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counterlanguage · #**241** 19-09-2010, 15:05

Erm, did he actually watch/listen to a single Richey interview, so he could get some impression of his personality?

I'm surprised he doesn't follow up the 'jovial punch' with giving Lamacq a wedgie.

Slideling · #**242** 19-09-2010, 15:20

K, I liked the style of your writing? I'm not sure if I mean it visually or the words, haha. I'd be more likely to read a fictional novel if you wrote it.

hey! · #**243** 19-09-2010, 16:06

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Originally Posted by counterlanguage

Erm, did he actually watch/listen to a single Richey interview, so he could get some impression of his personality?

I'm surprised he doesn't follow up the 'jovial punch' with giving Lamacq a wedgie.

Lol! Yeah, it is a bit shit.

keeley · #**244** 19-09-2010, 16:35

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Originally Posted by counterlanguage

Erm, did he actually watch/listen to a single Richey interview, so he could get some impression of his personality?

I'm surprised he doesn't follow up the 'jovial punch' with giving Lamacq a wedgie.

You realize that the bit about the jovial punch isn't actually in the book? It was just a member here taking the piss.

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Originally Posted by Richian

K, I liked the style of your writing? I'm not sure if I mean it visually or the words, haha. I'd be more likely to read a fictional novel if you wrote it.

Hahaha! Well, thank you

hey! · #**245** 19-09-2010, 17:09

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You realize that the bit about the jovial punch isn't actually in the book? It was just a member here taking the piss.

Ah but does it matter?

Surely this book is open to be slightly rewritten or misquoted all over the place by its very nature of slightly misrepresenting and misquoting someone else.

counterlanguage · #**246** 20-09-2010, 12:03

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You realize that the bit about the jovial punch isn't actually in the book? It was just a member here taking the piss.

Ha, I was tired yesterday afternoon. It's still shit though.

Dancing Kirby · #**247** 20-09-2010, 20:36

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010...reet-preachers

MarilynRoxie · #**248** 21-09-2010, 00:44

An interview I'd done with Ben Myers about Richard is up on A Future in Noise today (following the book review I'd done last month):
http://www.afutureinnoise.com/2010/0...ben-myers.html

Tetsuo · #**249** 21-09-2010, 03:01

I read that and he doesn't come across as that bad. He doesn't really make that great a case for why he wrote the book but he answers the criticism the interviewer gave him all the same. I'm interested.

Quite what market he thought this would be for is anyone's guess. Some will have bought it out of habit or collectivism but the fans that "hold a monopoly" over Richey as he says can't be reaching into their pockets to buy this are they?

topical · #**250** 21-09-2010, 14:41

The fans who like to think they hold a monopoly are probably the very ones who will buy this, so that they can bitch about it and tell themselves that this author doesn't understand Richey as well as they do. Which is kind of ironic really...both sets of people dealing with a fictionalised version of what they imagine Richey was like...

Slideling · #**251** 21-09-2010, 19:51

So far I've only seen fans commending it (amongst those who are still into them, and have read it.)

I suppose it's like people's disappointment of PFAYIM, I wish I could like it because I usually like a) Light reads b) Richey-related projects. I'm expecting myself to like it.

I don't know why, but something about the book makes it seem like such a task, I have heavier books which I'm more enthusiastic to try to get through.

counterlanguage · #**252** 29-09-2010, 15:32

Just spotted this interview with Ben Myers.

Ben · #**253** 29-09-2010, 16:00

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Jesus Christ that extract is awful

Yep. I appreciate it's fiction, but does anyone really think Richey ever thought like that? I've got a string of much more interesting books to read.

counterlanguage · #**254** 29-09-2010, 16:03

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Yep. I appreciate it's fiction, but does anyone really think Richey ever thought like that? I've got a string of much more interesting books to read.

Indeed. Don't buy it, get yourself a library card and read some of these instead. You'll learn more about Richey that way.

franny · #**255** 20-10-2010, 16:47

So has anyone actually read it properly, save those who have reviewed it. Can I push the boat out and say I really, really like it, it's amazing, so well written, pretty well researched and very insightful, he captures Richey amazingly for someone who never met him. I think it was very respectful and quite a tribute to him without being too reverential.

Well done Mr Myers, I thoroughly enjoyed it, t'was a gripping read.