![]() ![]() ![]() The other day, after watching a really good film, I was thinking about this feeling I get when I'm watching or reading something I am beginning to realise I love (usually after going into it with low/vague expectations). The essays hang together remarkably well, given the disparity of their subjects. ![]() It is non-fiction, but the fact that I even entertained that thought shows how powerful it is as a narrative. Partway through the book I found myself struck by the destabilising thought that perhaps it was a novel, and the apparently non-fictitious nature of the book was somehow a very elaborate ruse. If it'd been part of a novel I'd have found it unrealistic I'd have thought no real interview could ever be that insightful, that revealing. ![]() The interview with electronic musician Burial is extraordinary. It's a reading of the world through the lens of pop culture. This book has introduced me to entirely new ways of looking at and thinking about pop culture. It is essentially a collection of essays about music, TV, film and novels, but it feels like something much bigger and more significant is shifting beneath its skin. But Ghosts of My Life might truly deserve that epithet. I struggle to see how even the most brilliant and memorable books I've read have actually changed me. Despite the fact that I spend a lot of my free time reading, I'm not the sort of person who goes around saying books have 'changed my life'. ![]()
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