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...stolen unashamedly (although with some changes) from the Big Read website:
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
4. give three words to describe your taste books
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
b. most annoying
c. worst
book you've ever read?
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
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pandop
7th Jan 2004, 10:56
9:well here goes:
1: Old Possums Book of Practical Cats
2: Can't remember what was my favourite, but as my mum was a teacher we still have a lot of my early books, and there is a definite empahisis on myths and legends and classic fairy tales - so anything like that I guess (and I still like the same things) - and I think this really helped with American Gods!
I remember being terrified by The Billy Goats Gruff....
3:Robinson Crusoe for the reading group, and Head Over Heels in the Dales - Gervase Phinn, which I will be borrowing from my mum this weekend.
4: eclectic, owt, random
5: not a book - just fan fic stories
6: last friday, Borders in Leeds.
7: not sure, but as for Britney ....
8: depending on the person, yes
9a: not sure about this one
9b: The God of Small Things
9c: The God of Small Things
10: Knitting!
John Self
7th Jan 2004, 13:40
1. Philip Larkin's Collected Poems
2. Never had any so far as I can recall - still, we were rich in love
3. Stephen Fry's The Stars' Tennis Balls, which I picked up in Tesco on Monday for £2.99 (he's been in mind since his triumphant appearance on Celebrity Mastermind last week)
4. Short, clever, Amis (which also describes my favourite author)
5. Oh yes, on my third
6. At the weekend, Waterstone's
7. I hear he is pretty well hung already (well someone had to do that one)
8. Depends who. A sort of triangulation is possible once you know people's opinions on specific books. For example in films, I know that if Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian likes something I will probably hate it, and vice versa. The opposite goes for the godlike Philip French in the Observer.
9. (a) Jeanette Winterson's Art & Lies - four times...
(b) Mil Millington's Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (I can only remember awful books from the past year or so, earlier ones having been blanked from my head like the memory of childhood abuse - still, we were rich in love)
(c) Toby Litt's Corpsing
10. Me. Look out for Greenland in a shop near you sometime before the last trump.
Colyngbourne
7th Jan 2004, 14:18
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection? Possibly John Clare, or Seamus Heaney
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)? I don’t remember being read to at all, but old Ladybird books have survived – Rumplestiltskin was the scariest. Other early books – Milly-Molly-Mandy books by Joyce Lancaster-Brisley, or the Teddy Robinson books by Joan G. Robinson
3. What have you decided on for your next book? Just began The Idiot by Dostoevsky half an hour ago
4. give three words to describe your taste books eclectic (Pinched from Hazel), non-cliched and broad
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others? Yes, Godloveit. Book 2 is coming slower.
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain? Waterstone’s on 30th Dec.
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him? No – hanging is not good for anyone.
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else? The husband, a couple of friends, a number of people on this site.
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult Tirant lo Blanc – Joannot Martorell & Marti Joan de Galba
b. most annoying ‘Year of Wonders’ Geraldine Brooks - lesbian vicar's wife in dungarees in plague-ridden Eyam
c. worst ‘God of Small Things’ or ‘Shadowmancer’
book you've ever read?
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing? Sadly more historical dramas, with lush actors in swoony clothes.
pandop
7th Jan 2004, 14:22
I had forgotton about Milly-Molly-Mandy ... I loved them as well :)
Hazel
1. Blake Morrison, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper
2. The one that I can recall most vividly is Where the Wild Things Are
3. Crusoe (a la Hazel, above) and Bleak House
4. Oomingmak Fluffy Tufts
5. Yup (bastard agents)
6. Today. Heffers, Cambridge
7. I'd say hanging was just good enough
8. Hmmmm ... last year, yes (with Peace, etc). That can easily change though, eh?
9a. Hadrian: The Restless Emperor (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/041516544X/qid=1073484515/sr=1-65/ref=sr_1_0_65/026-4142129-7678054) by Anthony R. Birley
9b. Weaveworld (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006174892/qid=1073484661/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2_2/026-4142129-7678054) by Clive Barker
9c. We Keep a Pub by Tom Berkely
10. Ian Duncan Smith?
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
The Less Deceived - Larkin.
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
I loved Dr Doolittle
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
Mailman - Thanks Amner! :wink:
4. give three words to describe your taste books
short, funny, violent (the last two are kind of an either/or)
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
Have started, but not nearly finished.
