Advantages: My favourite album Disadvantages: Alas, Dubstar are no more
This is Dubstar's debut album, released in 1995, and is favourite album of all time. I wish Ciao would download the album cover to show alongside this review because that itself is a work of art, but the music is obviously the most important thing and that is excellent. It's difficult to compare Dubstar with other artists, although they are often mentioned alongside acts like New Order, Morrissey, Pet Shop Boys or St Etienne. At first listen their music sounds like cheery electro-pop, but the lyrics are often dark and tell stories of relationship breakdowns. Disgraceful is definitely my favourite of their three albums as the quality of the songs is so consistently high. The cherry on the cake is Sarah Blackwood's vocals, which are best described as an angel with a Yorkshire accent.
1. STARS - "We'll take our hearts outside ...
Advantages: Great characters, great storyline, thought-provoking Disadvantages: First read might be a little hard, need of background knowledge
Author
J.M. Coetzee was born on February 9, 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa. After having spent some years in England and Texas he went back to South Africa in 1971 and immigrated to Australia in 2002, where he now teaches at the University of Adelaide.
He started publishing in 1974 and up to now has written 21 books. He was awarded the Booker Prize twice, the second one for 'Disgrace' in 1999, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Background
Disgrace is set during the aftermath of Apartheid, the policy of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1993. Although most Apartheid legislation had been eliminated between 1990 and 1992, racial segregation and discrimination still existed - despite the new Constitution and the democratic elections Apartheid had been so deeply ingrained that ...
SHARP SHARK
MARITIME MOLL
WACKY WATERWOMAN
GAY GOURMET
NAUTICAL NONSENSE
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Whatever; Gerald Samper is back, the selfsame that jumped onto the literary stage in 2004 when James Hamilton-Paterson published the novel Cooking With Fernet Branca (see my review Lethal Liqueur) and took the reading public by storm, not only the English one, meanwhile the book has been translated into 21 languages.
Amazing Disgrace is the sequel, as you may have experienced yourself it's better to be wary of sequels of highly successful books, it has happened more than once that the second book doesn't hold a candle to the first, let's see what is the case here. Amazing Disgrace starts where and when Cooking With Fernet Branca stops, Gerald is still the misanthropic, curmudgeonly British expat living on a lonely hillside in Tuscany raging ...
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