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05-03-2007, 05:13 AM
|  | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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| | | Angry young men
Please recommend things by and about angry young (and old) men (and women) in here, but I am particularly interested in angry young proletarians done good, like John Osborne and Tony Harrison, rather than any angsty feminist crap or Germaine Greer and Elizabeth Wurtzel, for example. "The Catcher in the Rye" and just about anything and everything by Harold Pinter would be far more appropriate to what I am thinking of.
Two of my favourite books are "The Life of Kingsley Amis" by Zachary Leader and "Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise" by John Osborne (which mainly consists of "A Better Class of Person: An Autobiography, 1929-1956" and "Almost a Gentleman: An Autobiography, 1955-66"). I enjoyed Anthony Thwaite's "Selected Letters of Philip Larkin" and "Philip Larkin: A Life" more than I ever have any of Larkin's poetry. I 'like' "Puntila" by Brecht and "The Kitchen" by Arnold Wesker and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.  |
05-03-2007, 02:01 PM
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| | | i used to speak to alan silitoe on the phone when i worked in a rare books shop. he lived nearby, but never came in. bit of a hermit i believe
i think john updike's the centaur is almost an angry young man book, though the narration is shared by the father as well as his son. best updike i've ever read |
05-03-2007, 02:38 PM
| | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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Originally Posted by kesh  i used to speak to alan silitoe on the phone when i worked in a rare books shop. he lived nearby, but never came in. bit of a hermit i believe
i think john updike's the centaur is almost an angry young man book, though the narration is shared by the father as well as his son. best updike i've ever read | I've read it. mwah. mwah mwah. |
05-03-2007, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by nigella I've read it. mwah. mwah mwah. | did it give you psoriasis? |
05-03-2007, 02:43 PM
| | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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Originally Posted by kesh did it give you psoriasis? | no. it really gave me the horn, though.
I often refer to "rabbit is rich" when I am talking about money being freudo-marxist for shit. "the bubbles multiplied like coins..." I am in no fit state to talk. how is kesh? he's a cutie. I hate my writing. "the loneliness of the long distance runner" is probably my favourite british film.
tell me something. mwah. |
05-03-2007, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by nigella tell me something. mwah. | ok. my cunt's all greasy |
05-03-2007, 02:46 PM
| | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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Originally Posted by kesh ok. my cunt's all greasy | is it wet |
05-03-2007, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by nigella is it wet | no, it's greasy stupid.
i have to go in seconds, to see the devil's backbone |
05-03-2007, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by kesh no, it's greasy stupid.
i have to go in seconds, to see the devil's backbone | you cunt. you make my arse sore |
05-03-2007, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by nigella you cunt. you make my arse sore | I'm oily, not greasy. |
05-03-2007, 02:55 PM
| | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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Originally Posted by Nigella Lawson I'm oily, not greasy. | you're lucky jim |
05-04-2007, 01:42 AM
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| | Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey.
She also wrote Dance with a Stranger, film based on the story of Ruth Ellis. 
Has anyone mentioned Joe Orton? |
05-04-2007, 03:01 AM
| | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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Originally Posted by ironhills Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey.
She also wrote Dance with a Stranger, film based on the story of Ruth Ellis.
Has anyone mentioned Joe Orton? | I've seen the film by tony richardson, but I haven't read the play yet. seen "dance". love joe orton a bit. mwah. great recommendations. |
05-04-2007, 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted by nigella you're lucky jim | ba-tschsh!
sick sick sick to death of joe orton. there's some kind of orton fest going on here. have you tried reading head to toe??! |
05-04-2007, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by kesh ba-tschsh!
sick sick sick to death of joe orton. there's some kind of orton fest going on here. have you tried reading head to toe??! | no, gay. but I want to now. went to see "mr. sloane" at the cinema just the other week. what is our best film? |
05-04-2007, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by nigella no, gay. but I want to now. went to see "mr. sloane" at the cinema just the other week. what is our best film? | "our best film"? that would be the opening credits to my neighbour totoro:
Let's go for a walk! Let's go for a walk! I feel great!
I love to walk!
Let's get going now!
On slopes, streets, tunnels, marvelous grass...
On Japanese bridges, gravel roads....
On cloudy days, down sloping streets...
Let's go for a walk! Let's go for a walk! I feel great!
I love to walk!
Let's get going now!
Even the foxes... even the badgers... come on out |
05-04-2007, 01:32 PM
| | lethal nizzle | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: south
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| | | do you support west ham or something? xx |
05-04-2007, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by nigella do you support west ham or something? xx | football is gay, but i'm pretty sure foxes is leicester city, orton's hometown as well as colin wilson's, another angry young man |
05-04-2007, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by kesh football is gay, but i'm pretty sure foxes is leicester city, orton's hometown as well as colin wilson's, another angry young man | don't papa roach come from leicester, as well? how's boatlife (as opposed to nigel's shitty parklife)? are you tired? xx |
05-04-2007, 01:48 PM
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