Book Review - The Thin Man (Dashiell Hammett)

[cybermule]

I read this on holiday, enjoyed it as a great period piece, but I think it was otherwise dull. Mostly what I remembered was enough drinking to make my liver ache by proxy, and a big chunk of info on Alfred Packer which i greatly enjoyed. It reminded me of Sin City, but I didn't actually enjoy it as much. Apparently "Red harvest" is much better - I'll give that a try at some point.

In other news, book club is still good and I have yet to want to kill anyone (and I'm not just saying that to cover my tracks because I know they might be reading). Long may this last. I will write off my bad goth experience in Exeter and embrace my dark side ;)

Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

You have to remember that we're all rubbish at g*th.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yes - that's what I like about you :) Like I said, always got branded as g*th myself. Never really got it as I liked dreads, combats, amigas and Hardware. Then I got utterly crucified by the pretty-goth clique at Exeter when I was at uni and it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Also, was the lady sat next to me GIRFAN? I added her as an LJ friend, but her privacy settings set my browser into a loop that I could not be arsed to rectify. Say hi to her for me if it was :)

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Then I got utterly crucified by the pretty-goth clique at Exeter when I was at uni and it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Ah yes. It was a good thing I'd been a goth for a long time before I moved to Manchester, because there were more than a few people on the scene there that were like that. As it was, I was just horrible back to them, something that had clearly never happened before (I think I was supposed to burst into tears or something).

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

You probably were supposed to cry, yes. They mostly seemed to thrive on high drama. At 19 I was a bit of a sensitive flower to be honest, so it put me off. These days I'm a little more doughty so I thought I'd give a try to what actually sounded like an excellent book club.

[janinemarriott.livejournal.com]

Yeah, goth scenes can be like that. We are the other kind of goth not the bitchy kind.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

LOL. You are the universal set that is goth, excluding those members in the subset "bitchy goth". Which works for me. Even at 19 or 20 I couldn't engage with bitchery.