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I have a book with Nemi strips collected.
Which one is it emelee? I have ordered Vol.1 as it was very cheap. Some of the others are very expensive it seems, and Vol.2 seems impossible to find
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I just bought the first Nemi compliation from 2007 from Amazon for 1p! I will let you know what it is like when it gets here.
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I started noticing the Nemi cartoon strip published in the Metro* when I sold my car last year and began riding the bus. She caught my eye because she reminded me a lot of Thoughtful Daughter. A couple of months ago I started saving the cartoon strips I came across and bought a little photo album to display them in.
I found out today she has existed since 1999 and is Norwegian in origin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_(comic_strip)
*For our US friends, the Metro is a free newspaper that is given away on public transport buses and the London Underground
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Oh no! Not Rockford!
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This place has been home for 4 years I only come on here to discuss books (and sadly not now as often as I would like) and have never been on goodreads. It would seem superfluous.
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"No Mr. Bond, I want you to die." We watched a peculiar little film called 12 Monkeys the other night. A young Bruce Willis, and a very young Brad Pitt. So well acted. Pitt makes a great "crazy".
12 monkeys is an incredible time travel film.
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Sleepy Hollow (again) and the first two of the "Girl with Dragon tattoo" trilogy.
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Hi athena well done being promoted a moderator!
One thing about the ADD book you reviewed that I found unintentionally funny was when you said the medication chapter was not very long. It struck me that all the chapters might end up being short in a book by an ADD sufferer as they might lose interest in writing one half way through and want to get on to the next!
. Sorry... 
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Hi bobbly bear I have put Pandora's Star on my wish list. Thanks!
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The Violent Century 2/5
Lavie Tidhar
This is a marmite book for most it seems judging by reviews. I liked it OK and was not put off by the strange style of rendering the dialogue without quotation marks. In fact I remembered reading a WW2 fiction book (the title of which I have long forgotten, but now wish I had again) which was written in exactly that same style and contained many similar episodes. It was about partizans and secret agents.
The Violent Century was OK. It started off very interesting..it sort of examines the premise of what would happen if mutants like the X-men had appeared among mankind in 1932. The author's take on it is that they would get caught up in WW2 just like everybody else. Each nation uses them in ways consistent with their national character- America for instances dresses theirs in garish superhero costumes and uses them for propaganda purposes. Britain uses them behind the scenes as spies and secret agents. But when all is said and done they are still human and they get battered and smashed by the war and the wars afterwards. That was the interesting bit of the book really; the actual plot was very thin but the emotional changes they went through was a sort of parallel to the physical changes they had gone through that made them different.
I struggled to rate this book a bit. At first I gave it a 3 but then knocked it up to a 4 for the ending, which does tie things up. Others may not like it at all. [edit] since writing this review I have changed my mind about this book and now have knocked it right down to a 2 . I think because the story is kind of lazy. It would have been a sharp and interesting short story though.
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This is my all time favourite Dola Re Dola from the film Devdas. Two fantastic dancers in one number .
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Slammin' Salmon a comedy film. Seen it before but it's amusing. So sad knowing Michael Clarke Duncan is no longer with us.
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Have you read the books? They are on my TBR list, curious to see if they are as good as the movies...
I only read the first book, it is NO WAY as good as the latest incarnation of the movies.
Here is my review from 2012, in spoiler tags:
The Bourne Identity
Robert Ludlum
I am sorry to say that I did not enjoy this novel as much as it may have deserved. The reason was that my perception of the Jason Bourne character has been completely coloured by the recent 21st century film version, which I prefer.
I found the original novel very dated. It was all about Vietnam,and fabled 70's assassins and international banking. It was all cleverly thought out but the plot seemed to move at a snail's pace, there was not too much excitement. Of course being the 70's there was none of that clever stuff with mobile phones that would have speeded it up.
Fatally, I did not like the main character or that of Marie St Jaques. Bourne in the book seemed to have a strategy of blocking bullets with his body rather than avoiding them, he must have been shot about 9 times in the story, had his fingers crushed and his throat half cut but he was always up and about after a little rest and/or a cuddle with Marie which was a bit ridiculous.
I won't be reading any of the sequels but will continue to enjoy the film versions.
I would not have finished it, I was on the point of giving up when there was a big twist just after half way.
Really, don't bother. Just enjoy the movies.
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He would be awesome but less of a jerk
.I don't know Harry Palmer but I think Michael Caine is a great actor. I've seen him in a few films now and all of his performances have been great. I haven't seen the Jason Bourne films, though I've heard a few things about them. I might see them in the future, I believe my brother owns them on DVD, I think.
