What are you reading tonight?

[Lofthouse Lower]

All are shite when compared to the real genius behind Phoenix Nights

[Lord Kangana]

I thought the lad who played Ray Von shared a bit ofthe writing aswell?

[Prufrock]

I thought the lad who played Ray Von shared a bit ofthe writing aswell?

Aye, Neil Fitmaurice, otherwise known as Jeff from Peep Show. Still the funniest thing he has been in, by far, was this, starring alongside Ian McCulloch from Echo and the Bunnymen.

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[hisroyalgingerness]

I got Kitson to rant once at a gig, about Kay, after heckling with a "Spenther for hire"

[Lofthouse Lower]

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Trains and Buttered Toast; Selected Radio Talks by John Betjeman. It was a Christmas present from my wife, not the sort of book that I would normally buy. I've only just got round to reading it.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!

What a beautiful writer Betjeman was. I will read more of his work.

Much of what I've read of Betjeman is stunning but with this quality whereby you've seen for yourself what it is that he's writing about but haven't thought to question it. Much like the songwriting of Ray Davies.

I'm going to order that book up missen now, Zulu. Cheers!

Let me know what you think. I agree with the Ray Davies comment too!

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm not a huge fan of Spikey, but putting him in the same category as Paddy fooking McGuinness is a bit harsh!

Sin um both live. Every bit as shite as one and other.

Naah... spikey is funny...

I can only go off of my own experience, William, and that is that the guy is embarrassingly unfunny.

[TANGODANCER]

Just finished John Grisham's Theodore Boone . Bit of an odd ending but could well be "Atticus Finch-the early years.

[P.O.S.]

I got Kitson to rant once at a gig, about Kay, after heckling with a "Spenther for hire"

Top! what was the general gist?

[Bruce Rioja]

I got Kitson to rant once at a gig, about Kay, after heckling with a "Spenther for hire"

Bean-spiilage, man. What did he say about him?

[hisroyalgingerness]

Not much juice - mainly that Phoenix had ruined his chance to win the Perrier award. He was quite sore about it.

[Hoboh]

A good read
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[keveh]

Not much juice - mainly that Phoenix had ruined his chance to win the Perrier award. He was quite sore about it.

Was that at Preston?

I went to one his gigs there where he said Kay was overly controlling, he wouldn't have anything other than what was written in the script.

[Prufrock]

A Farewell to Arms. First Hemingway. About halfway through. Very readable for no discernible reason.

[hisroyalgingerness]

Not much juice - mainly that Phoenix had ruined his chance to win the Perrier award. He was quite sore about it.

Was that at Preston?

I went to one his gigs there where he said Kay was overly controlling, he wouldn't have anything other than what was written in the script.

It rings bells that, yeah was at Preston. I was a bit inebriated (hence the heckling).

Classic one where Batman heckled Justin Moorhouse, well I say heckled he was attempting to be one half of a double act with him by finishing off his lines and Young Kenny asked the hall who wanted to nice person him, to which there was a resounding "yes".

[TANGODANCER]

A Farewell to Arms. First Hemingway. About halfway through. Very readable for no discernible reason.

The Sun Also Rises and Dangerous Summer (both based around the bullfight theme) are well worth a read.

[Lord Kangana]

For Whom The Bell Tolls.


Still haven't read it, been sat on my shelf for years.

[TANGODANCER]

For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Still haven't read it, been sat on my shelf for years.

Yes, another decent book. Hemingway was a strange, wildly extrovert character, but he could write. Had his ashes scattered on a friend's bull ranch when he died.

[William the White]

For Whom The Bell Tolls.


Still haven't read it, been sat on my shelf for years.

Used to love that book, when I was studying Spanish history.

Much of it is based on historical truth, thinly disguised.

[Dujon]

For Whom the Bell Tolls is the only Hemingway book residing on my shelves. As far as I can recall it's the only book of his that I have read. Putting aside the circumstances of the times in which the plot was set I found it rather 'dark' and even, to a point at least, unsettling. I think I've mentioned in this thread before that I had the impression that the author was obsessed with death; perhaps it was my gloomy mood at the time of reading - I don't know.