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If you like the Disney film, you'll like the show it's as simple as that. The musical theatre company I set designed & constructed as well as stage-handed for back in Liverpool Uni put this on one term and I discovered that the script is pretty much the same, give or take a few lines and add the most beautiful song of the lot which isn't in the film at all; I don't know if it was written for the stage or they simply cut it not to depress the kiddies with too much angst...! Even though I saw this from the wings while down with a terrible cold (I had to wait for the noisy bits to cough, as the theatre was very small and I was about ten feet from the front row), I loved every minute and sobbed my heart out recommended!

Me too, that's why I was watching it for the second time home for Christmas so I'm showing Mum films from my personal collection; I'd seen Penelope with a friend last New Year's and we'd bought thought 'awwww', and at the end .

Yay and double-yay! Good to hear that your renegade mojo has put in an appearance, and also good to hear you enjoyed Dracula The Undead - Noll's less-than-thrilled review has been putting me off slightly which wasn't too good as I have a signed & dedicated copy on Mount TBR!

Penelope.

May I just quote Pratchett's ever-eloquent Opera Ghost and say, 'Ahahahahahahahahaha!!!!' ? Unsurprisingly, you are doing much better than I am though you started much later - I am still halfway through TWoLP. Jasper deserves 100% of my unadulterated attention, and I can't give him that at the minute. If I leave it any longer I might have to start it again from the beginning when the time comes, which would bother me were he less of a Writer and kindred spirit. I hope we both get to sink our teeth into the rest of his opera omnia soon .

We showed City of Ember to mum last night, and I'm pleased to report that she enjoyed it very much .

Peter's Denial - Jesus Christ Superstar, London Studio Cast Recording The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) - John Lennon I'm Alive - The Hollies Oh My Love - John Lennon Give Ireland Back to the Irish - Paul McCartney Lyin' Eyes - The Eagles Another Day - Paul McCartney Stars - Les Miserabl

Good review there my friend I don't believe I've ever posted mine on here as it was written before I joined, so here it is: Even better than "The Eyre Affair"! There's a trial in Kafka's "Trial" (this chapter made my head spin so much I had to read it three times and then accept it would always baffle me; Franz would have been proud), a Miss Havisham so real she hops off the page and beats you with her stick for blaspheming (I don't dare read "Great Expectations" now; I'm actually afraid Dickens's potrait of her won't do justice to Jasper Fforde's...!), a loveable Cheshire Cat-turned librarian, the greatest Shakespeare discovery in the history of history, an all-too-realistic contemporary art exibition, plus more of everything you will have loved from the first book: Thursday's delightful time-travelling dad, her adorable dodo, her complicated love life; not to mention pure evil, alive and not, human and not. This sent me scouting various Waterstone's for "The Well of Lost Plots" - which leads me to a gripe: why do clever, funny, precious authors like Jasper Fforde get so little bookshop shelf-space dedicated to them (...)? Books like this should be thrown at people's heads just so they come across them, not hidden like something to be ashamed of! One minor note: do not try to start from here. Jasper Fforde's magical world is by this point far too developed for it to make much sense: this is not a series of stand-alone books, it is a continuous story that needs reading in the order it's been written... unless you want to end up very confused, and unable to understand what all the hype is about. Which would be a shame, because for once it is a highly justified hype.

You might be interested in this old thread of mine, then others of the kind have been added to that wishlist since, I can find the titles out for you if you'd like me to?

Saw 500 Days of Summer with my girlfriends today and it wasn't the best laid plan, the film upset me quite a bit and I'd rather I hadn't seen it.

These sound interesting what are they?

Hello I must say, I approve of your name and picture, as well as (of course) of pirates! In fact, let me start recommending books to you right now (this is the first of a series; they can be read as standalones however, which is good as I'm not even sure whether anything after Book 1 was ever translated into English): Emilio Salgari, an Italian who never moved from Turin but was armed with an encylopaedic knowledge of distant lands and a staggering visual imagination, wrote a marvellous book called The Black Corsair (hopefully followed by The Queen of the Carribbean; Iolanda, The Daughter of The Black Corsair; and The Son of the Red Corsair). One of my absolute favourite books when I was younger, The Black Corsair tells of a nobleman driven from his native Italy and into a life of piracy by the slaughterer of his family, revenge against whom he swears after the murder at his hands of his brothers - the Red and Green Corsairs. It and its sequels are gorgeously, lusciously written (it is near impossible to believe Salgari never set foot in the Americas), as well as full of of action, romance, ideals. You name it, it's there.

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - Les Miserabl

Wahey, I was right (although I have not read The Trial )! Glad you enjoyed it, looking forward to your review.

@ Nightingale: alas, I've not read North and South, however I mean to at some point as I'm told the story is compelling (some of my friends loved the recent-ish mini-series). I'd say it's probably a good thing for you to be reading at this stage - your teacher's explanations will jump to the fore of your brain as you pick it up again, so it shouldn't be as uphill a struggle as Frankenstein! @ CaliLily: wow, you're getting through that quick! I stand by what I said, go find some hankies between Cantos IV and V, though I will not spoil why... you'll find out soon enough, at this rate.

Ah well, I am currently home for Christmas and therefore deprived of English-speaking bookstores however, I hereby promise to pick it up in the new year, deal?

I'm so glad you're enjoying it, it's one of those pieces of literature that are hard work but return everything you give them tenfold and then some. *hands some hankies over for when you reach Canto V *.

Oooh I like to see such eagerness, I have been picking up The Knife of Never Letting Go up in shops and putting it down again for ages now, so it's encouraging to hear how much you liked it.

Oooh, very nice any ones you're particularly looking forward to? I did warn you is it the good kind of brain hurt though, i.e. releasing the endorphines of exercise?

BBC Pride & Prejudice with my mum and sis - it's official, it's Christmas.

Indeed I haven't read American Gods yet, however I have recently purchased it at an airport with every intention of reading it after I'd finished my current book - I'm hoping to succeed in that pursuit tonight and be able to start on American Gods tomorrow. I've so far loved Neverwhere and Stardust (good to hear you have the latter on your shelf already); I love the idea behind American Gods and am intrigued to see how it's executed - everyone I know who's read it either praises it to the skies or hated it, so I want to see what the fuss was all about.

He is so cuuute in that equally talented and dishy if entirely different I find Yul Brinner in The King and I...!

I agree entirely - the only thing that irks me is that they felt the need to get pretty leads who couldn't sing and needed to be dubbed the all-singing all-dancing supporting cast could act (fact confirmed by the Oscars won by both Rita Moreno-Anita and George-Chakiris-Bernardo; Tucker Smith-Ice was also brilliant though Russ Tamblyn-Riff was my personal favourite, as I'd developed a crush on his younger self in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) so surely they could have found some leads who could hold a tune. Other than that, I love WSS and would die happy if I could see it on the stage. It's one of those musicals guaranteed to make me blubber every time, particularly at ! I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it Kylie - I have friends who didn't like it either but then those same friends aren't moved by Romeo and Juliet, which forms the basis for the story; maybe therein lies the problem, it is representative of a view of love you don't subscribe to?