BOOKS!
I'm currently reading "Journey Through Britain" by John Hillaby, an account of his walk from Land's End to John O'Groats where he subsists mainly on cider and pies. I'd love a bit of that. What are you reading and why is it good/shit?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:01, 166 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I'm not reading anything currently so I'll just talk about me. Me me me.
I'd like to express just how much I despise my birthday, but I don't think I have the strength.
Yesterday a friend says "OHEMGEE We're taking you to [the name of this place I hate] for your biiirthdaaay"
then today it's "I heard you hate this place, are you sure you want to go?" So I say "I don't really like it there but I figure that someone is doing something nice for me so who am I to complain" she says "Well you don't have to go if you don't want to"
le sigh
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:07, Reply)

Perhaps they're going to give you a really thoughtful and interesting book.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:09, Reply)

...or 'the bumps'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:18, Reply)

happy birthday
hope you get laid, and get laid good.

*trots off home to do the same*
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

not with these fur leggings I'm wearing

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

do you mean literal fur leggings
or are you just overdue a wax?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

oh em gee I do not wax

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:03, Reply)

off-topic
it's good and shit because of what we make it.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:09, Reply)

The start is good, the middle's alright but the end is fucking awful.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:10, Reply)

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
I'm reading it because The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was fucking brilliant, and The Girl Who Played With Fire also reasonably good.

Fascinating, eh
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:10, Reply)

I started Dragon Tattoo
and rapidly got bored of it.

Double fascination.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:11, Reply)

No.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:12, Reply)

I was about to compose a dignified response
and then I decided to say bollocks to it, I'm going to the pub.

Have a spectacular weekend everyone, and Monty, best of luck with everything.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:18, Reply)

I endorse the above statement

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:19, Reply)

*stops reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest*

(PsychoChomp, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:17, Reply)

I'm currently reading Clive Cussler - Dragon
its about dirty nips sneaking in nuclear devices to the U.S. hidden inside cars with the idea to extort the Government. It is good in that its quite fast paced and therefore a good train read to and from work. It is shit because he called one of the characters in the book Clive Cussler (though he was only in it for a bit)
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:13, Reply)

Clive Cussler
pops up in a few of his books.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:15, Reply)

It is a bit shit really
Its not like his name isn't on the front of the book or anything
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:17, Reply)

Gauche, isn't it?
It's one thing when it's Hitchcock, it's another when it's the author of a brainless action novel.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:23, Reply)

I'm quite enjoying the book though
My kind of read
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:26, Reply)

'Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World' by Justin Marozzi.
It's well researched and informative. I'd recommend it...but not to most of you lot.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:14, Reply)

Did the author spell world correctly?
If so, this is good research
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:16, Reply)

Hahaha
*whistles*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:17, Reply)

Nothing to see here - move along

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:17, Reply)

What's it about Monty?

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:17, Reply)

It's about Temur,
who was a military leader and massive conqueror in the late C14th Middle East (well, the 'stans). Kind of like Genghis Khan but in some ways more civilised. He was also indescribably brutal when he met resistance. Entire cities were razed to the ground and every inhabitant killed on dozens of occasions. It's non-fiction and quite heavy going but a sound academic work.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:29, Reply)

The Summoner by someone or other
generic fantasy, it's ok, but a bit formulaic.

I recently finished reading a book based on the back story to some of the futuristic Games Workshop stuff (I've never played it) and it was actually really quite good.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:18, Reply)

Next stop larping.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:19, Reply)

At the risk of looking even nerdier than normal
was this the pre-Heresy stuff? I was quite surprised by one of those, too. Not nearly surprised enough to actually own any copies, but still.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:19, Reply)

it is
I just read Horus Rising, which was pretty good.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:29, Reply)

OK even I, as a larper
have to point out that that shit is SHIT. Fucking games workshop
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:22, Reply)

ummoner impsons Tie
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:31, Reply)

it's much worse than Pratchett
you'd probably be disgusted at the sort of stuff I read, because it is almost exclusively sci fi and fantasy.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

