This is a slowburner of a novel – the clues to the ending are there, distributed across the pages, but the ending comes a little out of nowhere. A casual read, but not really good enough for me to recommend. There are better books.

Oh, but you might want to prepare yourself for the unexpected CGI demons. They are straight out of the 90s. Twilight vampires they are not.

Mediocre reviews, but as a fan of Mamoru Oshii’s original film, I was completely happy with this film. Beautiful details, interesting fleshing out of the original characters, and 90% faithful to the original storyline. Even if you don’t want to see anything changed, it’s worth seeing just for the frame by frame live action reproduction of the intro sequence (in the train).

Painfully. Dull. Great cast, terrible script, don’t waste your time – it’s a poor man’s The Squid and the Whale.

Good wing chun, shame about the Chinese nationalism hijacking Ip Man’s real story to rewrite history.

No heroes, no bad guys, with an unexpected history-rewriting ending. This is one of those books you might overlook for looking like a throwaway paperback, but despite the cheap writing, it’s a solid story that has an astonishing emotive ending. Recommended 100%

My favorite part as always with the graffiti scene, are the stories of close calls with police & gaining access to areas for painting. This book is all of that and more – excellent quality photographs, well over half the book is filled with quotes from the writers themselves, and there’s a whole history of the freight trains to boot. If you’ve read most of the standard books on the market about street art, graffiti et al and you’re looking for something a bit more meaty and value for money, pick this one up.

Once you hit the halfway point I would recommend taking a quick trip to Wikipedia to help yourself understand what the heck is going on. Aside from that confusion (which never really left me), Glamorama is well written and as dark as hell. Ellis will always be a writer worth reading.

Freaky as hell, compulsive reading. I could not put the book down as I approached the ending.

While the characters are by no means as lovable as the quotes on the book cover make them out to be, their racism in particular is just a matter of fact when it comes to history. As much as we would all like to believe that the Allied forces fought WWII with the emerging genocide in mind, plenty of people were unsympathetic and anti-semetic even AFTER the details of the concentration camp were revealed.

So this is an excellent publicised, easily accessible historical document. For example: they detail the post-war rationing excellently, and give us an otherwise unseen day to day insight into just how uncomfortable it was being British and at the behest of the rest of Europe/in debt to the US. Worth reading, worth bearing in mind as we look to the future.