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How well read are you? It’s World Book Night, and 1,000,000 copies of 25 different books are given out free.
(1) Pride and Prejudice.
(2) The Player of Games.
(3) Sleepyhead
(4) Notes From a Small Island
(5) The Alchemist
(6) The Take
(7) Harlequin
(8) Someone Like You
(9) A Tale of 2 Cities
(10) Room
(11) Rebecca
(12) The Remains of the Day
(13) Misery
(14) The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
(15) Small Island
(16) Let the Right one in
(17) The Road
(18) The Time Traveller’s Wife
(19) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
(20) The Damned Utd.
(21) Good Omens.
(22) How I live Now.
(23) Touching the Void.
(24) I capture the Castle.
(25) The Book Thief.
I’ve read 1,4,9,12, 17,20 and 23. Got 13 and 20 given this morning. Seen as films 1,9, 12, 13, 17 and 23. The Brian Clough one looks interesating.
Alt, nice lunch?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:53, 119 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
(1) Pride and Prejudice.
(2) The Player of Games.
(3) Sleepyhead
(4) Notes From a Small Island
(5) The Alchemist
(6) The Take
(7) Harlequin
(8) Someone Like You
(9) A Tale of 2 Cities
(10) Room
(11) Rebecca
(12) The Remains of the Day
(13) Misery
(14) The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
(15) Small Island
(16) Let the Right one in
(17) The Road
(18) The Time Traveller’s Wife
(19) The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
(20) The Damned Utd.
(21) Good Omens.
(22) How I live Now.
(23) Touching the Void.
(24) I capture the Castle.
(25) The Book Thief.
I’ve read 1,4,9,12, 17,20 and 23. Got 13 and 20 given this morning. Seen as films 1,9, 12, 13, 17 and 23. The Brian Clough one looks interesating.
Alt, nice lunch?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:53, 119 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
ermmm.
1,3,4,5,9,17,18,20,21,23,25. I think.
Odd choices though. The Take? isn't that Martina Cole?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:56, Reply)
1,3,4,5,9,17,18,20,21,23,25. I think.
Odd choices though. The Take? isn't that Martina Cole?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:56, Reply)
Just pick a bunch of the numbers randomly to make it seem like you're well read.
Like everyone else.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:05, Reply)
Like everyone else.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:05, Reply)
Cynical.
It's the internet shut in board, of course most of us read a lot, it saves us talking to real people.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:09, Reply)
It's the internet shut in board, of course most of us read a lot, it saves us talking to real people.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:09, Reply)
I don't really credit people on here with the attention span to read anything beyond the Warhammer newsletter
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
OK, well, some of us read a lot.
Mainly to fill all that time that would have been spent draining vodka bottles and blowing tramps.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:15, Reply)
Mainly to fill all that time that would have been spent draining vodka bottles and blowing tramps.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:15, Reply)
I need authors to be sure.
Definitely:
1,4,9.13.16,17,20,21
And 3 if it's by Mark Billingham.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:04, Reply)
Definitely:
1,4,9.13.16,17,20,21
And 3 if it's by Mark Billingham.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:04, Reply)
Here ya go.
www.worldbooknight.org/about-world-book-night/wbn-2012/the-books
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:06, Reply)
www.worldbooknight.org/about-world-book-night/wbn-2012/the-books
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:06, Reply)
Thank you.
That confirms number 3, but doesn't change anything else, there's nothing else there I've read. Or particularly want to, actually.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:08, Reply)
That confirms number 3, but doesn't change anything else, there's nothing else there I've read. Or particularly want to, actually.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:08, Reply)
I'm heading over to the event in The South Bank Centre tonight, as it happens. Just to be nosey.
And if I can be bothered to hang around for the 90 minutes between work finishing and it starting, that is.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:05, Reply)
And if I can be bothered to hang around for the 90 minutes between work finishing and it starting, that is.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:05, Reply)
Why is it called that here?
The trailer before Cabin In The Woods yesterday still called it The Avengers, so they haven't bothered with a full renaming of it.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
The trailer before Cabin In The Woods yesterday still called it The Avengers, so they haven't bothered with a full renaming of it.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
cos of The Avengers we've had over here for 50 odd years
people are always confusing Thor and Emma Peel
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:14, Reply)
people are always confusing Thor and Emma Peel
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:14, Reply)
she might
you know, for when she wants to put up a picture or something
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:17, Reply)
you know, for when she wants to put up a picture or something
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:17, Reply)
I mean there's no point in having a hammer as she hasn't got any nails
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:20, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:20, Reply)
fair enough, hopefully chompy will get his space mining operation up and running and can make her some new nails
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:21, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:21, Reply)
Or she could just fire her pictures into space where they won't fall down
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:23, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:23, Reply)
and then look at them through a telescope
by jove I think we've done it
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:25, Reply)
by jove I think we've done it
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:25, Reply)
Very well read, but a specialist.
Of that list I have red but two (1 and 5)- and The Alchemist was fucking bent. All the rest are shit and fin cunts.
Where's 'Moon the Loon' on there? Nowhere, that's where. Cunts.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
Of that list I have red but two (1 and 5)- and The Alchemist was fucking bent. All the rest are shit and fin cunts.
Where's 'Moon the Loon' on there? Nowhere, that's where. Cunts.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
‘Being a Knobend on the Internet: advanced edition’?
