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      CommentAuthorEmilia
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2010
     
    http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/10/culley

    "A suburban lad tells how he found guts, glory and a sustainable transit option in the renegade world of bike messengers."

    It was published about 10 years ago. Has anyone read it? Heard of it? Should I try and get hold of a copy?

    (Maybe there's a reason no one's ever mentioned it...)
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      CommentAuthor1+1/8
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2010
     
    read the first half, got a bit bored,
    it's not badly written, he just tends to side track onto boring parts of his life (if you're a struggling artist, you may associate more than i did)
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2010
     
    It's okay - I doubt any of us will write anything better - but a bit self-obsessed and buys too easily into the mythos. These are faults that could be aimed at many of us, and one of the reasons that I decided I wouldn't write the definitive courier book just yet... got to get some distance and perspective on it all.
    Don't go out of your way to find it.
    Previously discussed here: http://www.movingtargetzine.com/forum/discussion/854/can-you-do-this/#Item_9
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      CommentAuthorEmilia
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2010
     
    Ah. I did do a search before posting - clearly not a very good one.

    Doesn't sound all that awesome then. I'll go back to Deux Seconds.
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    You should've been at Papillon's Alleycat, Arsen won a copy of it for DFL.

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      CommentAuthorcurly
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2010
     
    zero you are a hero im looking forward to your book,count one copy sold
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      CommentAuthorzero cc
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2010
     
    Thanks curly, that will be £399.99 in advance please. So far all I have is the title: Licking the Frog. You can have that for free.
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      CommentAuthorchandra
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2010 edited
     
    Hey Emilia
    It was more or less readable and I finished it. He did however come across as a massive dick, pretty self grandiose.
    Sunk to the depths of being a courier, he becomes the best one there is ever, finds himself and then beats the system by becoming something better than a courier etc..
    Also there was a the truly memorable line were he tells us couriers can see in to the future ''We like totally predict the traffic man'' or some such nonesense.
    I think a child can predict the next logical step of any given sequence, oh look there's a car it might hit me.
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      CommentAuthorEmilia
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2010
     
    I've heard the 'seeing into the future line' all over the place. Probably even used it myself. I doubt he invented it.

    If I ever wrote a book about couriers, it would be about what losers they are. No one will be expecting that.
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      CommentAuthorBuffalo Bill
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2010 edited
     
    The author made himself less than popular within the US messenger scene, and particularly in Chicago.

    http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/shoot-the-messenger/Content?oid=904974

    I never met the guy, but some of my friends were less than impressed by his behaviour, in particular Rebecca Reilly.

    http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/messenger-heroes-number-3-rebecca-lambchop-reilly

    I did read the book, and I have to say that some of the writing was very good indeed, but a lot of it was tripe. I also found the fact that he devoted an entire chapter to him winning an alleycat pretty... err ... well, it's not something I would do.
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      CommentAuthorEmilia
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2010
     
    Hmmmm, well, forget that.

    But does anyone have a copy of Nerves Of Steel I could borrow?