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| The hardest working book group in Hove look back on another year of culture |
Another splendid evening of bonhomie, insight, incisive discourse, lovely food, wine, and ales, also saw the results of the Hove Book Group review of 2014.
To a gasp of amazement from Tristan, "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax was voted the best book we read in 2014. Here's the complete run down...
1. "The Railway Man" by Eric Lomax
2. "The Lowlife" by Alexander Baron
2. "Between The Woods and the Water" by Patrick Leigh Fermor
4. "White Noise" by Don DeLillo
5. "Last exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby, Jr.
6. "Quiet" by Susan Cain
7. "The Rehearsal" by Eleanor Catton
8. "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom
9. "The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine" by Henry A. Giroux
Our occasional musical selections saw Primal Scream share the honours with the late, great Ian Dury..
1="Screamadelica" (1991) by Primal Scream
1="Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Very Best Of Ian Dury & The Blockheads" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads (1999)
3. "XO" (1998) by Elliott Smith
4. Muzsikás Feat. Marta Sebestyen "Fly Bird Fly - Very Best of”
5. "Pure Heroine" (2013) by Lorde
2. "Between The Woods and the Water" by Patrick Leigh Fermor
4. "White Noise" by Don DeLillo
5. "Last exit to Brooklyn" by Hubert Selby, Jr.
6. "Quiet" by Susan Cain
7. "The Rehearsal" by Eleanor Catton
8. "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom
9. "The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine" by Henry A. Giroux
Our occasional musical selections saw Primal Scream share the honours with the late, great Ian Dury..
1="Screamadelica" (1991) by Primal Scream
1="Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Very Best Of Ian Dury & The Blockheads" by Ian Dury & The Blockheads (1999)
3. "XO" (1998) by Elliott Smith
4. Muzsikás Feat. Marta Sebestyen "Fly Bird Fly - Very Best of”
5. "Pure Heroine" (2013) by Lorde
The mention of Muzsikás prompting a hearty guffaw from Tristan.
And cinematically, there was one runaway leader....
1. "London - The Modern Babylon" (2012) by Julien Temple
2="All The Presidents Men" (1976) - directed by Alan J. Pakula
2= "Scum" (1979) directed by Alan Clarke
4 "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014) directed by Wes Anderson
4. "Requiem for a Dream" (2000) by Darren Aronofsky
6 "The Virgin Suicides" (1999) dir Sofia Coppola
1. "London - The Modern Babylon" (2012) by Julien Temple
2="All The Presidents Men" (1976) - directed by Alan J. Pakula
2= "Scum" (1979) directed by Alan Clarke
4 "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014) directed by Wes Anderson
4. "Requiem for a Dream" (2000) by Darren Aronofsky
6 "The Virgin Suicides" (1999) dir Sofia Coppola
Nick mentioned, via email, that 2014 had not been a vintage year for HBG and this prompted much soul searching. Is it better to read great books and have consensus in the group, or to chose more divisive books that perhaps do not linger in the memory? We all erred towards the former and resolved to up our game in 2015, the year of our tenth anniversary.
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