It's an amazing book, isn't it?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WANNqr-vcx0
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:40, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

It's one of my favourites
that, Alice through the Looking Glass and Three Men in a Boat are books I could re-read again and again, but not any more than that.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:43, Reply)

3 men in a boat
is my dad's favourite book ever. i re-read it recently for the first time since i was quite little, it is very funny in places, but i could do without the lyrical waxing in parts!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:45, Reply)

But that's half the appeal!
the lyric whimsy of Jerome K Jeromes description of when life was bit simpler. I had it on audio tape a long time ago, it was great for car journeys.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:47, Reply)

PG Wodehouse is the whimsy master.
unlike me, the 'Mimsy Master'...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:49, Reply)

I've never read anything by him.
What would you recommend for a beginner?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:50, Reply)

jeeves and wooster!
or the clicking of cuthbert.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:51, Reply)

I shall track some down
I take it these are out of copyright now!
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:54, Reply)

What's the best Jeeves and Wooster story?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:55, Reply)

Right Ho, Jeeves

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:57, Reply)

i don't know actually
but you can certainly get them for pence on amazon/ebay! p g wodehouse was an absolute master of the english language.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:58, Reply)

I download my books off Project Gutenberg
My Sony Reader was a fantastic present.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:01, Reply)

Legal question
I would have thought that if someone is charged with assault and there is no doubt that an actual blow was struck then it was down to the defence to prove it was self defence, but the Smellie (pffft) judge said it was down to the prosecution to prove that it wasn't. What's it all about Rachel?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:03, Reply)

I suppose it has to be the Jeeves & Wooster stories
but there are many more quality tomes from the fellow well worth investigating, such as Young Men in Spats.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:55, Reply)

Young men in Spats isn't available on Project Gutenberg
but I'll give Right Ho Jeeves and teh Clicking of Cuthbert a go.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:59, Reply)

You'll love them
unless you are a helmet, of course, which you really aren't.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:01, Reply)

I don't know
I like both Iron Maiden and Saxon.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:03, Reply)

Deaf, maybe, but not a helmet
I'll lend you that Saxon film if and when it arrives. The trailer I got with Classic Rock mag is fucking hysterical.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:07, Reply)

Cool
We should organise another Tayyabs visit. My arse is feeling far too cosy. Swipey should come with us.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:13, Reply)

Absolutely.
Wasn't Mr Crow a charming gentleman? Unlike me, a fucking barbarian...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:23, Reply)

why do they sound rude
when you say the names?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:03, Reply)

I have one of those mouths that just eminates filth.
You should meet me in person, I'm like a mental erection, constantly thrusting into your train of thought.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:04, Reply)

i read that as a "metal erection" then
now that would have been hardcore!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 23:07, Reply)

i like h e bates as well
the "pop larkin chronicles" (ie "darling buds of may" but the books not the simpering tv programme) make you wish it was 60 years ago!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:51, Reply)

in a similar vein
the James Herriott books are thoroughly enjoyable.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 9:15, Reply)

Susan Cooper's
'The Dark is Rising' series I could read a million times and never tire of. Them and 'Moon the Loon' by Dougal Butler.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 22:47, Reply)