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Private Eye have an exhibition at the V&A at the mo which may cover this. There is also a Cartoon museum or something in Bloomsbury I think.

Yeah House of Cards is very fun but the handling of race/gender/sexuality makes is seem dated and a bit weird by modern more tolerant/more pc standards. Maybe back then people found the idea of rank corruption more shocking than today with such a cynical public? There's also some incredible...

I think those other things stood out to me as actually breaching the laws of physics whereas this earlier stuff is just very silly/tongue in cheek but yep I agree really it's not a major thing.

Next on my list Queer - William Burrough Ghost Milk - Iain Sinclair (read half) Some Dorris Lessing Psy-fi stuff The Wizard of Earthsea series - Ursula le Guin My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk The Slap maybe if good...?

I agree it deffo didn't feel like MR at all, I guess we have been conditioned to associate certain types of writers with MR (first names most people would say I bet would be GG Marquez and maybe Rushdie) so MR is associated with South American 'exotic' things and post-colonial narratives. It's...

This is one of those books I've always meant to read - it's not super taxing is it?

Well I finished IJ (or Infinite Pest as it became known to me (mainly jokingly)). I loved the tennis and Ennet House stories and found Hal and Gately ended up being engaging and moving. It's horribly powerful how it opens with Hal all fucked up and then shows him to be sympathetic throughout...

I've not come across that - will check it out. Whilst we are on the topic http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/27/history-pmqs-prime-ministers-commons

I have been enjoying a few things recently. For all it's faults I love the spectacle of the HOC and the drama of politics. TV Yes Minister (bit dated and over acted but basically amazing) House of Cards (v over acted in some places but v v entertaining and watchable) A Very British Coup...

That sounds interesting, i do double bill club on my projector, could be a good combo!

It's derived from that I guess but means a thick fisherman's coat of some sort I think...?

My flatmate has just got this - so worth a read yeah? Dark weird-thrillerish thing with lots of splintered narratives? Might read some normal stuff between Infinite Jest and tackling this tho. I've got Russell Hoban's The Mouse and his Child on my shelf to read which i had to read to me as a...

I'm 800 pages deep into IJ, pretty amazing I agree. Some of the stuff on the political sepratism etc didn't grip me but the main story lines of Hal/Tennis and the Recovery house are both so good. The fight Gately has with the two Canadians is one of the best set pieces I've ever read.

Just had a look at the site and you can get mini kegs! amazing

That sounds great with the cumin and paprika, agree it's ace in salads, inc with bulgar/grains.

Yeah it's amazing roast! Totally new depth of flavour, more rich and savoury. Nice with pumpkin - http://saladdaysoffalnights.blogspot.com/2011/10/pasta-with-roast-cauliflower-and.html

Reading Alan Clark diaries as non-fiction choice along with infinite Jest - very entertaining and great picture of inside the Tory party, plotting re Thatcher and various entrenched privilege. Bit racist/sexist obviously too.

St. John the Baptist holds on for bounce-back win over Christ the King

If defacing books is ok for Joe Orton then go for it.

Prolific Lesbian Burglars Thwarted By Lion