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I doubt you'll hear it was mingingHow did the cake taste Muggle?
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I just avoid anything with David Jason in it.
Never have I seen a man quite so satisfied with himself
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Well most men over forty are one or more of the following:
* Lovely but married/in a long term relationship
* Gay
* Bitter about women from a recent divorce
* looking for somebody to look after them
* Have let themselves go. Big time
* Bossy, wanting to tell me how to live my life
* A total player
Or you can find somebody lovely and then find out that he 'has the children every weekend'!!!!!!
So, I'm sure you can see my problem. Plus I bet you can add every man you know into at least one of those categories
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She is 15 years old and will have a Birthday in May.
Bless. And loves baking.
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It's hard to find a man older than me who still has anything about him
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I am too old for Mum to buy me more than one. I was going to open mine this evening while I was on my own, but the baby couldn't resist.
Your OH didn't get you one?!?!?
Muggle that cake is so cute, how old is your grand-daughter (she asks hoping said Grand-daughter is not 23)
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I've got mixed feelings.
I've only just read the book so it's all pretty fresh in my mind.
There were a few cases missing (the missing husband, the Patel girl, the doctor who was good and bad and others I can't recall off the top of my head, the secretary isn't really as described, there is no camp crimper and she had another 'Gentleman friend' who also asked her to marry him (the Doctor I think)
But it did very much have the essence of the books and was lovely TV. Can I also say that I thought the gangster chap was very lush in his specs
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I love it,wish we had a bit more of that here. It seems sometimes as if our holidays are being slowly eroded away just to become more shopping days at DIY stores or Garden centres.
Yep. Or the opportunity to sell yet more greetings cards.Bah!
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Which writer was it that said something like, "If it reads like writing, I cut it out and start again"?
I don't know (is it a quiz?) but they deserve a prize. Something understated like the Nobel Prize for Literature. Or something.
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I'm kind of with you Andy, I like something to flow rather than read the flowery ramblings of a writer who maybe should have been a poet
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By using spoiler tags it means we don't exclude anyone from the conversation and they can comment on what they'e seen without feeling a spoiler might be just around the corner.
I don't like the idea of anyone avoiding threads in case someone might say something to ruin their enjoyment. This way, if you've seen it you can read it and if you haven't, you can run back and read it when you have.
It's ok, I'm a bit anal about spoilers. I even avoid writing any in my blog as I've had several books spoilt for me on here by people posting stuff in random threads, such is life I suppose.
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I like to watch the one episode a week, I avoid spoilers but I do like to talk about the one aired on bbc2.
Not everyone watches the next one on bbc3.
I meant the usual terrestrial pace, I'd class the BBC3 one as 'ahead of time'
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I just added in some spolier tags there.
There was a lot of information and it may be spoilt for someone who hasn't quite caught up yet.
Not meaning to be a 'spoil' sport
Not sure about anybody else but if I haven't yet seen a TV programme when it's aired, then I avoid threads about it like the plague
It's a different matter if it's a downloaded show or similar I suppose
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It makes me smile how the North Americans are so big on 'holidays' and 'tradition' it's all so quaint
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Oh, and I LOVED her unreliable narrator. I won't mention the title here because I might give it away but first person unreliable is immensely difficult to pull off and she did it admirably.
(Sorry I'm going off on my writer's kick again...)
I'm a huge fan of hers as you probably know and know exactly which book you mean. There was a massive furore at first I think because of ... well, you know
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Yeah, I stopped reading these quite a few years ago too.
But for those of you who love her, you should try the first book of that type 'The Valley of the Dolls' by Jacqueline Susann - it's excellent. Or for a similar read but maybe a little 'better' 'Princess Daisy' by Judith Krantz. There's a scene in that I can still remember clearly despite reading it when it was first published around 25 years ago
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Thank you Prospero, that makes a lot of sense to a non-writer. Two questions:
1. Could you give an example of the Deus ex machina in current literature please?
2. Does this mean Agatha Christie's good? (I know she is, but am curious as to your feelings whilst using this 'evidence')
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I wouldn't mind a wolf, although a lion/tiger would maybe be more appropriate
I was extremely drawn to Hester the hare in the books though. For those who don't remember, she was Lee Scoresby's daemon
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Totally impossible to pick just one!
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
But there are others too!
I bet you could if you had a gun to your head
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No head-jumping, overuse of dialogue tags or exclamation marks, no coincidences or deus ex machina plot resolutions, minimal telling-not-showing, lack of predictability but with the feeling of 'this is the only way the story could have worked out', culminating in the thought "I wish I'd written that."
Could we have that in the style of 'Writing for Dummies' please?
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He was lush wasn't he?
All my mates were into American 'boys' like Donny Osmond or David Cassidy.
Odd how I like them younger now
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I can't believe there isn't already a thread for this, but I've looked and gone back as far as I care and can't see one so good call Kenny.
My favourite book is 'Mr God this is Anna' by Fynn. Link, as it's quite obscure
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That's briliant!
I can't wait for Michael Jackson's Child care books, Paris Hiltons "This many fingers" advanced math guidebook and Britney Spreas' "How to make right decisions with a bald head".
You could have a whole new thread on suggestions for other books
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V - that kitten is sooo cute!
Thank you
I shall tell Milly you think she's nice However, not when she's bringing me worms or slugs she isn't
I may change the picture for her sister at some point
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Read the book.
Don't bother watching it
Or watch it as a 'normal programme' rather than the televisual experience it's been hyped as and then read the books way in the future