David Peace, Novelist

But seriously though, Geoffrey Boycott

Michael Parkinson. Who knows what goes on beneath that suave exterior?

In the morning I get out of bed.
Right out of the bed.
Not half out of bed.
Right out of bed.

I look at the bed and I try to get as far away from it as possible.

Boycott has potential, that 100th century scenario was pretty dramatic

Potential for a David Peace spoof, at any rate

Leeds United FC: Their Decline And Fall

WHAT I'VE LEARNED THIS WEEK

The learning.
The doing.
The week.
The football. Always the football.

He was learning. Teaching. Learning -

HOW TO MANAGE.

His Wiki entry says that he's planning a book about Geoffrey Boycott next.

good, Geoff's one of the most enduring and weirdly engaging characters in post-war British sport

To be entitled "The Corridor of Uncertainty", hopefully.

Ha ha, no way, you're joking?!??!?

No that was from my own brane.

No, I meant about him writing a book about Geoffrey Boycott!

I briefly considered writing a "The Damned Rovers" parody, detailing Roy Race's brief stay as a player at Melborough. Someone else can steal that idea if they have any joeks.

"The Damned Rangers", detailing Paul le Guen's tenure at Ibrox could certainly work

x-post I really hope it's true too that would be amazing.

btw speaking of things that are incredibly Yorkshire, check this

the actual Roy of the Rovers went a bit bleak and gritty on its unsuccessful relaunch

Louis, that is fucking top.

Also check out this one for a) a moment of hilarious racist commentary and b) a line about two female darts-players that makes Alan Partridge seem dignified

HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAH HAHAHAH HAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHHAH AHHAHAHA ... god. Yorkshire. The seventies. Yorkshire in the seventies. (NB: as a Lancashire twat, I'm certainly not saying Lancashire was any fucking better.)

Sometimes the 70s actually were like "the 70s"

That IS hilarious - new display name ahoy.

I was waiting for someone to do that. You win the SPECIAL PRIZE: a half-drunk pint of mild with a dollop of Fred Trueman's pipe-baccy-flavoured spit floating on top (NB: spit may not be authentic Trueman slobber; flavour may be B&H).

I'll see tha'

Thee

Actually what does he say at the beginning? "Now then"?

If so, that is how i am going to open all my conversations from now on.

Actually what does he say at the beginning? "Now then"?

That's Jimmy Saville, another possible subject for the pen of David Peace

Guy on Facebook sez Haines' memoir has Peace foreword where Peace claims to have listened to loads of Auteurs records to get himself in a murder-book-writin' frame of mind

always kind of assumed given Peace's stern i-hate-films-and-comedy stance that Haines' admiration/writing of bad songs about Leeds would of been unwelcome

GB84. Read it now. Oh, you can't - it's not out for another fortnight.

::hugs own proof copy like a miser::

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:54 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is the worst post ever btw

I'd love to have been able to read The Damned Utd from the persepctive of having no knowledge of football or who Brian Clough was, wonder how it would read

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Tom D.), Thursday, January 8, 2009 1:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dyou reckon it would work? i have the vaguest idea of who clough was -- soundbitey football manager -- but this is basically me; would i like the book?

(fucking five years since i started this thread and still haven't turned page one of a peace book. fuck this phd imo.)

xpost

ye gods

love thread's first reply it is perfect well only when followed by the second

But such a great set up for the follow-ups.

Just ordered the Quartet on Amazon. Am gonna try to read 'em quickly, though "The Rest is Noise" is still on the go after six months so we'll see.

Enrique, I know about as much about football as you and I got along fine.

xp

my non-thesis reading is 'homicide: a year on the killing streets', to be followed by haines, as it goes, so it is a logical progression. the quartet does look tasty.

i'm waiting to see Homocide cheap enough somewhere to be an impulse buy. Same with the Haines really. Even though I can't stand the guy's music.

i bought n/homicide not long after starting this thread - cheaper but uglier object. it's very good.

‘A compelling read, part Oswald Spengler, part Spike Milligan, and very, very funny.‘ - David Peace

Peace channeling Alison Graham

Just ordered the Quartet on Amazon. Am gonna try to read 'em quickly, though "The Rest is Noise" is still on the go after six months so we'll see.

― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Friday, 9 January 2009 11:52 (1 week ago) Bookmark

I finished the lot in a week. Feel kinda weird now.

Am starting GB84 tomorrow.

Dude could do with a new author photo though. The current one looks a bit A A Gill.

Tokyo Year Zero is really good but typically bewildering towards the end

Understating wildly.

The other D. Peace thread gets at his sometimes confusing endings. It has spoilers though, don't look if you haven't read the books:

David Peace

The quartet are being sold for £4 each on amazon, so I got them and a book about Stalin for £20, bargain. I've wanted to read Peace since I saw a documentary about him a good few years ago (was really taken with the idea him researching Yorkshire in a Tokyo library) but never got round to it.

i read 1974 last night in one insomniac sitting. Thought it was excellent and quite unrelentingly violent and grim and can't help but think the TV adaptation is going to pull a few punches and ruin it. Going to start on 1977 after I do a bit of hoovering and make some bolognese.

Peace writing in Observer Sport Mag yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/feb/01/rio-ferdinand-world-club-championship

im reassured that rebecca hall is in the tv show.

Before xmas when I was back in Newcastle they had cheap copies of Tokyo: Year Zero everywhere but now I'm back in London I haven't seen one anywhere.

finished the quartet today, definitely going to check some of his other books soon. Although the style did get sort of start sliding in to self-parody after a while through the sheer repetition of, well, repetition.

x and y
y and x
x
y
and
x
and
y

yeah boycott i would read

holy shit red riding

the TV one I mean

everyone otm up thread about the flaws but still p superior stuff IMO despite not hearing any dialogue nor knowing why 1980 was even made tbh nor why nothing was explained and wait are we meant to be cheering for David Morrissey now cos fuck that

but still really enjoyed anyway.

David Morrissey is good.

oh yeah agreed but the character like

ah i can't remember who he was really. totally weird that i followed about 30% of this but still liked it.

just finished GB84 (it only hit US bookshops a few months ago a bit after red or dead's release here). arguably his hardest book to follow aside from nineteen eighty-three but completely worth it. I'd call it his bleakest book, but also arguably his best written.

I've now read all his books except the football ones, bc like GB84 they weren't available easily in the states till recently. are they worth a look? hearing v mixed stuff about red or dead, especially due to its style.

Adaptation(s) of red riding probably deserve more longstanding recognition

i didn't like them very much.

stoked for peace's plans on a novel about geoffrey boycott

red or dead is peace's masterwork for me. but you have to enjoy reading long passages of succinct football results

Hey.
I know I need a late-pass, but I'm 3/4 through the Red Riding novels and am enjoying them, if one can enjoy something so unremittingly bleak. the unanswered questions from book to book and the introduction of a new protagonist with each novel were pretty neat in that they were frustrating at first but I also find the unknown qualities and contexts pretty compelling too.

should i watch the films? opinions seem mixed with most upthread finding them a bit of a drag.

I thought they were brilliant

I've been watching the films, now. They are pretty good! Bordering on very good, but still borderline incomprehsible.

good to see he finally finished the tokyo trilogy. very good ending imo though will likely be incomprehensible to those who weren’t already fans of his style

Red Riding trilogy films are easily watched within the month of free BritBox subscription offer.