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
This lunchtime. I went in Waterstones and a little local one
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
I am afraid that I don't even have an opinion. Pop music? It's rubbish, right?
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
Aye. Whether I trust that person ever again is another matter.
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
I found The Idiot pretty tricky.
b. most annoying
I found the last chapter of The Man Who Was Thursday irritating, but it didn't spoil it for me.
c. worst book you've ever read?
Probably Hannibal
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
Haven't a clue, and I won't know until it's terribly passe. How about slagging off The Office?
youjustmightlikeit
25th Jan 2004, 16:40
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
The bumper book of limericks
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
Dr Seuss if i remember correctly. The one with the Sneetches with the stars on their bellies taught me a lot about life, and the one with the pair of disembodied trousers that ran about by themselves made me lie awake in wide eyed horror for years. This probably explains why i never wear shorts, if i did there would be one more pair of trousers left unattended somewhere.
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
Buy-to-let for Dummies - my next get rich quick scheme (ok ok, i know it's not quick, but it's a hell of a lot better than that technical analysis mumbo jumbo that i was looking at a while ago). I fancy being a property magnate this week.
4. give three words to describe your taste books
good front cover
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
No, but i'd like to one day.
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
Yesterday
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
Well when he first came out as a solo act i wanted to hate him, but i liked the one with the natty dance moves in - the first one. I even liked the video to his second, you know, the one with the Britney lookalike in the shower and the brunette with the great ass. But it's just getting worse and worse. In his latest i've heard him repeating 'wi tyew' for 'with you' ad nauseum, and it really really gets on my nerves, listen to it next time you hear it, i guarantee it'll have you crawling up the walls.
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
No, never, everyone else is a fool. The last two books i read from recommendations were Italo Calvino's 'If on a winters night a traveller' and B.E.E's 'American Psycho', both books that i could have lived perfectly happily without.
9. What, in your opinion, was the: a. most difficult b. most annoying c. worst book you've ever read?
a. Ulysses, b. Interview with a Vampire, c. Lives of the Monster Dogs
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
I wish i knew, i'd put a few quid in it.
bakunin_the_cat
25th Jan 2004, 19:43
Sorry this is not a violent plan to erase youmightjustlikeit from the history books or not yet anyway (the details still need working out ha! ha!). It's just we both posted on the same subjects. Anyway...
1) Olav Hauge - Leaf huts and snow-houses - I'm not just being obscure. He really is one of the best. Sadly the demand for beautiful and wonderful Norwegian poets is just not what it should be.
2)Also Where The Wild Things Are, though Dr Seuss deserves an honourable mention. The fact that both these people are known in the wilder world outside my head, makes me more happy than you could imagine.
3)Not yet decided. I have replenished my to-read pile enough to have a choice but what the final verdict will have to be a spontaneous decision. I'm currently reading Iris Murdoch's An Unofficial Rose which is mostly about love and posh people. Not my usual fare, but well written enough to keep me interested.
4) Not John Grisham.
Not JK Rowling either. Anybody else I'll give it a go, sometimes I might even like it.
5) Yes. One full book, a bit of a play and too many beginnings to mention.
6) Yesterday. The 2nd-hand bookshop on Stoke Newington Church St, which seemed ludicrously expensive at 2.50 per book though they did have a better selection than my usual Romanian charity shop. I guess you pays your money and takes your choice.
7) If it wasn't him it would be somebody else. Also, I'm old enough not to fear being a social outcast if I don't listen to hip radio or miss TOTP, which helps reduce the exposure levels.
8)Yes. All the time. Fortunately by the time they appear in charity shops I've forgotten what they were. That said, thanks to this site both Peace and McGrath have wedged themselves in my mind and I feel compelled to look for them whenever get the chance but without going so far as just to walk in to Waterstones and buy them.
9a) Spionen som kom inn fra kulden by John le Carre (Norwegian translation)
b) The bonfire of the vanities. I know everybody loves it but i hated it.
c) I'm not sure. The jury's still out.
10 Bubble-wrap underwear.
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
Collected poems by Czeslaw Milosz or (recent discovery) Songs in Flight by Ingeborg Bachmann.
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
Winnie the Pooh and Edith Nesbit.
