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Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 3:35 pm

simong wrote: Cardiarms wrote: i liked it, but a matter of taste i suppose. it is a novel written by an author developing a style. he's written all his yorkshire novels while living in japan for ten years. That does make them weird, but he is a 40ish year old Wakefield lad so his folk memories are much the same as mine and many of you. 1974 was possibly the most chaotic year of recent times in this country: two elections, the reform of local government and the ensuing creation of the new county police forces, the miners striking and forcing their supporting industries to down tools: Poulson and T. Dan Smith and their pork belly politics. Peace tries to work all that into a grand universal weirdness. You might or might not believe in the interconnectedness of things but his version of 70s West Yorkshire is, and to read at least '1974' and '1978' if you know the area goes beyond 'buying the Evening Post and a packet of Seabrooks' as shorthand for the time and place. Peace has done for Leeds what Iain Rankin did for Edinburgh, which is a smaller but no less crazy city that hides its insanity under the veneer of respectability. You've forgotten the army surrounding Heathrow airport, I found that incident very sinister indeed.

simong · Post by **simong** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 8:26 pm

Trojan wrote: You've forgotten the army surrounding Heathrow airport, I found that incident very sinister indeed. Did that get much news coverage at the time? I know that it's since transpired that there was a group of people considering a coup in 1974 and that the army's occupation of Heathrow Airport (twice) was, according to Lady Falkender, part of it.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 8:34 pm

drapesy wrote: I got about 2/3 of the way through and just couldn.t stand anymore. I can see why, it's very stylised and a bit like marmite, love it or loathe it. In the end I think it worked but there are other way of getting there. I tried reading Trainspotting and ended up throwing that out the bus window.

drapesy · Post by **drapesy** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 9:13 pm

cnosni wrote: Not the best reader of fiction,more a fact reader myself,always more interesting than fiction.I take it then Drapesy that the book didnt hold sway?any particular reason? I just dont like his writing style - I find it infantile and almost insulting to my intelligence(or lack of same)

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 10:19 pm

I think Peace's novels are a bit of a case of ' the emperor's new clothes. Pretentious and badly written.Seeing as they're set around here I've tried at least 3 times to read one of them but given up in disgust after a couple of chapters. 'Damned United' being the final straw.And that one about the Miners' Strike seemed to set out to be as disjointed as possible - JG Ballard was doing stuff in that style in the '60s and although hard going at least he was a good writer.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 10:19 pm

I think Peace's novels are a bit of a case of ' the emperor's new clothes. Pretentious and badly written.Seeing as they're set around here I've tried at least 3 times to read one of them but given up in disgust after a couple of chapters. 'Damned United' being the final straw.And that one about the Miners' Strike seemed to set out to be as disjointed as possible - JG Ballard was doing stuff in that style in the '60s and although hard going at least he was a good writer.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 10:22 pm

I think Peace's novels are a bit of a case of ' the emperor's new clothes. Pretentious and badly written.Seeing as they're set around here I've tried at least 3 times to read one of them but given up in disgust after a couple of chapters. 'Damned United' being the final straw.And that one about the Miners' Strike seemed to set out to be as disjointed as possible - JG Ballard was doing stuff in that style in the '60s and although hard going at least he was a good writer.

Catweazle · Post by **Catweazle** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 10:26 pm

Apologies for the multiple postings of the same/almost same email here my computer kept saying words to the effect of "Sorry error when posting call back later" when I tried to post making me think it hadn't got through!

Post by **chameleon** » Sun 25 Jan, 2009 11:09 pm

Catweazle wrote: Apologies for the multiple postings of the same/almost same email here my computer kept saying words to the effect of "Sorry error when posting call back later" when I tried to post making me think it hadn't got through! Seems to have happened to a few people - looks like another weekend-wobble brewing

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 16 Feb, 2009 4:30 pm

At the Cottage Road Cinema:THE RED RIDING TRILOGYUnique advance screening of the three films based on Leeds writer David Peace’s novels.Starring David Morrisey, Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Sean Bean, Paddy Considine, Lesley Sharpe, Maxine Peake, Jim Carter, David Calder and Saskia ReevesShowing on Sunday 1st March 1974 at 1.45pm 1980 at 4.00pm 1983 at 8.00pmTickets £5 per film, all ages or see all three for £12