The Jason Bourne films with Matt Damon in are brilliant.
Harry Palmer is a character from a series of spy books by an English author can't remember who. Michael Caine played him in the films. They made 5 films but only the first 3 are considered any good : The Ipcress File, Funeral In Berlin and The Billion Dollar Brain.
I like sixties British films because of the style of filming and Harry Palmer is a very laid back sort of civil servant spy and there are no rocket packs and gadgets like in James Bond.
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Yesterday I watched Dr. No. I hadn't seen it before nor have I seen much of James Bond films fully. I liked it but there were quite a few things about it that annoyed me (such as the amount of smoking, the flirting, some of the characters could've been more developed, the story was a bit confusing). I liked the action and the music though
.Where would James Bond be without some smoking and flirting?
I got tired of the Bond films and much prefer Jason Bourne and Harry Palmer. (Michael Caine).
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Guess I'm lucky in that my ear canals seem okay with them. My friend had a similar problem to yours and he started using these instead and he rates them very highly. Might be worth a look
Thanks everybody for the feedback. Looks like there are products on the market that will help me, maybe a combination of things.
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^ I've done the same - the ones I've got come with three different size covers for the bud so you can get the one that's the best fit, although the left one is still prone to escaping occasionally!
I bought some like this Claire with the three different sizes so you can get a snug fit inside your ear ....but they still fall out! And the hard type are simply useless no matter what shape .
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It's the 21st century so why can't they manage to design some earbuds that actually FIT and STAY in human ears? It's not like ears changed suddenly they are they the ones we have always had.
Rant mode off
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Kung Fu Hustle. Such a perfect, perfect feelgood film
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Sorry to go back a few pages, James, but shame you didn't like the Swayze book. He was a great actor in the films I saw him in... which weren't many! The two you mention are great - have you seen Keeping Mum? He plays a totally different character in that to the characters in Dirty Dancing and Ghost. Quite an eye-opener.
Hi Janet no haven't seen that one. I have never seen Road House either, which is supposed to be good.
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The first three on your list are all in walking distance plus you have Forbidden Planet at the top end of Shaftesbury Avenue (just about opposite Neal Street/Endell street) very near the New Foyles, and if you walk down to Trafalgar Square past Cecil Court there is a huge Waterstones there too in The Grand Building. I don't know how this compares to the one in Picadilly though, I just mention it as it is on the same Charing Cross Road and you can do 3 birds in one without risking getting lost or too tired. But of course walking to Picadilly through Leicester Square will be fun in itself, lots to see and photograph.... personally, if I was including Picadilly then I would make that 3-4 places one whole days exploration as it makes a right angle triangle around Leicester Square with lots of interest packed inside the triangle... 2 art galleries (with their own bookshops, don't forget!!)
Primrose Hill Books is far out on the North side of Regent's Park , nearest tube is Chalk Farm ... Daunt Books in Marylebone is almost directly South of Primrose Hill on the South side of Regent's Park..it makes sense to do them together and perhaps walk across the park between..Regents Park is beautiful . That I would say would be another half day depending on how much browsing time...if you incuded Madame Taussuds that would easy make it another whole day, without too much walking
Lutyens & Rubenstein is far out west in W11. That will definitely be a special trip. It is very near Portobello Road market, but I don't know what that is like. Kensington is nice it has lots of nice buildings .
Hope this helps. I wouldn't advise you trying to do them all in one day.
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Wow some of them are far apart....they look like a little distance on the map but believe me I have walked it. It's easy to clock up 10-12 miles in a days walking. If you are OK with that, you will see lots of interesting stuff on foot (I mean apart from the bookshops). But if you want to stay fresh I suggest grabbing an Oyster card to get around on the tube.(Underground). It's much better than the old way of buying tickets. Just make sure you flash the oyster card at the end of the journey otherwise it carries on charging you and doesn't know you have got off!
How long you going to be in London Bethany?
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Amazingly, I haven't read a magazine now for three years.! I didn't realize that until I saw this topic. I have a few back issues of magazines in a box that I moved in with, about 20 in total. Most of them are popular science, Focus and Scientific American . (mostly special issues) There are also a couple of National Geographics with articles about prehistoric humans, a couple of Men's Health, An Empire film magazine , couple of BBC History Magazine....then let's see...a couple of Maxim and a tattoo magazine. That's it.
Does anybody else like Nemi?
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Haha like the cover of that one! It fits that she would be wearing a Punisher T-shirt....