Worse that Pratshit?
Christ alive.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:36, Reply)

well, I guess it depends on the part of his writing with which you take issue
he's moved away from the in-joke type stuff quite a lot
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

I mainly read non-fiction these days.
I have lately been reading The Oxford History of Byzantium, also Empire of the Clouds. Both were good, but the last was rather rose-tinted.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:18, Reply)

The Lies of Locke Lamora
It's quite good so far, kind of Conan the Barbarian crossed with Hustle.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:25, Reply)

Oh! I bloody love that book
I have the second one in uncorrected proof form
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:21, Reply)

Not reading anything at the moment, I'm filled with regret.
Though I'll be getting the Kindle app, and try and work my way through some of the free out-of-copyright books they have.

Last book I think I read (re-read) was Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut. Excellent.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:25, Reply)

crappy chick lit at the moment. it's crap and i'm ashamed
also i can't read one book at a time. i always have several on the go at once: one in the handbag for the tube; one by my bed; one by the bath; one by the tv; one on the kitchen table; one in the car (for waiting in car parks and traffic jams only!).

i really want to read "wolf hall" but every time i look at my massive hardback copy, my heart sinks and i reach for the chick lit.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:28, Reply)

I love a hardback
They're a cunt to read in bed, though.

I'm vain enough that I care about how they look on the shelf. Appalling, really.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:31, Reply)

I hate hardback books
one of my mates insisted I read some Peter F Hamilton stuff but the books were the most stupidly large things that I put it off for at least 6 months, and constantly cursed them the whole time I was reading.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:32, Reply)

i hate it when you get into a series
and the newest editions are only available in hardback so they don't match your earlier paperback ones.

it is almost worth going on holiday just so that you can buy the paperbacks at the airport.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

I don't buy new books
and only get hardbacks if I have no choice
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

Whereas I will order off Amazon
specifically because I can reliably get hardback copies of older books.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:42, Reply)

oh god i love buying books
i am banned from going near a bookshop if out with friends/boyfriends because they know they can't get me out again. i esp love second hand bookshops, the really old jumbled kind, where you could find absolutely anything stashed next to something else, and where you can get loads of books for £100 instead of about 7.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

I love it too
that's why I can only buy secondhand. I'd be bankrupt otherwise.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

i really want to go to baggins book bazaar
allegedly the biggest second hand book shop in europe. it's in rochester, and it's a few cottages knocked together into a many roomed random wandering delight of a bookshop.

/drools

check this out! "Best place in Britain for a bookworm to burrow
It is a bookworm's paradise. More than half-a-million hardbacks and paperbacks line the shelves, covering every topic under the sun. You will probably never have seen so many books under one roof -- there are libraries that are ill-stocked compared with Baggins Book Bazaar in Rochester High Street ...

HALF A MILLION BOOKS? how can a crappy kindle compete with that?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

there's a place called the Book Barn in Somerset
it's massive and is chock full of books.

When I have some money I'm going to go there and go crazy
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

You don't have to go to Rochester for one.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:54, Reply)

^this
also, the book barn place I was referring to has a million or more, and is on my way somewhere that isn't Rochester.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

"There's millions," says Geoffrey, "All under one roof..."

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

indeed
it's like Toys R Us, but less disappointing
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:02, Reply)

"It's called Battersea Dogs' Home"

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:05, Reply)

shut up jeff

( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:11, Reply)

rochester looks really pretty though
it would be a nice day out, roof down on the car, cheesy music pumping, nice walk, nice restaurant, nice book shopping... what's not to love?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:59, Reply)

haha, if you ever need a volunteer to go with you..

(berk, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:17, Reply)

It's a date.

( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:04, Reply)

I could easily fill another two bookcases with all the books I have stacked up around the house
I started going through them to fill some boxes for charity but It's hard to let go.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

I can't let go of mine either
I know there are some important tomes missing as well, which irks me.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:52, Reply)

ditto, i'm an absolute book nightmare
however shit the book, i simply can't get rid of it. i have: 3 bookshelves in the hall, 2 in my spare room, 1 in my lounge and 2 in my bedroom. and they are all full. then i have 4 more in the room at my dad's, plus a wardrobe full. if/when he sells the house i am going to have to cry a LOT or spring for storage.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

chi k

Sometimes you just need a misery wank.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

Funnily enough
every time I look at my massive hard cock, my blood pressure sinks and I reach for the chick's clit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:34, Reply)

Can you believe I have sunk so low?
You can? Oh.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:34, Reply)

You get a pass today but if you're like this on monday...

(PsychoChomp, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:36, Reply)

what happened today?
I've been busy
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:36, Reply)

Monty logged in.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

the horror......

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

i am more...
saddened than anything, darling.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

Slower AND more rubbish.
Tut tut.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

I can no longer afford to be funny.
This is the Tesco Value Boyce of the future.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:40, Reply)

christ, you mean that wasn't what we had before?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:41, Reply)

That was Waitrose essentials Boyce.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

good grief

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

This is why you need a Kindle and keep it on you at all times and cherish it like you would your great great grandfather's glasses that he took from Russia during the war.
And by 'kindle', I mean, something that can run the kindle app, in a good size, like an iPad.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:16, Reply)

I'm reading 'Dr jekyll and mr hyde'
because my new year's resolution was to read all the classics I should have read (given that I read a lot) but haven't. It's alright; I preferred Conan Doyle.
(berk, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:29, Reply)

I prefer Conan the Barbarian.

(PsychoChomp, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:30, Reply)

Conan Doyle?
Didn't he used to present Holiday on BBC1 with Judith Chalmers?

I think he works in double glazing now.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:30, Reply)

I like that book.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:35, Reply)

"great gatsby" and "catcher in the rye"
are two of my favourite more modern classics, have you read those?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:44, Reply)

I've read catcher in the rye
great gatsby is on the list. In all honesty I'm doing it because I had a look at one of those '100 books you should have read' things and was appalled by how few I'd read, only 30 or 40.
(berk, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

gatsby is awesome
just a pure symphony of lovely writing
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:54, Reply)

don't bother with Moby Dick
it'd be good if it had been edited

also: read The Three Musketeers. I love that book, and Tom Brown's School Days.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

The Count of Monte Cristo is Dumas' crowning glory if you ask me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

I've not actually read it
I have however used his name in an elaborate literary pun/insult.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:52, Reply)

That is also on the list.

(berk, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:11, Reply)

It is a work of genius.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:12, Reply)

I have tried reading Moby Dick twice
purely so that I could read the "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it" passage in context.

Unfortunately, the book is almost incomprehensible to modern eyes and appears to be mostly turgid filler.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

I slogged my way through the whole thing
it was mostly turgid filler. The actual story isn't bad, and he obviously did a lot of research, but it needed cutting out, and the massive digressions slimmed right down.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

I wholeheartedly agree,
An abridged version might be great.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:05, Reply)

Ditto the drum solo of the same name.

(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:06, Reply)

Name a non-tedious drum solo.
I know of only one offhand - Santana's 'Soul Sacrifice' live at Woodstock.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:10, Reply)

Depends if I have to stick to rock records
Because the drum solo near the end of Grant Green's reworking of My Favourite Things is, to me, what drum solos should be like. But as far as rock drummers go, I think Keith Moon had the right idea with his lifelong insistence that "Drum solos are boring."

