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Finally got around to reading this. A Brazilian punk covered in tattoos who I romanced briefly and who subsequently went and got herself a boob-job which I have to admit rather threw me, bought it for me. It's a series of quotes rather than continuous text, which put me off. It is though an extremely vivid account of a seminal moment in culture. Full of drugs, death and undesirables, qualities I greatly admire. I ripped through it.
I've also read Orwell's 'Coming Up For Air'. I love George but I don't think he's a natural author. His talents are elsewhere. It wasn't bad. I also re-read '1984', which makes me swallow my words. That's just all kinds of potent, and full of menace. The restrictiveness/absurdity of relations he forecasts is pretty much where we're at now. I don't care for novels but I make an exception here.