He means Smaug.
He really is a spastic.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:06, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I reread that for the first time in a few years recently
Still absolutely magnificent.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:17, Reply)

It's better than Lord of the Rings, I think.
Much less rambling - I think LOTR would benefit from some judicious editing, personally.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:21, Reply)

But then it wouldn't be true to the Kindle.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:23, Reply)

You might say it would be a ‘Kindle surprise’!!! LOL!!!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:24, Reply)

Hahahahaha!
I see what you did there.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:28, Reply)

I tell you, I'm mad, me! Bonkers!!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:30, Reply)

If you have to say it to others, you're not really mad.
Just a bit odd.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:31, Reply)

If you have to say it to others, you're not really mad.
What you are instead, is a complete fucking wanker who should be tortured to death in a lockup on an industrial estate in East Ham.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:33, Reply)

The most murderous of all the Hams.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:36, Reply)

I thought that was West Ham?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:38, Reply)

I thought it was Wet Ham.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:40, Reply)

West Ham denizens and fans are gentlemen of the highest order.
FACT BOMB.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:42, Reply)

I tried reading LOTR as one book, rather than 3 seperate
I found it quite hard going in bits, far more difficult than if I'd split it into 3.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:24, Reply)

I've read it as both
and it is much easier going as 3 books. I recently finished it again (and the Hobbit) and was pleased to find that it seemed to drag much less than I remembered, particularly the bits with Sam and Frodo towards the end.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:27, Reply)

Don't talk to AA about 'drag'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:32, Reply)

good point

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 9:37, Reply)