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
Depending on how goes my struggle with On Heroes and Tombs, I'm either going straight to The Namesake or starting Asylum.
4. give three words to describe your taste books
moving, thought-provoking, inspiring
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
No. I've never been able to finish even a short story.
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
Two days ago, Barnes&Noble.
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
I've managed not to have too much exposure to his works, actions etc., even lately. So I don't care.
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
Trust is not the word. Some of my friends like similar books but I can't say it works every time. Still I like to read books on someone's recommendation, sometimes in hope of discovering a great book, sometimes just to get to know what rocks their boat.
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I liked it at first, thought it was beautiful and unusual, and then at certain point just couldn't take any more of it. Never finished.
b. most annoying
Blind Date by Jerzy Kosinski. Perhaps it should change places with Coelho.
c. worst
By the River Piedra I Sat And Wept by Paulo Coelho. It's been some time since I read it but I remember disliking it a lot.
book you've ever read?
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
No idea, sorry.
youjustmightlikeit
7th Feb 2004, 23:29
I know what you mean about Orlando, starts off beautifully, gets all Frankenstein, with the lush verdant scenery, the gender thing hits in with a spike of interest, then tails off horribly. You didn't finish it, but don't worry. And as for To The Lighthouse, ha! I was younger then though, i still plan to give her another go at some point.
Likewise, I can relate to your opinion on If On A Winter's Night A Traveller. Not really bad, but still rather insipid book cleverly disguised as a postmodernist experiment. Perhaps I should have liked it more, after all a book made up of unfinished beginnings seems like written by a kindred spirit (see my reply to the question 5) - but no.
As to Orlando, I don't know why it was so hard. No one can say that I don't have patience with books, Conrad is a proof. What I say Conrad. In the secondary school I devoured (yes) In Search of Lost Time. But that's past glory, now attention spam decreasing with every year.
NottyImp
11th Feb 2004, 11:56
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
I'm afraid I don't read poetry. I just don't seem to understand it, and suspect I lack the "poetry gene". Just as I lack the "modern jazz" gene.
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
They are, of course, completely non-pc, but I used to love the Brer Rabbit books. I imagine I'd be horrified if I read them now.
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
I haven't. I rarely do until I pick it up.
4. give three words to describe your taste in books
good, clean, prose.
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
No. The odd short story, but not a novel. I know the book I'd like to write, but lack the proficiency.
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
A couple of weeks ago: Warerstones.
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
It's all too horrible to contemplate. Given that I might have as much as four decades left on this earth, I dread to think what depths popular culture will have plumbed by then.
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
Sometimes. Depends on the person and the genre of book.
9. What, in your opinion, was the: a. most difficult b. most annoying c. worst book you've ever read?
a. The Aristocratic Parties of the Roman Republic b. The Black Company c. The Black Company
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
No idea. Probably some annoying "clever" twenty-something.
John Self
11th Feb 2004, 12:12
What's The Black Company :?:
NottyImp
11th Feb 2004, 12:21
It appears in my "101" submission. It is a truly dreadful fantasy novel that I read in my callow youth, and that virtually stopped me reading that genre completely, although to be fair I was pretty disillusioned already.
I can't remember exactly how many grammatical errors I counted in the first chapter, but it was in the dozens. It read as if it had just been published from a first manuscript.
You can find it here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812521390/qid=1076502002/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/102-9290779-4324952
The Amazon reviews themselves are a wonder to behold.
amner
11th Feb 2004, 12:30
have you tried the 'look inside' option? That first page is a doozy. Your choice for the Book Group*, Notty?
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*which it is, next, by the way
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amner
11th Feb 2004, 12:36
Well, I just read what I thought was the impossible - a negative review of Black Company. Go figure?!?
From the same page ... Go on Notty, I'm sure you could confuse the poor guy some more
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NottyImp
11th Feb 2004, 12:44
"Go on Notty, I'm sure you (sic) confuse the poor guy some more."
I can't be bothered. My one-star rating will not significantly reduce the current rating, and that's my criteria for reviewing books I dislike on Amazon.
So my choice in next for the Book Group, huh? I'd better start thinking...
idioteque
19th Feb 2004, 15:02
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
Collected works of Wilfred Owen
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
Can't remember; Mother was a teacher; once I'd finished them they were quickly sent to the school and thus off the shelf and out of mind.
