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[Demoncrat]

Super-Cannes by JG Ballard.

When a convalescent pilot follows his paediatrician wife to a shiny new enclave called Eden-Olympia, which on the surface seems to embody that title. But it's JGB, so there is cancer underneath the canvas boat covers . In a really perverse way, he cheers me up. Recommended, but not for a first timer cough.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Super-Cannes by JG Ballard.

When a convalescent pilot follows his paediatrician wife to a shiny new enclave called Eden-Olympia, which on the surface seems to embody that title. But it's JGB, so there is cancer underneath the canvas boat covers . In a really perverse way, he cheers me up. Recommended, but not for a first timer cough.

Drugs, sex and violence - Just another day at the office for Ballard.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Drugs, sex and violence - Just another day at the office for Ballard.

Isn't that Cocaine Nights?

It's at the point where they lift up the facade. Always my favourite part of the ride ...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Isn't that Cocaine Nights?

It's at the point where they lift up the facade. Always my favourite part of the ride ...

Super Cannes and Cocaine Nights are sort of bedfellows don't you think?

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Super Cannes and Cocaine Nights are sort of bedfellows don't you think?

Just a duvet between them really
A very sweaty, sticky one mind

[MuckyFunster]

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Really very funny

It’s strange, but I always feel that old comedies are a bit stiff and, well, not actually funny. Humour changes, I suppose. But this book, first published in 1889, has been laugh out loud funny so far.


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[Demoncrat]

Indeed. Another older one I always find tittersome is The Diary Of A Nobody.

[Rob4]

Tried to read Nightshades and Damnations by Gerald Kersh but his style is an acquired taste that I couldn't quite acquire despite a high recommendation from Harlan Ellison.

Moved quickly on The Smell of Evil by Charles Birkin a collection of very short and nasty stories where people come to bad ends and didn't even deserve it. I'd read most of them before in anthologies but it was nice to be reminded of the good old days of Pan Horror and the like.

Then felt like something low brow so went for Slimer by Harry Adam Knight. Ok, we all know it was the grumpy Australian - John Brosnan - from the It's Only A Movie column in Starburst. Very cheap and nasty this one... i thoroughly enjoyed it

and I've just finished The Great White Space by Basil Copper, a Lovecraftian tale that's very much in the Cthulhu master's style of a very slow build to a quite effective climax of cosmic horror.

Next up is The Nest an old fashioned revenge of nature yarn which is a recommendation from the guys behind Paperback from Hell.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Excellent post, Rob. Nice one.

[bleakshaun]

Finished reading the Woman in Black and I've started reading William S Burroughs Exterminator!

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