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Glad you're enjoying H2G2 Whitegold, yes it's weird but awesomely weird, definitely one of the books that defined me
.Today I read 3 pages of Eyes Like Stars on the bus and NINETY-SIX pages of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dod in the Nighttime, which I found under the till in work
that amounts to a third of the reading I've done all year pretty much, all in one day - yay, I no longer feel like a fraud being on here! -
I'd seen The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart before and it'd intrigued me; you've sold it to me
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Sweet Little Sixteen - Chuck Berry.
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Well done Frankie
!Difficult to know without owning a set of scales
however, comfort eating of my own or not, I must weigh somewhat less than I did when I started on the SF shakes, considering I now fit into the dreaded pair of jeans that I hadn't been able to wear since purchase and even into my polka dot skirt (one of those motivational 'I want to fit into this again' garments). -
Les Miserabl
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Good haul Karsa, I'dbe interested in your thoughts on - well, pretty much all of them!
I find it such a beautiful rant, though. I understand what you mean about the voyeuristic feeling it gives you - it is, after all, a private letter written at a very tragic point in time - but I like that in the sense that this is probably the closest we'll ever get to Oscar Wilde as he really was beneath the flippant carefree wit.I've been reading Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, it's a bit uncomfortable. A bit like watching someone in the toilet when they don't know about it. Talk about rant! -
So bizarre - I thought I could be of some help here as I distinctly remember reading Clive Barker YA novels by the handful when I was smaller, but I can't find anything I recognise on his official bibliography, which doesn't seem to include a young persons' section at all... I'm sure I haven't imagined them, but why does no one (including Barker himself on his own website) list them?!He's also penned some novels aimed at younger age-groups, but aside from The Thief Of Always, I can't recommend any. -
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and reading material, obviously, and the following is no more than my own tuppence on the subject
while I have shelves filled with non-fiction, I do think that the entire point of good fiction is to teach readers without them feeling like they are being lectured at.Fiction has made me who I am, by teaching me about loyalty, love, Ideas; through books about things that have mostly never happened I have learnt the way humans think, feel, interact; within the pages of novels I have discovered just how beautiful and base, how amazing and how abject, how divine and despicable people can be. I have learnt to judge less and listen more, to give value to experiences different than my own and always question my preconceptions. I have inferred values, nurtured passions, developed my understanding of the workings of the world.
I could never consider that a waste of time
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keeps the doctor away - remember, TBRs make us immortalA book a day!!!!
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... the OST to Lost Boys is awesome, but then the entire thing is - motorcycle ridin' vamps with mullets, one of which is Kiefer Southerland
movies don't get much better! -
Pecan.
Sauna or Turkish Bath?
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You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones.
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I'm not one to notice soundtracks unless they're absolutely insanely good; those of Easy Rider and Wild Hogs definitely tick that box. A Hard Day's Night and Help! probably have the best OSTs of all time, but I don't think it fair to count the movies by the greatest band of all time, it's just too uneven a match!
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Spiders.
Harley Davidson or Honda Shadow?
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I also don't like being preached by - by anyone of any persuasion, which is why I won't be reading any more Dawkins any time soon
. Even as an agnostic though, I find that so many good writers (from Milton to to the Miltonic Steven Brust) take their ideas from religious concepts that it would be a crime to ignore them. -
Heading for the Light - Traveling Wilburys.
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Eeyore!
Cotton candy or hot dog?
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Old Harry's Game is fantastic, it's a BBC comedy radio series about a bureaucratic Hell and is, well, funny as Hell.
And of course, I can't help but second Adams's H2G2 - a timeless classic.
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One more reason for me not to invest, then
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Great haul, Vinay
going in for 1 book and coming out with 13 extra is what I call shopping skillz. I thoroughly approve of those books you've bought that I have read, by the way. -
Daybreakers. Brilliant premise - decent film, except for the continuity errors galore.
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Hijacked
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Vintage Cheddar & Onion Pickle Walkers Sensations crisps; I have the sensation they might be followed shortly by a warmed-up slice of yesterday's leftover pizza.
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Painting.
Colour pics or B/W?
Your Book Activity Today - Thread 11
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Also, I uncovered in the charity shop where I volunteer an absolutely beautiful 1883 quart-leatherbound history of German literature with magnificent fold-out illustrations for all of