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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 14, 2011 10:15:08 GMT 1
last year i read his 'tokyo year zero' and was blown away. the missus got me his '1977' and '1974' (from the yorkshire/red riding quartet). i've finished 74 and thought it was brilliant, halfway through 77 and it's just as good.
very bleak, noirish and 'grim oop north'. very well, as good as any literary work i've read and more extreme than a lot of crime i've read. they deal with murder but mainly the effects that has on the police and reporters working around them, also a lot on police and government corruption.
the red riding quartet was turned into a three episode series on channel 4 which apparantly had a theatrical release in the US. only saw some of the first but will watch them when i've read all the books.
Peace also wrote 'the damned utd' about leeds utd under brian clough and from reading this i actually want to give that a go now.
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Post by karswell on Jun 14, 2011 13:19:22 GMT 1
The Red Riding Trilogy was brilliant TV, intense, hard-hitting stuff. Read THe Damned United which was amazing - basically just a stream of consciousness. Met him at Durham Book Festival last year and got a signed copy og GB 1984 - about the miners strike. Still lurking on the TBR pile but am looking forward to it (though his books can be hard work - in a good way! - to read).
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 14, 2011 15:28:33 GMT 1
looking forward to 84 after i read a non-fiction book re the miners strike last year
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Post by benedictjjones on Jun 15, 2011 11:24:02 GMT 1
finished 77 and while i didn't feel the end was as good as 74 it was still brilliant stuff. i liked how lots of little links were made between 74 and 77 and will be interested to see if the links carry on in 80 (particually the use of room 27 at the Redbeck Motel!)
in many ways 77 could be considered more of a 'horror' novel than 74 and i was interested in the similarities between jack whitehead's 'ghosts' in 77 and the 'ghosts' that haunt Usher in McMahon's 'Pretty Little Dead things'
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Post by benedictjjones on Jul 28, 2011 11:34:38 GMT 1
halfway through 1980 and really enjoying it. i'll post comments when i'm finished.
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Post by benedictjjones on Jul 29, 2011 0:00:11 GMT 1
finished 80 - a brilliant book full of dark apocalyptic vision. peace really is an amazing writer. the ripper is finally caught and although a lot of the threads from the previous books are tied up it is in peace's usual amiguous way. really need to get my hands on the next one now.
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Post by benedictjjones on Aug 22, 2011 11:09:25 GMT 1
almost finished '1983' and all i can say is wow - threads being drawn together, secrets finally being thrown into the light and most importantly, stylistically, an amazing read. peace is, for me at least, one of the heavyweights of modern english literature.
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Post by benedictjjones on Oct 15, 2011 14:58:05 GMT 1
picked up 'occupied city' and once i've finished a couple of short story collections i'm reading i shall start on it and post my thoughts
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Post by benedictjjones on Oct 29, 2011 11:58:49 GMT 1
struggled with the start of occupied city, put it down and intend to go back to it at some point soon. oddly structured (apparantly in the same fashion as a short story called Rashomon).
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Post by benedictjjones on Jan 31, 2012 13:08:58 GMT 1
started 'GB84' yesterday, so far absoloutely brilliant!
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