"engrossed" being employed in the same sentence as "new Bridget Jones (book)"
is one of the signs of the coming apocalypse, I'm pretty sure.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:34, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I was briefly engrossed in the first one
if you take "engrossed" to be "considering imaginative ways to kill the worthless whining bitch"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:40, Reply)

we've all had homicidal thoughts about swipe

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:41, Reply)

like it or loathe it, helen fielding was the first to do it like she did
and made a bloody fortune out of it
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:44, Reply)

I could be the first to have a wank backwards off a tractor whilst doing a headstand
Doesn't make it "worthwhile"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:47, Reply)

depends how you define "worthwhile"
if people enjoy it/it makes them laugh/it makes a lot of money.... those are all good reasons to do something.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:48, Reply)

something making a lot of money alone
is not ever a "good" reason to so something.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:49, Reply)

i disagree with this, if nobody is harmed by it, blah blah
it was her job. fair play to her for writing it and doing well. and it made a lot of money for her agent/publisher/all the people who worked on the films... lots of employment there, so lots of people benefiting from it...

of course, it doesn't work as a sole motivation for everything.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:52, Reply)

You can't make money without harming someone else.
because - here's the clever thing - there's only a finite amount of money. So you aren't making it, what you are doing is taking it off someone else. And taking money off people to perpetuate Bridget Jones is basically a criminal atrocity.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:57, Reply)

just because I am a prick
quantitative easing... stops there being a finite amount of money
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 10:00, Reply)

Shut up, you're not my real dad.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 10:09, Reply)

He may be
along with many others.....
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 10:10, Reply)

Go to your room!!!

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 10:16, Reply)

I am going to vote for Loathe

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:53, Reply)

I'm always surprised that she's published by Picador.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:40, Reply)

Is that a pokemon?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:42, Reply)

no, it's a pretension

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:43, Reply)

me too
i mean, she didn't sell any copies at all, so therefore made them no money. and money isn't the point of publishing at all, because it isn't a business like any other business.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:43, Reply)

I mean that they generally publish literary fiction rather than chicktion

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:46, Reply)

i know
so imagine this, right, you get this popular column, and the possibility of publishing it in book form, and it's clearly going to be a best seller and make a lot of money, but it's just not quite right genre. so you'll let penguin have this one, eh?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:47, Reply)

I know
who would have thought that mounted bull fighting would have such a diverse range
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:56, Reply)

I'm reading Draclier at the moment.
It's difficult to get Keanu bloody Reeve's voice out of my head when doing so, though.

"I kneow whare the barstard slips!"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 9:58, Reply)

ah, Dracula, literary masterpiece but shockingly written.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 7 Nov 2013, 10:32, Reply)