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     David Cornyn Member Username: David_c Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2019 |
Hi, everyone. I have just joined the group but been a fan for many years. I don't know if this idea has been mooted before but I think it would great to have a list of all the books that have been sent out by Domino with the box sets. It may well be that Domino have a list written down somewhere which would alleviate the need for this thread. However, I, for one, would like to know what all the books were and it would be a useful resource for many fans to explore Grant's thinking. Of course, it may be difficult to account for all of them as not everyone will be part of this forum. Does anyone else think there is any merit in this? Ta, David. | ||
| EW Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 126 Registered: 05-2005 |
Greg Adams of this parish had a blog post for the first volume. http://musicweird.blogspot.com/2015/02/g -stands-for-go-betweens-grants-books.htm l | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1641 Registered: 10-2006 |
The “Grant book” idea was maybe one of the nicest touches in these sets. Whose was the original idea, I wonder? As the titles were mentioned by the receivers of Box 1, I remember thinking there were no big surprises, more or less what you might expect from a man of his age,interests, erudition and sensibility. Nothing, say, from the Angelique series. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9078 Registered: 05-2005 |
Stuart, I had to google "Angelique series". Having become somewhat accustomed to your sense of humour over the years, I was expecting something in the Emmanuelle ballpark, but it seems not to be the case. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 1644 Registered: 10-2006 |
So you've never seen the extravagantly gorgeous Michelle Mercier play her in the films, then, Padraig? They're very popular on Italian TV. Colourfully epic historical swashripping bodice-bucklers. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9079 Registered: 05-2005 |
I never heard of her before. We had one TV channel when I was a kid. A Lassie or Tarzan film on a Sunday afternoon was as good as it got. The rest of the time it was Mass, state funerals and solemn music. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 480 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michčle Mercier, it was not for the kids Padraig! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4281 Registered: 03-2005 |
I had to look up "Angelique series" also. I'm afraid a TV or movie series set in 17th Century France would confuse us Yanks. "Aren't Huguenots some type of fruit?" Which reminds me of a favorite anecdote in Marianne Faithfull's autobiography, from her 1964 package tour shared with a bunch of other second-tier artists including the Hollies. Marianne recalled that she lugged around a pile of books to pass the time. "The only ones not unnerved with my frosty front were Graham Nash and Allan Clarke of the Hollies. They were friendly, sunny and approachable. Allan Clarke sat down next to me at once and started chatting in his sweet Mancunian accent. 'Whatcha readin' luv?' 'Pride and Prejudice.' 'That the one with 'Eathcliff?' 'No, actually . . . .'" While the US had three major network channels at the time and most urban areas had another one or two independent stations, I grew up in a household with only one channel: Dad's channel. Friends of mine got to see the Jonathan Winters show and all sorts of other wonderful things but these did not air on Dad's channel. I credit this condition of my formative years with my love for music and books and faint interest in TV to this day. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4282 Registered: 03-2005 |
Oh, and I think the listing of books received is a great idea. I'll repeat my info given in the other thread. I received the 1995 paperback edition of "Withnail & I." Remembering Grant's ambition to become a screenwriter it makes perfect sense to me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 9080 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, you make a very interesting point. I too credit my lack of interest in television with my one channel childhood, but it never occurred to me, until now, that the corollary of that might be my musical obsession. I just figured it was some innate thing, unconnected to other factors such as a lack of TV choice. I may have to reevaluate my whole life. Or more likely I’ll just play a record/CD/tape/mp3/stream. | ||
| David Cornyn Member Username: David_c Post Number: 2 Registered: 12-2019 |
Thanks for replying, everyone. I was not aware someone else had started doing this but I imagined many of us would be interested in such a list. For what it's worth, I received "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean with the second box recently (wasn't lucky enough to get one with the first). | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4284 Registered: 03-2005 |
David, I had to research "The Orchid Thief." It's an interesting choice as it sounds like it's a bit of a rule breaker in Ms. Orlean's original book form and then was the basis for a film ("Adaptation") which might be how Grant became interested in it. Reading about the book really makes me want to actually read it. Following Grant's library as a possible suggestion source for reading might be a good idea. It sure worked for me on one occasion for music: his recommendation led me to the music of Francoiz Breut. | ||
| David Cornyn Member Username: David_c Post Number: 3 Registered: 12-2019 |
Thanks, Randy. Yes, I presumed Grant came to it via the film as well. Like you, I certainly envisaged reading several of the books in Grant's collection on the understanding that they will have informed certain songs/lyrics. I can also let you know three more books that friends received with their copies of the second box set: The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff. A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman. Raditzer by Peter Matthiessen (signed by Grant and dated '86 - an ex-library copy from "Libraries Board of South Australia). Ta, David. | ||
| EW Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 127 Registered: 05-2005 |
I got "The Sound Of History: Songs And Social Comment" by Roy Palmer | ||
| Sean Unregistered guest |
Just copying a message from Domino on the Go-Betweens Facebook. The version with one of Grant's books sold out within 1 hour and 20 minutes of going on-sale in the UK and 2 hours and 44 minutes in the US. If you ordered in that time and didn't get a book contact help@dominorecordco.com | ||
| Andrewnz Unregistered guest |
I got "Johnno", David Malouf's first novel - a good Brisbane writer. | ||
| Pete Unregistered guest |
I got, and have just finished reading, MP: The Life of Michael Peterson by Sean Doherty. "Michael Peterson, or MP as he is commonly known, ruled the surfing scene throughout the early to mid-1970s until developing paranoid schizophrenia. This is his story, covering his early life, his celebrated victories in surfing, his descent into the drugs scene, imprisonment and subsequent institutionalisation" I'd never heard of him and I don't know much about surfing, but it was a great read. Looks like I got further than Grant, he was using a postcard he'd been sent from Barcelona as a bookmark and he got as far as chapter 4. |