Books
We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
We love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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A kindred spirit
Well said, Moon Monkey, who is known by the B3tans as Siriluna and by the blokes down the pub as Oyyu.
You were clearly posting as I was typing my similar observations in the next thread along.
I look forward to the discussion about how wonderful it was that the pixies' walk down the road to the next county was detailed in THREE HUNDRED PAGES OF MIND-NUMBINGLY TEDIOUS DETAIL.
Ahem. Sorry. As you were.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:42, 1 reply)
Well said, Moon Monkey, who is known by the B3tans as Siriluna and by the blokes down the pub as Oyyu.
You were clearly posting as I was typing my similar observations in the next thread along.
I look forward to the discussion about how wonderful it was that the pixies' walk down the road to the next county was detailed in THREE HUNDRED PAGES OF MIND-NUMBINGLY TEDIOUS DETAIL.
Ahem. Sorry. As you were.
( , Thu 5 Jan 2012, 14:42, 1 reply)
Feeling masochistic, I once attempted to read some other Tolkein
That is, not LotR or The Hobbit.
Ye Gods, they're even worse. Not even hardened JRRT fans can finish the Silmarillion, so I'm told.
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That is, not LotR or The Hobbit.
Ye Gods, they're even worse. Not even hardened JRRT fans can finish the Silmarillion, so I'm told.
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They can and do (well, this one did)
Though it was more an effort of will and an exercise in adolescent bloody-mindedness than a leisure pastime.
IMO the films did well to ditch the interminable folk songs and poetry recitals of the books, and really really well to completely excise all the Tom Bombadil bollocks. Fol-de-rol my arse.
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Though it was more an effort of will and an exercise in adolescent bloody-mindedness than a leisure pastime.
IMO the films did well to ditch the interminable folk songs and poetry recitals of the books, and really really well to completely excise all the Tom Bombadil bollocks. Fol-de-rol my arse.
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He'll always be Tim Benzedrine to me
The only thing I remember from Bored Of The Rings
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The only thing I remember from Bored Of The Rings
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