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You've just reminded me, I used to own a wooden Harry Potter bookmark - it was lovely and Hedgwig-shaped and I've got no idea where it flew to
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Make that 9 musicals3. Joanna - Sweeney Todd soundtrack
and, I love this song!
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then again...I don't really like John Malkovich, so that could have had something to do with it
Possibly
!To be fair, my opinions are but based on the splendid job he did as Javert in the European TV Les Miserabl
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Favourite musicals would have to be the following 8 (awkward number, I know), more or less in order:
Les Miserabl
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I second that - the week I was off school with a broken foot I pretty much went through every book in the house that I hadn't read already. Then, because there was nothing else left and boredom beckoned, I asked my sister to lend me thoseI never read so many books though as when I was off work for 2 months with a broken ankle - I could do nothing else but read - it was great Harry Potters.Let me just say I read books 1-3 in a day and book 4 in a single sitting the day after...
.It's just a shame that after such a conversion, the eagerly awaited book 5 disappointed, and 6 and 7 more so
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Show Me - My Fair Lady OST
I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - Phil Ochs
Bring Him Home - Les Miserabl
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Thought I should add that I HUGELY enjoyed The Children's Book - if I hadn't loved it as much as I did, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bothered to let it take up so much of my day!
As I have this on Peak Wishlist, that's very good to know
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Thanks to The Book People and Amazon I have just spent lots of money I don't have, mostly (but not exclusively), on the first wave of Christmas presents:
- Foyle's Philavery, Further Foyle's Philavery & My Foyle's Philavery x 2 (one set is for me, the other for one of my Liverpool Uni friends who's coming down to London to visit at the weekend)
- Doctor Who: Decide Your Destiny (12-book set, for my big sister)
- Where the Wild Things Are (so that OH may relive his childhood)
- This lovely edition of Jane Eyre (for the Comparative Lit thread)
All really cheap and bargainful but when you chuck in a couple of DVDS and Express Deliveries, you've somehow spent over
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"Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs, impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole."
Pretty - I want to read The Thirteenth Tale even more now. Me likes web imagery (why, I even worked it into my dissertation title, it being my main metaphor for the pattern of the Shakespearean sonnet
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Hmmm. I'm not sure if we have them and if we did, I'm not about to leave the estate at 2am - it's alright as far as council blocks of flats go but I do value my limbs. That said, I will try to make it my next film-seeing experience
I'm bound to be very opinionated about it when I do see it, so I'll be posting a linky to the inevitable IMBD review for your perusal. -
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... I have always wanted to see Being John Malkovich (incidentally, an actor I find amazing) though. -
Ah yes, obviously.*Spike Jonze, BookJumper. Spike Jonze. You can't go wrong!* who
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The rest of the cinema-going year for me and OH will include: 9, Avatar, Where the Wild Things Are (I've had a deprived childhood, or so I'm told, because I don't think my mum ever read this to me
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Location: UK
Will send: worldwide
Wishlist (for the love of Santa, trade not mass market paperback):
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
Neverness (Voyager Classics) by David Zindell
Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar
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Hello and welcome from someone who's just finished what you are beginning (finished, that is, unless I take leave of the last of my senses and apply for a PhD... which, on the face of it, looks rather likely)
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I'd say that's one successful book you wouldn't have picked up of your own accordA few chapters into Jane Eyre, and oh my, is this book superb so far. I want to slap some sense into certain characters. Jane is my soul sister.
!As for me... irked, irked, irked. After my inconclusive mission on Friday, I traipsed back to the sorting office in hope of finding my copy of Inkheart from BookMooch. Ironically, it's Inked... there's pen marks across the sides of the pages. OH, lovelily, tried to rub them off thinking they were pencil - guess what, the
rubber stained. So now I've got red marks on there as well as the original pen ones. Yippee.On a further sour note, my replacement bank card has entirely failed to arrive at the branch, and no Jane Eyre for me until it does
.As I said: irked, irked, irked.
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Glad to have helped, and - please do come back and tell us how it was
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Why, thank youDitto to what BookJumper said about King. She hit the nail on the head. one does try.
Me tooI think this may be why I did relate a bit to Carrie as a teenager. I was not popular, often ridiculed and yes, tortured, through high school..
I don't think it needs explaining per se in the same way that the thought processes behind the actions of Carrie's tortures don't need explaining - the point for me is that religious fanatics, like bullies, do exist in the real world, and that their existence and intolerance breeds sufferingThe character I was disappointed in with this book was Carrie's mother. Yes, she was a religious fanatic. But why? My own mother is religious, but nothing like Carrie's mother. Carrie's mother didn't make sense to me. My own mother does. I understand where my mother's religious beliefs come from. I did not understand where Carrie's mother's fanatical beliefs came from. At least, Stephen King did not explain it to my satisfaction..
