A book that is quite bad is BACHELOR KISSES. The thing is, you see the book and think - oh, that must be a well-known phrase, then. But then you read the book and the narrator talks about listening to the Go-Betweens; and the author is from Brisbane. And you think - oh. The relative badness of the book does not affect the excellence of the record, of course. I wanted to buy the book for the Cookie, to encourage him to read. A bit like Actor Ross Kemp doing his bit for literacy. But the book was only available as part of a set of other bad books. Sorry, Cookie. This reminds me: does the B&S Go-Betweens song really exist, or did someone make it up to get Cookie all excited? A book that is quite good is Paul Muldoon's POEMS 1968-1998. The reason it is quite good is to be found on pp. 370 and 414. On p.370 we find the lines "she was now deeply into Lloyd Cole [...] Lloyd 'King' Cole, she'd dubbed him...". And on p.414, amidst a series of references to pop music, we find a reference to LLOYD COLE AND THE COMMOTIONS: EASY PIECES. My editor doesn't care for Muldoon. I daresay that that's understandable. But we can forgive him something, I think, for these Lloyd Cole references. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+