All Consuming : Steve

Consumed "Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Steve) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:56:45 GMT

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know: The Autobiography

by Ranulph Fiennes

WORTH IT!

Consuming "Thames: The Biography"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Steve) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:54:23 GMT

Thames: The Biography

by Peter Ackroyd

The final Rebus (rated 5 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (Steve) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:59:25 GMT

exit Music

by Ian Rankin

Rebus retires, and with a suitable sting in the tale. Another superb slab of page-turning crime writing from Ian Rankin – I hope this is not the end of the Edinbugh crime stories. Read it, but read the rest first.

My only quibble is that Rebus once again gets a suspension, but is proved right. Rather like Harry Potter, after five or six times of being right when everyone else disbelieves him, you think someone in authority might have noticed and given him the benefit of the doubt.

I bet we see Rebus and Big Ger Cafferty again, though…

A review of "The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future"

nobody@allconsuming.net (Steve) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:45:18 GMT

The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future

by Will Self

Possibly one of the great London novels, with post-apocalyptic dystopia rubbing shoulders with the grubby grind of the present, interwoven with mental breakdown, casual violence and doomed relationships.

Not a book to cheer you up, then – but highly recommended.

Best British comedy in years (rated 5 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (Steve) — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:32:49 GMT

Green Wing

by Channel 4

Green Wing is surreal, touching, mad, and absolutely laugh-out-loud hysterical. I have to get the DVDs, there’s so much I know I missed in just one viewing.