Did the band have a number 1 hit in any country?

orgnote it to me anx...im not playin this shit anymore

Confusion is Next: The Sonic Youth Story?

I just finished Paul Scott's The Day of the Scorpion, which is the second volume in his tetralogy, The Raj Quartet.

The ending was weird, as this new character and a new, and unforeseen, situation developed. So much of the novel focused retrospectively on the events of the first novel, The Jewel in the Crown, that it was a little jarring. But that's a result, I guess, of writing a "series" of novels. You need to allow events and characters to be introduced and unfold. And it has more the feel of a series rather than a Quartet, if that distinction makes any sense. (From what I understand, he wrote another novel several years later, Staying On, in which many of these characters return.

And that's also part of the charm of the books so far. That the events that we know so well are subject to re-interpretation by characters who come after them, or who have only heard about them as distant noise, this kind of ripple effect.

Plus there are some great set-pieces, like when Harry/Hari Coomer/Kumar is being interrogated more than a year after his incarceration, or when the Muslim leader is arrested at the very beginning. And Ronald Merrick. Wow, what an objectionable human being he is (but he gets his at the end).

I understand the comparisons to Forster's A Passage to India (it's hard to ignore the similarities), but I found it in many ways much more engaging. Part of the reason may be that it's set during a time (1942-1948/9) that is much more interesting (the Partition of India as the British leave) and that I don't know as much about as I should.

I look forward to reading The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils.

ZombieKitten said:

she's a very funny writer.

Stax said:

NO, but i looked for that at the library this week and couldn't find it.

Anxiety said:

Damn.

DanceWme said:

ok, this clue will either give it all away or make things more confusing:

the female in the band was kinda involved in a hit duet pop single with mariah carey.

Talking Heads bio?

"The Name of this Book Is Talking Heads?"

is the band the tom tom club?

2the9s said:

almost!

Anxiety said:

Tom Tom Club I'm right! Talking Heads. but I don't know the name of the book, so I'm gonna let someone else win.
[Edited 1/10/07 18:23pm]

NDRU said:

i don't believe i've ever heard that book title before.

Gladys Knight and the pips

Talking Heads by Jerome Davis?

David Byrne & Talking Heads: Tutti I Testi 1975-1994?

NDRU said:

After all my questions!!!! crap!

Anxiety said:

It's just a yes or no question.

There are a lot of books about the Talking Heads. Who knew?

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
The Stories Behind Every Song
by Ian Gittins

But I been said talkin heads. Check the first page.

Thats not fair

DanceWme said:

This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the Twentieth Century

Once in a Lifetime

coolcat said:

ok ok

The Complete Talking Heads by David Bowman
[Edited 1/10/07 18:30pm]

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime: The Stories Behind Every Song by Ian Gittins and Talking Heads

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime by Ian Gittins

DanceWme said:

what, did he runn out capri-suns again?

is the book you are reading The Complete Talking Heads by David Bowman?