Edit: The opening to the Surfaris' Wipeout is probably stretching the definition of a 'solo,' isn't it?
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:12, Reply)

Re: your edit: it's barely a break, definitely not a solo.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:17, Reply)

I think there is one in Pictures of Home by Deep Purple
one of my band's songs has a drum and djembe bit. Not a solo though I guess, because two people are playing.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:13, Reply)

Nowt wrong with a decent drum break or percussion breakdown,
I've spent years and many grands acquiring them.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:16, Reply)

I may not have mentioned that I love the drumming on that Tractor album
simple, but the long rolls are superb. Makes me feel happy.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:19, Reply)

I'm trying to do this at the moment
trouble is, the classics I really want to read all seem to be huge epics. I'm reading a novel about refugees at the moment as light relief.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

Have you added Bravo Two Zero
To your list of 'must read' classics?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

The Picture Of Dorian Gray is good, but a bit slow moving
Wilde's storytelling is fantastic though.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

that's one of my favourites
did you see the recent film? Very well done I thought.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:57, Reply)

Nope, I've not
But will give it a look!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:03, Reply)

Is it? Might try that,
I love Oscar Wilde. Even though he was 'one of them'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:03, Reply)

an Irishman?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:09, Reply)

A Whig

( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:11, Reply)

it is one of my favourite books
and I thought the film was tremendously well done and I hope you agree.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:11, Reply)

Good news. I have no desire to see 99% of films so am keen to see this.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:14, Reply)

they haven't really tried to make it actiony or anything
quite true to the book
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:15, Reply)

Finished it last week
I liked the story, but the flowery language started to get a bit wearisome.
(berk, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:58, Reply)

I just finished One Day, which I enjoyed
Now reading Room, a book writen from the perspective of a child who grows up in a Fritzl style cellar and knows very little of the outside world.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:33, Reply)

Bad Boy Bubby.
You've seen the film, now read the book.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

What a brilliant film that is, Fucking love it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:39, Reply)

It's odd but it is a really heartwarming film.

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

Competely agree.
Also the 'It is the duty of all human beings to think God out of existence' monologue is fucking stupendous.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

here we go
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-nvweAVpqk&feature=related
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:58, Reply)

No one's ever seen that film, when I go on about it.
I salute you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:02, Reply)

*doffs cap*

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:06, Reply)

*unfurls giant swastika flag*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:08, Reply)

i didn't like that book
but i still couldn't put it down all day until i'd finished it (i was on the beach, so had absolutely nothing else to do, bloody glorious)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:45, Reply)

on a travelogue theme
I can recommend
Travels with Boogie
and Boogie up the river.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:37, Reply)

'Give the Anarchist A Cigarette' by Mick Farren
is a great book about the late 60s British counterculture by one of its key players. There aren't that many orcs in it, though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:38, Reply)

I hate orcs and superfluous fucking apostrophes in everything

xkcd.com/483/
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:41, Reply)

I'd go along with that
it is possible to write fantasy and sci fi without resorting to apostrophes in the middle of words
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:45, Reply)

Bunch of Twa'ats.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

Hmm
While made up words aren't always good, Roald Dahl came up with some superb ones in The BFG...
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:54, Reply)

You were reading that last year.
Do you need the 'big print' version?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:43, Reply)

I've read it three times,
but I'm not actually reading it at the moment. You cunt.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:46, Reply)

Ooooooooooh get you!

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:50, Reply)

Yes, get me.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:01, Reply)

I am currently reading Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:40, Reply)

My kid loves that.
Personally I found the character of Harry to be a little bit one-dimensional. Plus, what a fucking flid for leaving his fucking dinosaurs on the train.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:42, Reply)

Plus where is the dad? and why is his sister such a cunt?

