What are you reading tonight?
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Re: What are you reading tonight?
You should lay of the drugs Bruce. Take at least a couple of days break.Bruce Rioja wrote:Michael Winner's ace!
Mind you, I think Boris is tops, so what do I know ?
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Love reading Winner's Dinners. He's reviewed quite a few places that I've eaten at and his findings have often matched my own. Only, if something's not quite right, whereas I wuss out and say "Oh, everything's fine thanks" he prefers to make a c*nt of himself insteadbobo the clown wrote:You should lay of the drugs Bruce. Take at least a couple of days break.Bruce Rioja wrote:Michael Winner's ace!
Mind you, I think Boris is tops, so what do I know ?

And Boris is tops. Absolutely

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Corrected for you Bruce...Bruce Rioja wrote:Michael Winner's face is one you'd never tire of hitting

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Boris is ace, but should never, ever, ever be anywhere near being in charge of stuff. If the rumours about Cameron only fancying the one term are true, it isn't that unfeasible he could beat Osbourne for the Tory leadership, given he appeals to the mental backbenchers, and there is nobody in living history prepared to go on record as actually 'liking' Osbourne, which, particularly if Ed is still in charge (he won't be), means it isn't beyond the realms of possibility the joke vote could see us electing him PM. Maybe. Not that I'm hedging my bets. And we laughed at the Californians!
Anyway, Boris has no place in this 'pantheon'. Michael fecking Winner. When Piers Morgan was doing his 'meets' thing, and had him opposite him in the studio, I did start to think of the crowd as 'collateral damage', and start to will on the terrorists!
Sewell, I think, is worse though. Kelvin Mackenzie is B list.
Anyway, Boris has no place in this 'pantheon'. Michael fecking Winner. When Piers Morgan was doing his 'meets' thing, and had him opposite him in the studio, I did start to think of the crowd as 'collateral damage', and start to will on the terrorists!
Sewell, I think, is worse though. Kelvin Mackenzie is B list.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?
Finished the first two of that there Girl Who Played with the Dragon's Hornets' Nest stuff. Good ramble along so far.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
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Have you ever heard Kelvin McKenzie open his gob Pru?
He's a f*cking moron.
He's a f*cking moron.
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Verbal wrote:Finished the first two of that there Girl Who Played with the Dragon's Hornets' Nest stuff. Good ramble along so far.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
Was one of my English Lit. books for 'O' level.
Very good 'atmospheric' book about taboos and the breakdown of society. Set in a time when cold war hysteria was at it's peak. Liked it.
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Lord Kangana wrote:Have you ever heard Kelvin McKenzie open his gob Pru?
He's a f*cking moron.
He's a dick all right, just not around enough to make it onto the A-list of others mentioned.
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Gary the Enfield wrote:Verbal wrote:Finished the first two of that there Girl Who Played with the Dragon's Hornets' Nest stuff. Good ramble along so far.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
Was one of my English Lit. books for 'O' level.
Very good 'atmospheric' book about taboos and the breakdown of society. Set in a time when cold war hysteria was at it's peak. Liked it.


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Gary the Enfield wrote:Verbal wrote:Finished the first two of that there Girl Who Played with the Dragon's Hornets' Nest stuff. Good ramble along so far.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
Was one of my English Lit. books for 'O' level.
Very good 'atmospheric' book about taboos and the breakdown of society. Set in a time when cold war hysteria was at it's peak. Liked it.
I remember it being OK when I did it for GCSE (:D). Just remember being mentally scarred by a double period discussion of the scene in which people have interpreted Piggy as cracking one off. Started hilariously, and was very, very, weird an hour later.
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Its his incessant, unerring pride in having edited overcomplicated bog roll that grinds my gears. Deffo a top ten candidate.Prufrock wrote:Lord Kangana wrote:Have you ever heard Kelvin McKenzie open his gob Pru?
He's a f*cking moron.
He's a dick all right, just not around enough to make it onto the A-list of others mentioned.
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Prufrock wrote:Gary the Enfield wrote:Verbal wrote:Finished the first two of that there Girl Who Played with the Dragon's Hornets' Nest stuff. Good ramble along so far.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
Was one of my English Lit. books for 'O' level.
Very good 'atmospheric' book about taboos and the breakdown of society. Set in a time when cold war hysteria was at it's peak. Liked it.
I remember it being OK when I did it for GCSE (:D). Just remember being mentally scarred by a double period discussion of the scene in which people have interpreted Piggy as cracking one off. Started hilariously, and was very, very, weird an hour later.
Was that the 'release was like an orgasm' bit? I seem to remember a similair mass debate happening too!

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proper exams.Gooner Girl wrote:Gary the Enfield wrote:Was one of my English Lit. books for 'O' level.Verbal wrote:Finished the first two of that there Girl Who Played with the Dragon's Hornets' Nest stuff. Good ramble along so far.
And heading in a completely different direction I've just started on William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. Heard a lot about it, and another which has been on the 'to do' list for ages.
Very good 'atmospheric' book about taboos and the breakdown of society. Set in a time when cold war hysteria was at it's peak. Liked it.Now that shows your age GtE!
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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Just coz you couldn't spell GCSE!
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Prufrock wrote:Just coz you couldn't spell GCSE!
I can. E.A.S.Y.
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About to delve into The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest now.
First two were cracking.
First two were cracking.
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Re: What are you reading tonight?
Been reading some the James Patterson books recently (the Alex Cross ones). Not exactly thought provoking or literary masterpieces, but they're entertaining enough. They sort of play like a film (unless that's just the way I read - visualising everything).
Decent enough if you're after a page turning Crime 'thriller'.
Decent enough if you're after a page turning Crime 'thriller'.
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boltonboris wrote:Been reading some the James Patterson books recently (the Alex Cross ones). Not exactly thought provoking or literary masterpieces, but they're entertaining enough. They sort of play like a film (unless that's just the way I read - visualising everything).
Decent enough if you're after a page turning Crime 'thriller'.
On a similar theme... my daughter bought me a P D James thriller for christmas... Am reading it now (I started really so she could see I was reading it!) - but, actually, it is very good (for what it is - page-turning escapism) - and I might read some more!
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