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Jabberwocky
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Yeah from what I remember did he not used to knock those little skittle children over in his car all the time and they enjoyed it?
It has been a while since I watched it but I remember that.
It has been a while since I watched it but I remember that.
B9
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Anyone read Gormenghast ?
If so - thoughts please.
If so - thoughts please.
Shambles
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Last night I read The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker (yes, that Tom Baker). It was bloody marvellous :D.
It's one of those classic gruesome, gothic, Roald Dahl-ish, Tim Burton-esque, morality-tale kids books that's probably even better for adults. Actually, you'd have to be a pretty open-minded parent to use it as a bedtime book for bubbikins. The (comedic, but oh-so-very-dark) body-count is in the hundreds! It also has a surprising amount of swearing (particularly strategic dropping of the word "arse" at vital moments) for what is ostensibly a kids book.
Tom Baker has a wonderful way with words and you can hear his voice narrating every sentence. You can't argue with lines like "Oh yes, pigs can fly - if you kick them hard enough!" Pure class :D. There are so many lines that had me rolling around with laughter that I've managed to forget most of the choice quotes I was going to use to entice. Hey-ho.
Grab it if you see it - it's great! I got it for a quid from a second-hand book stall. A hardback first edition for a quid - can't complain
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Oh, and the illustrations (one for every page of text) are also gloriously gruesome in that scratchy, pen & ink, children's book illustration kind of way.
PS - Don't look at the Wiki entry - it just gives away the entire plot (and the end) and says nothing else at all![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
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It's one of those classic gruesome, gothic, Roald Dahl-ish, Tim Burton-esque, morality-tale kids books that's probably even better for adults. Actually, you'd have to be a pretty open-minded parent to use it as a bedtime book for bubbikins. The (comedic, but oh-so-very-dark) body-count is in the hundreds! It also has a surprising amount of swearing (particularly strategic dropping of the word "arse" at vital moments) for what is ostensibly a kids book.
Tom Baker has a wonderful way with words and you can hear his voice narrating every sentence. You can't argue with lines like "Oh yes, pigs can fly - if you kick them hard enough!" Pure class :D. There are so many lines that had me rolling around with laughter that I've managed to forget most of the choice quotes I was going to use to entice. Hey-ho.
Grab it if you see it - it's great! I got it for a quid from a second-hand book stall. A hardback first edition for a quid - can't complain
.Oh, and the illustrations (one for every page of text) are also gloriously gruesome in that scratchy, pen & ink, children's book illustration kind of way.
PS - Don't look at the Wiki entry - it just gives away the entire plot (and the end) and says nothing else at all
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Halfway through Para 3 by Patrick Bishop - about, surprise, surprise, deployment of 3rd Para in Helmand Provence, Afghanistan for 6 months in 2006. Not the best of reads, seems like he wasn't actually there with him but got all his action second hand when they came back to Blighty so if they were involved in a long 6 hour contact, instead of all the details he basically just says "they were that day involved in a 6 hour contact" and then gives a bit of detail about casualties. If someone dies you never hear from them cause of this, the first time you know they exist is reading about them dying.
Not sure if I'll persist til the end, thinking about it really is quite a crap book, pity cause I enjoyed Bomber Boys by same author.
The reason I bought this book is that a few months ago I bought a book by some Sniper Platoon Leader (he's a sargeant), can't remember the name of book or author now and gave it away to a mate, and he told of his tour in Southern Iraq. Was at the time when that Mad Mullah's army, Army of Mehdi or something, was kicking off, was a cracking read - plenty of the old ultraviolence and a good first hand account. Haven't read anything else up to now on Britain's "occupation" of that part of the world so thought I'd give it a go.
Not sure if I'll persist til the end, thinking about it really is quite a crap book, pity cause I enjoyed Bomber Boys by same author.
The reason I bought this book is that a few months ago I bought a book by some Sniper Platoon Leader (he's a sargeant), can't remember the name of book or author now and gave it away to a mate, and he told of his tour in Southern Iraq. Was at the time when that Mad Mullah's army, Army of Mehdi or something, was kicking off, was a cracking read - plenty of the old ultraviolence and a good first hand account. Haven't read anything else up to now on Britain's "occupation" of that part of the world so thought I'd give it a go.
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Anarchism, Marxism, and the Future of the Left by Murray Bookchin.
I never read Murray Bookchin before. I think I will a lot more now. This man is a damn good social thinker and I like the sound of his ideas on social ecology.
Look him up on wiki.
I never read Murray Bookchin before. I think I will a lot more now. This man is a damn good social thinker and I like the sound of his ideas on social ecology.
Look him up on wiki.
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^ He has a mighty fine and suitable name for an author .
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it's quite similar to that famous porn star, Furry Ballchin.
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Pet Semetary Stephen king
cherrycolouredfunk
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I'm slowly reading The Three Cornered World. A mix of eastern and western philosophy. It's fiction yet not.