Hang on, you said read, not wrote. My mistake.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:15, Reply)
Hang on, you said read, not wrote. My mistake.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:15, Reply)
it was a Times Bestseller and won the Booker prize 3 years straight
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:17, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:17, Reply)
I was under the impression that this board was the training manual for it?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:18, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:18, Reply)
I've had that Fuck You song stuck in my head for a few days now.
You know, that one that goes "I'm sorry, I can't afford a farrari. I guess you want an xbox, and I'm more atari" I like that one.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
You know, that one that goes "I'm sorry, I can't afford a farrari. I guess you want an xbox, and I'm more atari" I like that one.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:12, Reply)
I logged on JUST to say that,
You should like totally get a badge that says "I got TGB to log onto B3ta after ages because she thoughtit was shit but I was so awesome she had to so HA in your face everyone else"
It will be a big badge
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:19, Reply)
You should like totally get a badge that says "I got TGB to log onto B3ta after ages because she thoughtit was shit but I was so awesome she had to so HA in your face everyone else"
It will be a big badge
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:19, Reply)
OMG! It's like Highlander isn't it, he hates me becasue he thinks there should only be one.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:21, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:21, Reply)
i have sufficiently convincing anecdotal evidence on which to rely
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:36, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:36, Reply)
Ooooo, when you were telling Rakky about what a horrible cunt I was
did she stick up for me or did she say "Yeah, I always thought he was a badun"
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:39, Reply)
did she stick up for me or did she say "Yeah, I always thought he was a badun"
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:39, Reply)
I'd say she won't ever forget that night.
but she won't ever remember it.
/Chompylolz
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:49, Reply)
but she won't ever remember it.
/Chompylolz
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:49, Reply)
get yourself out to the reatil park just off junction 7 of the M4, Reading east
you can see a movie, go bowling and then have your tea in nandos, it'll be ace!
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:17, Reply)
you can see a movie, go bowling and then have your tea in nandos, it'll be ace!
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:17, Reply)
I would but Chicago Rock Cafe won't let me in later on as I don't have any shiney black shoes :(
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:19, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:19, Reply)
i've read 15 of them
they are very random. "rebecca" is the best by quite some way. although "let the right one in" is fucking brilliant.
and "time traveller's wife" niffenegger (sp?) and "shopaholic" kinsella prob earned more than the rest of them put together!
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:30, Reply)
they are very random. "rebecca" is the best by quite some way. although "let the right one in" is fucking brilliant.
and "time traveller's wife" niffenegger (sp?) and "shopaholic" kinsella prob earned more than the rest of them put together!
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:30, Reply)
You've broken this thread with your references to shitty chick lit
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:39, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:39, Reply)
The phrase "loose cannon"
originally referred to a ship-board cannon coming loose from its tethers. Due to the pitching and rolling of a ship at sea, the cannon would roll unpredictably around the ship. This was incredibly dangerous for the men. Not just from the obvious threat of crushed legs or death from being hit by a fast-moving, uncontrolled, several ton weight of wheeled metal doom but also from the very real threat of it falling down a hatchway and thence straight through the bottom of the ship.
This is how I imagine a fight between Al and Bobby. An unpredictable, incredibly heavy mass bringing with it the severe risk of crushing death to innocent bystanders.
I have read only one of those books.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:39, Reply)
originally referred to a ship-board cannon coming loose from its tethers. Due to the pitching and rolling of a ship at sea, the cannon would roll unpredictably around the ship. This was incredibly dangerous for the men. Not just from the obvious threat of crushed legs or death from being hit by a fast-moving, uncontrolled, several ton weight of wheeled metal doom but also from the very real threat of it falling down a hatchway and thence straight through the bottom of the ship.
This is how I imagine a fight between Al and Bobby. An unpredictable, incredibly heavy mass bringing with it the severe risk of crushing death to innocent bystanders.
I have read only one of those books.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:39, Reply)
everyone who is european has up to 3% neanderthal DNA in them
did you know that? what do you think about that?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:50, Reply)
did you know that? what do you think about that?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 15:50, Reply)
In what way does this question relate to the Bristol bash?
alt: no, not really. Hospital sandwich. Meh.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:01, Reply)
alt: no, not really. Hospital sandwich. Meh.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:01, Reply)
Did you ask for extra AIDS? i find they can be a bit dry otherwise
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:02, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:02, Reply)
hahaha!
Was a good time had by all then? What happened with this glassing?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:10, Reply)
Was a good time had by all then? What happened with this glassing?
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:10, Reply)
I know you don't get out much, but meeting people in the pub doesn't need this much attention.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:07, Reply)
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:07, Reply)
There's no point reading books
If a book is halfway decent they'll make a film of it and book-to-film adaptations are always brilliant and never fail to suitably encapsulate the subtext and depth of a 400-age book in 2 hours.
Look at Battlefield Earth. And Twilight. Those films were no worse than the books that inspired them.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:39, Reply)
If a book is halfway decent they'll make a film of it and book-to-film adaptations are always brilliant and never fail to suitably encapsulate the subtext and depth of a 400-age book in 2 hours.
Look at Battlefield Earth. And Twilight. Those films were no worse than the books that inspired them.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:39, Reply)
I've read one
And I read avidly! Just don't fancy 96% of te books on this list.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:50, Reply)
And I read avidly! Just don't fancy 96% of te books on this list.
( , Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:50, Reply)
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