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

These questions remain unanswered,
leaving the reader perplexed and ultimately unfulfilled. Conversely the sequel 'Harry finds a tattered but otherwise complete edition of 'Knave' magazine in a hedge' is a tour de force.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:56, Reply)

I await this installment with significant interest.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:00, Reply)

Some of the illustrations are quite daring.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:07, Reply)

I heard the one of 'Steggy' being bukkaked by a stream of rogue jizz
was nominated for an award.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:14, Reply)

It really pushed the boundaries of children's illustration.
Challenging what could and could not be done within that genre. Astounding.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:23, Reply)

I have actually read a childrens book about poo
it's called 'the mole who knew it was none of his business'. Informative and amusing but very surreal - you should look out for it, but I suspect your ex would flip out if she found out you'd read it to your daughter. (since she seems to flip out about nearly everything, and it is a book about poo after all)
(berk, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:35, Reply)

The Buccaneers of America by Alexander Exquemelin
17th century book on piracy by a pirate. It is supposed to be based on truth but I think he was full of shit - for a start he is Dutch yet never says 'yesh pleashe' or suchlike.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:42, Reply)

I recommend this:
www.amazon.co.uk/Pirates-General-History-Robberies-Notorious/dp/0851779190/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298047475&sr=1-4
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:45, Reply)

Cheers Monters.
(I think your book is the one I had originally intended to purchase. Not sure where that went wrong.)
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

I'm reading about using honey as part of wound management in animals
It's interesting because it's tasty science in action.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

I have finished Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs and am now reading
Hairy Mclary.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:47, Reply)

Ahhh I was trying to describe this to someone a few days ago!
Snitzel Von Krumm with the very low tum!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:49, Reply)

We used it for verbs today, so the kids could try and move like animals (dinosaurs)

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

Right then,
I'm off for a weekend of shitting in the woods, have a smashing weekend everybody!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:48, Reply)

Don't wipe your arse on a nettle.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:51, Reply)

arse cock
nettle child
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:53, Reply)

Don't
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:55, Reply)

You're a bear?
Oooh, get you!
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:55, Reply)

No, the pope.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 16:57, Reply)

I just finished Ilium by Dan Simmons
good because I know nothing about greek mythology and this was basically mad
Bad, it was very long which is not usually a bad thing but I've not had much time for reading

Afternoon all! I'm on half term now!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:11, Reply)

me too
*high fives*
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:12, Reply)

yeah! a week where you work for free!
actually I plan to only go in on one day and get everything done then
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:19, Reply)

The Dan Simmons I've read was basically just smug look-at-how-well-read-I-am bollocks.

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:20, Reply)

I quite liked that other one I read and forgot the name
you might think the same of ilium, there is a lot of 'look at me, I've read the the iliad!" but not as bad as some celtic fanasty books I read once. Forgotten the guy's name...something about someone accidentally going back in time to medieval times where the author shows off his ability to copy shit from a history book
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:25, Reply)

Bit like this thread then.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:26, Reply)

I'm not sure I've ever read anthing that was worth bragging about

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:27, Reply)

Out of interest
I was wondering if anybody here has seriously set out to write.

My degree consisting in large part of creative writing and I started three books in different genres as part of my various end of year assessments and dissertation and so on. They're sitting on a drive somewhere but I doubt I'll ever finish them. Don't really want to, to be honest.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:19, Reply)

How long ago did you finish?
Often they need a really long rest before you can tackle them again - I'm redrafting a novella I wrote four years ago. It's the first time I've been able to look at it.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:24, Reply)

I finished in '02
I don't really have the interest anymore.
( Kroney, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:28, Reply)

Then just leave them and move on
either write something else....or don't.
Unless you have a large man with a big gun standing next to you saying that if you don't write you'll be bummed.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:31, Reply)

Hmmm
Does Crow have a shotgun license?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:32, Reply)

Making music is the same.
Bit of distance is vital to gain any objectivity at all, from my experience.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:32, Reply)

I think that all creative activities - making music or art, writing fiction - they share a good deal of common ground
and demand similar things.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:52, Reply)

Currently reading Scarlett Thomas's latest book, 'Our Tragic Universe'
it's very good, but then so far everything of hers that I've read has been brilliant.

I'm also reading some historical romantic fiction that I've been asked to review for a friend. It's okay but rather one dimensional; reasonably well written but I like my fiction to have more substance.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 18 Feb 2011, 17:23, Reply)