'‘Walking up a mountain track, I fell to thinking.
Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.’ - Natsume Soseki, The Three-Cornered World.'
Wonderfully written. My dad bought it and said he'd pass it on to me when he was done..but I bought my own copy as I understood it is the kind of book that you need to take your time reading so you can take in every word.
I'm also readng Shadowmancer - GP Taylor for some pure and simple escapism and I'm a sucker for childrens literature.
'‘Walking up a mountain track, I fell to thinking.
Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.’ - Natsume Soseki, The Three-Cornered World.'
Wonderfully written. My dad bought it and said he'd pass it on to me when he was done..but I bought my own copy as I understood it is the kind of book that you need to take your time reading so you can take in every word.
I'm also readng Shadowmancer - GP Taylor for some pure and simple escapism and I'm a sucker for childrens literature.
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TheSpade said:I've just ordered 'Tell No One' by Harlan Coben.
The film is great so I reckon the book wil no doubt be better as always.
i just started reading that book a few days ago!
bought it in a charity bookstore for 50p, hasn't even had the spine broken, brand fucking new. Some kid in africa just got some immodium thanks to me.
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Just finished The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco.
Mr Eco is a bibliomaniacal wordsmith of epic proportions. I have previously only read The Name of the Rose which is also excellent, but this recent one is simply jaw-dropping. The plot is very simple: a rare bookseller awakes from a coma with no memory except the ability to recall, in detail, every book he has ever read. In a bid to recover his memory he returns to the town he grew up in and immerses himself in the books of his childhood.
It is a simple plot device on which to hang a series of philosophical meditations on all the usual suspects - life, love, death and religion. The book is breathtakingly beautiful. I was lent it by an Italian and I remarked to him that it must be excruciating to read Eco in translation, but he assured me that the translator had done sterling work and that only the most subtle of regional subtleties had been lost in the transfer. The translator deserves some kind of award. I seriously doubt many native English-speakers would know where to begin with words like "amphiboly", "Cimmerian", "lubriciously", "yataghan", "odalisques" and "mulct". And that's just the beginning - I've got a pageful of words to decipher sat next to me, and I'm thoroughly enjoying adding them to my vocabulary.
It's a wonderful book - so reminiscent of my childhood days spending hours on end leafing through encyclopaedias. To my mind, it gets a little bogged down in references to the Fascist era of Il Duce (who didn't make the trains run on time) but that's probably because I have no particular interest in Italian Fascists. If you love books and you love words, this is a mighty fine book to read. It's worth it for the final chapter alone.
A couple of quotes to demonstrate the slendour - upon our protagonist entering an attic for the first time:
On the Universe:
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Mr Eco is a bibliomaniacal wordsmith of epic proportions. I have previously only read The Name of the Rose which is also excellent, but this recent one is simply jaw-dropping. The plot is very simple: a rare bookseller awakes from a coma with no memory except the ability to recall, in detail, every book he has ever read. In a bid to recover his memory he returns to the town he grew up in and immerses himself in the books of his childhood.
It is a simple plot device on which to hang a series of philosophical meditations on all the usual suspects - life, love, death and religion. The book is breathtakingly beautiful. I was lent it by an Italian and I remarked to him that it must be excruciating to read Eco in translation, but he assured me that the translator had done sterling work and that only the most subtle of regional subtleties had been lost in the transfer. The translator deserves some kind of award. I seriously doubt many native English-speakers would know where to begin with words like "amphiboly", "Cimmerian", "lubriciously", "yataghan", "odalisques" and "mulct". And that's just the beginning - I've got a pageful of words to decipher sat next to me, and I'm thoroughly enjoying adding them to my vocabulary.
It's a wonderful book - so reminiscent of my childhood days spending hours on end leafing through encyclopaedias. To my mind, it gets a little bogged down in references to the Fascist era of Il Duce (who didn't make the trains run on time) but that's probably because I have no particular interest in Italian Fascists. If you love books and you love words, this is a mighty fine book to read. It's worth it for the final chapter alone.
A couple of quotes to demonstrate the slendour - upon our protagonist entering an attic for the first time:
And that masterful piece of prose is just describing an attic...
On the Universe:
On God:
If those quotes make you as moist as they do me, go read the book. It's really rather good
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Just finished, Godel, Esher and Bach, Hofstader, D. It changed the way i think about brains and consciousness, demystified it.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Kesey, K. Excellent, just excellent.
Currently on Love in the time of Cholera, my fiancee has been pestering me to read it for some time, but GEB took me a while to get thru. Pretty good so far.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Kesey, K. Excellent, just excellent.
Currently on Love in the time of Cholera, my fiancee has been pestering me to read it for some time, but GEB took me a while to get thru. Pretty good so far.
Shambles
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Ernestrome said:
Picked that up in the charity shop t'other day. It's quite high on my to-be-read-soon list
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