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
Haven't
4. give three words to describe your taste books
Realistic. Intriguing. Atmospheric.
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
Aye
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
Last Saturday; Waterstones
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
He's irrelevant to me so no opinion.
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
Yes from people whose taste it books I know
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
b. most annoying
c. worst
book you've ever read?
In the place of last things by Paul Auster; absolute toss from start to finish.
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
The cult of anonymity; where nations don't dress up or go to glitzy places buty instead be just plain and anonymous. In absence of any market for 'I'm anonymous get me out of here' or OK Anonymous etc the whole celebrity cult dies.
amner
19th Feb 2004, 15:07
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
b. most annoying
c. worst
book you've ever read?
In the place of last things by Paul Auster; absolute toss from start to finish.
It was the most difficult, most annoying and the worst book? Blimey, that's pretty bad.
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idioteque
19th Feb 2004, 15:59
Hmm, I'll leave it at worst and most annoying; the only difficulty was in understanding how it ever got published.
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
I don't care for poetry much. Shakespeare's sonnets are pretty neat, I suppose. I quite like Betjeman's "Summoned by Bells", but am aware it's not really quite what poetry is all about.
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
Turnbull's Mr Never-Lost
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
I'm just starting Durrell's Avignon Quintet, and Robert Littell's The Company
4. give three words to describe your taste books
Omnivorous, Modern, Action
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
Yes, available from Amazon.co.uk.
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
Christmas, Waterstones. I usually shop at Amazon or EBay
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
Sorry to disappoint everyone. I haven't read anything he's written. As a popstar, I rather like him, and Britney S and many others, like Liberty X and Black-eyed Peas. There's quality around, it's just obscured by the garbage. I also happen to be very keen on Mahler's and R Strauss's songs, so omnivorous again.
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
Yes. I'm selective about the recommender.
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
Anything by Umberto Eco. He never seems to get to the point
b. most annoying
Anything by Umberto Eco. Puffed-up, self-indulgent twaddle, for the most part, very elegantly written
c. worst book you've ever read?
Anything by Stephen Donaldson. Sheer tripe, wrapped in a Thesaurus.
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
There is a movement under way, which consists of taking a rich historical period, researching it to death, and weaving an essentially modern fictional cast of characters into a book, making it clear how detailed your research has been and how little you care for the progress of the story. Umberto Ecoism, I call it.
rick green
25th Feb 2004, 8:33
1-Poetry
Yeats Collected Poems
Psuedo-mythical stuff is mostly a bore, but there are many poems whose beauty and music and truth are just uplifting. Also, read it recently.
2-bedtime stories
Tintin, William Steig, Seuss
3-next book
Hmm, maybe Jihad by Ahmed Rashid about the post-soviet central asian republics, from the library
4-3 words
clear (not translucent, but to the point)
clean (I have to wipe down a library book before reading it)
revelatory (I like to finish a book a little more knowledgeable than when I started it)
5-written a book?
nah, not yet anyway
6-last visit to bookshop
um, does the library count?
7-Timberlake
J.T.--my man! "Senorita, hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm!" Get Down!
8-recommendations
I always take 'em with a grain of salt
9-bad books
Why dwell on the disappointments of the past, "Sigh. . ."
10-next big thing
Vegetarianism!
1st Mad Cow, now Bird Flu. . . when will people catch on?
Nobody ever died from eating tofu.
Welcome back, Rick. It's been a while I think?
Good to see so many 'first generation' Palimpsesters making a return.
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rick green
25th Feb 2004, 10:10
Hey,
thanks Amner
I was so embarassed by my previous contributions that I flaked out for a while. I mean, who flubs there own top ten? That, and I couldn't bother finishing the God of Small Things for the book discussion--such tedium! But I thought I'd come back and see what's new with y'all when I got an e-mail update. As a yank, I like reading the threads here & not always knowing what people are talking about. :)
amner
25th Feb 2004, 10:16
As a yank, I like reading the threads here & not always knowing what people are talking about. :)
Cool. The plan's working then :wink:
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wshaw
25th Feb 2004, 13:43
Anyone whose signature is a quote by Captain Haddock is a sophisticate in my book.
