UKRM Book Club

For a snippet of why Geoff Dyer is a great, great writer, read him on
the Olympics, in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Sport/olympics2004/story/0,14912,1296481,00.html

 

Ben Blaney secured a place in history by writing:

One of the reasons I like Firefox: I have an extension installed that gives
you right-click dictionary definitions, which come in very handy when you
encounter words like 'chthonic'.....

Agree entirely, although he's not by any means the only great writer in the
Guardian - I think it's had the highest standards of journalism of all the
broadsheets for a long time now and I hardly ever look at another
newspaper.

For a long time my gym got complimentary copies of the Guardian, which was
nice to settle down with in the bar after a session of whatever. But
they've recently struck a new deal, so now we get free copies of....the
Daily Mail. What an utterly, utterly shit newspaper it is, everything I
hate about parochial, bigoted, scared of its own shadow middle-
England....just appalling. And Fred Basset...FFS, must be the unfunniest
comic strip in the history of ink...

 

What about Ogri?

 

Gunga Dan wrote:

Oh I'm glad it's not just me....

 

Gunga Dan secured a place in history by writing:

By comparison, Ogri has me on the floor in stitches. At least the drawings
are vaguely amusing, Fred Basset could have been drawn by a 10 year old.
Or me, even.

 

That's one unfunny cartoon. Don't suppose I've seen it since I was a kid.

Matt.. now Matt rocks.