis

    Money is very funny. It’s like corpsey said before you’re just reading for great description, what happens doesn’t matter much . I do have to push myself through it and at times the prose does feel try hard and fussy but he does keep paying off. I do love sour posh English cunts at times
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    Cronenberg does Martin Amis

    Just before the male’s climax the couple separated with jittery haste. Then she knelt in front of him. One thing was clear: the cowboy must have spent at least six chaste months on a yoghurt ranch eating nothing but icecream and buttermilk, and with a watertight no-handjob clause in his...
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    The Underexplored

    Dissensus Lads Club
  7. shiels

    The Underexplored

    Mephedrone
  8. shiels

    The Underexplored

    Electroclash
  9. shiels

    The Underexplored

    UK funky
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    Saul Bellow

    Will do bro I’ll get this one and herzog
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    Saul Bellow

    Don’t know the context but just reading his response to that https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/specials/bellow-papuans.html
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    Saul Bellow

    Fuck off. Why is he malevolent? I’ve only read a few Passages and I do like the style a lot
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    Saul Bellow

    Just watch some smug provocation unfold
  14. shiels

    Saul Bellow

    Like me you like to start threads and contribute basically fuck all
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    Saul Bellow

    What do you like about Saul @luka
  16. shiels

    Saul Bellow

    @jenks how come you moved on from all lower case?
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    Saul Bellow

    What should I start with then? Kevin Barry loves him and herzog especially, Amis said ramelstein or whatever is genius. But @craner on augie has me leaning to that
  18. shiels

    Cronenberg does Martin Amis

    It’s worth subscribing to Hanifs emails from hospital and he pastes them on Twitter to I think. Sometimes very funny and moving
  19. shiels

    How Normal are your 'Normal Mates'?

    He’s been posting six hours a day for twenty years it would be very embarrassing if he wasn’t
  20. shiels

    How Normal are your 'Normal Mates'?

    He has a picture that perfectly encapsulates his ilk. A dozen wretched dentally challenged English goblin men. Show us the picture luke
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