Wavid
27th Feb 2004, 20:17
Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
I would have thought so, but I have just witnessed the spectacle of Busted murdering Teenage Kicks on TOTP, and so my loathing is directed elsewhere at present.
rick green
28th Feb 2004, 1:30
At first I thought you were in earnest, wshaw, expressing approbation of my good man Haddock. Upon further consideration, however, I realized that, though he be a man of many noble qualities, no one would go so far as to call him a sophisticate. Therfore, I assured myself that you must have been "taking the piss." (Rather a sophisticated turn of phrase, that.) Determined to set myself apart from the numskulls and nincompoops that I, alas, must be resigned to call my compatriots (no offence my dear m., my dear Jerkass, and any other yanks on these boards) I set myself the arduous task of procuring a more refined signature. I searched the books in my personal library: Table Tennis: Play the Game, Accounting for Dummies, How to Grow Vegetables & Fruits by the Organic Method, but one does not come by the sublime so easily. Settling for sophistry in lieu of sophistication, I scanned Philo (which, incidentally, I bought thinking it was a Greek cookbook.) Life is nothing if not compromise, but the search continues. I will find the perfect signature--or be dashed in the trying. And now, as I find myself veering off into wild sentimentality, let me express my profound gratitude to all you wits: thanks for the laughs, the tips, and all of the crackling good posts. Long live the P'limp!!!
Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
I would have thought so, but I have just witnessed the spectacle of Busted murdering Teenage Kicks on TOTP, and so my loathing is directed elsewhere at present.
Bodice-ripper Timberlake would never stoop to such depths. How Busted can manage to so totally drain the life out of such a peppy tune is a miracle. And they still get to number one.
On behalf of the prosecution can I refer m'lud to the lyrics of their previous hit What I Go To School for, which details the relationship between a male pupil and a 33-year-old teacher:
I fight my way to front of class
To get the best view of her ass
I drop a pencil on the floor
She bends down and shows me more….
QED
rick green
28th Feb 2004, 16:09
With some regret, I confess that when I get the blues I would sooner watch videos than read, even St. Herge. As a kid I was too cozy with the boob tube for my own good, which I fear, is probably typical of my generation & those in tow.
NottyImp
3rd Mar 2004, 12:40
How Busted can manage to so totally drain the life out of such a peppy tune is a miracle. And they still get to number one.
I haven't heard the horror, yet, and it's one of my all time favourite punk-era tunes as well...
epsilon minus
1st May 2004, 16:10
> 7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
Not if it's by his feet after he's been shot in the kneecaps.
Nice image, well done.
Welcome back epsilon minus, it's been 364 days since your last post :shock:
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b3rtymark
3rd May 2004, 7:48
...stolen unashamedly (although with some changes) from the Big Read website:
1. What is your favourite poetry book/collection?
perfume by patrick suskind
2. What were your favourite pre-school bedtime stories (or can you not remember that far back)?
the animal fayre (...is a wonderful sight, it starts in the evening, and lasts all night)
3. What have you decided on for your next book?
the curious incident of the dog in the night time
4. give three words to describe your taste books
must read more
5. Have you ever written a book, even if it has not been published or you never intended it for the eyes of others?
nope
6. When was the last time you went into a bookshop? Was it an independent one or part of a chain?
borders - a week ago
7. Justin Timberlake: is hanging too good for him?
well, he can certainly swing
8. Would you trust book recommendations from anyone else?
a select few friends - not reviewers
9. What, in your opinion, was the:
a. most difficult
ulysses (joyce)
b. most annoying
can't think; but i'd have just stopped reading and picked up something better
c. worst
ditto
book you've ever read?
10. Who or What is the Next Big Thing?
"harry potter and the neverending franchise"
Colyngbourne
3rd May 2004, 9:04
Hi b3rtymark, I hope you'll do a review of The Curious Incident... once you've finished it. I did submit a somewhat paltry review over on Book Reviews but it's the only one. I'm sure John has something cutting to say, if I recall correctly his non-rating of it as a Booker etc contender.
Who is the Animal Fayre book by? I dimly remember something like it.
Just realised, b3rtymark, that it's been about 8 months since your last post (http://palimpsest.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2095&highlight=#2095) (which was, yikes, during the American Gods discussion). That, coupled with epsilon minus's return after almost a full year prompts me to think there's summat peculiar happening to the Palimpular populace.
Anyhoo ... welcome back.
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