WaheyI would.!
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Haven't read them myself, but a quick search on Amazon returned these as the most popular one-volume biographies of lots of different inventors:
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by John R. Gribbin
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The Lives, Loves and Deaths of Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors by Jeremy Coller and Christine Chamberlain.
Hope that helps.
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I actually find that the only true horrors to be found in Stephen King are the demons that abide in all of us, which some people pay more heed to than others. Take Carrie - it's not really a novel about telekinesis,
murdering your classmates and teachers, or your mother before she can murder you
; what it is is a novel about bullying, peer pressure, intolerance, fanatism and the devastating psychological results that all of the above can have on the vulnerable teenage soul. I don't find that twisted, I find it touchingly perceptive, particularly coming from a man who can't possibly know first hand what it feels like to be an unpopular school-girl.
Just my tuppence, of course
as for the vampires - alas, it looks like you'll never read my book then (I kid, I kid).Things I wouldn't touch with a bargepole, in no particular order:
- Chick lit casting women as air-headed gold-diggers and men as rough and rugged commodities whose attractiveness is directly proportionate to their career/bank account.
- Umberto Eco, the pretentious windbag.
- Dan Brown, whose works are ever more badly written than they are researched.
- Stephanie Meyer, with her 500-word vocab, her two-dimensional sparkly vampires and her utter incomphrehension of the workings of high school politics.
- Federico Moccia, Italian "literary phenomenon" (the guy's won awards, they've made musicals from the drivel he concocts!) who writes the most predictable teenage romances of all timein the most preposterous style of all time... and I quote/translate:
"Kiss. Soft kiss, slow kiss, non-rushed kiss. Traminer-tasting kiss, light kiss, kiss of tongues in conflict, surf kiss, kiss on the wave, kiss I'm bitten, kiss I'd like to continue but I can't. Kiss I can't. Kiss there's people."
or, even better:
"You know mayonnaise? Yes, mayonnaise, the one in fast-food stores, the one you squeeze tubes and it comes out. I think there's nothing more difficult to do, putting together the eggs, the lemon, the salt, the oil... well, believe me, compared to that it's easier to fall in love with someone you thought you thought you'd never ever like. For real, mayonnaise is like this, it can go crazy at any moment, a second it seems perfect and the second after all the ingredients are off on their own... but if you make it there's nothing that can stop you."
And no, the grammar wasn't lost in translation - it was quite simply never there.
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Agreed 100%.If you the author know that your book has failed to communicate it's message(s), then it is your job to fix that book so that it does so. Otherwise, your novel is a big, fat FAILURE. In other words, Faulkner, by his own admittance, has failed as an artist (at least with this particular novel). Art should not need an explanation, especially by the creator of it!I can't help but be reminded of the Black Books episode where Manny managed to sell someone "Ulysses, a Guide to Ulysses and a Handbook to the Guide to Ulysses"
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Victor's been my favourite novelist for the past decade; I'll admit shamefully to having never read his poetry though. Seems like I'll have to research that as well as his conversations with the dead (no fair, why did he have a direct line with Shakespeare and I don't?! *sulks*).I've posted this earlier as well, but my favourite for years has been Victor Hugo -
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Hello, welcome, have some cat-book suggestions
:- Tad Williams, Tailchaser's Song. Absolutely fantabulous fantasy book about cats, one of my favourite books as a child (although I don't think it's actually a children's book).
- Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself (this is actually a short-story for children, but does it matter, when the story is this good?).
- Julia Jarman, The Time-Travelling Cat (another childhood favourite). Should you like it, it's a series.
- T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Pratical Cats, aka the collection of poetry the musical Cats is based on.
- Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who ... series. I plan to read at least one of these cat-mysteries at some point, as there's one called The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare.
- Soseki Natsume, I Am a Cat. Haven't read this yet but fully intend to, it sounds brilliant if a bit difficult to describe.
I also remember reading a really moving (fictional) book about a cat that walked an incredibly great distance to get back home to his/her owner(s?), but alas I cannot remember the author or title
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Amazon - Free UK Delivery
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Not unless you choose First Class or Express delivery - Free Super Saver Delivery rules still apply, regardless of the method Amazon choose to send the goods to you.
They're currently choosing couriers over Royal Mail at the minute because given the current strike situation, people risk not getting their orders in time for Christmas otherwise.
It's the same with The Book People - free delivery over