I've never read, watched, or heard..

[General Mannerheim]

I saw about 2 half programmes of 'Flight of the Conchords', which was so dire I've avoided it since.

seems to be a love it or hate it show - me, i fooking love it!!!

For me - the finest television since the League of Gentlemen. Absolutely outstanding stuff, I can't wait for the third series!

When Jermaine meets Keifa, and turns up to a meeting with Murray & Bret wearing a Aussie bush ranger Steve Irwin stylee khaki shorts suit!!...

The first series was better IMO. Glad they're not stretching it to a third as it would probably get too diluted. Rhys Darby makes the programme - I'd be interested to see what his stand up is like.

bit of a let down im afraid!

[Bruce Rioja]

I saw about 2 half programmes of 'Flight of the Conchords', which was so dire I've avoided it since.

seems to be a love it or hate it show - me, i fooking love it!!!

For me - the finest television since the League of Gentlemen. Absolutely outstanding stuff, I can't wait for the third series!

Sorry Bruce, but I'd call off the wait...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a ... hords.html

Nah, that's just the sort of thing that they would say, I hope!

[Lord Kangana]

No Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings for me.
Gave up on 24 & the more believable but just as dull -The Wire

Never read Lolita or Tess of the Durbevilles but always meant to. Gave up on Catch 22.

Ah yes, Catch-22. Its genius, apparently.

[Verbal]

No Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings for me.
Gave up on 24 & the more believable but just as dull -The Wire

Never read Lolita or Tess of the Durbevilles but always meant to. Gave up on Catch 22.

Ah yes, Catch-22. Its genius, apparently.

It is.

In my humble opinion, obviously

[thebish]

No Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings for me.
Gave up on 24 & the more believable but just as dull -The Wire

Never read Lolita or Tess of the Durbevilles but always meant to. Gave up on Catch 22.

Ah yes, Catch-22. Its genius, apparently.

back in the day when I was a student and read lots of trendy books - Dostoyevsky, Orwell etc al.

I enjoyed nearly all of them - but tried Catch 22 four or five times - but never got past the second chapter - mind-numbingly tedious

[Lord Kangana]

Have you evre read Fahrenheit 451 bish?

[William the White]

Catch 22 is up there in any list of brilliant sustained satire. Less strained and a lot funnier than most.
Yossarian is a brilliant creation, as is the chaplain and Major Major.

The mockery of military idiocy is deeply satisfying and and wonderfully varied.

Haven't read for quite a while - but I must have read it 5 or 6 times since coming across it in student days.

It's not that often a literary work's title enters the vocabulary... And Heller never wrote another book worth reading, shame...

you guys find it unreadable?

[Lord Kangana]

Its possible that we all don't like the same things William. I watched the film and found it equally tedious. I know people who love it, though.

[William the White]

Its possible that we all don't like the same things William. I watched the film and found it equally tedious. I know people who love it, though.

Film was worse than dogshit... film is such a literal medium (to be truthful most drama is) and it's really difficult to sustain satire over that length. Catch 22 is laugh out loud funny as a book, but solemn and worthy as a film. TV does it better, often.

All IMO, LK, just expressing my surprise that the novel defeated a number of people on here.

[thebish]

Have you evre read Fahrenheit 451 bish?

no!

[thebish]

Catch 22 is up there in any list of brilliant sustained satire. Less strained and a lot funnier than most.
Yossarian is a brilliant creation, as is the chaplain and Major Major.

The mockery of military idiocy is deeply satisfying and and wonderfully varied.

Haven't read for quite a while - but I must have read it 5 or 6 times since coming across it in student days.

It's not that often a literary work's title enters the vocabulary... And Heller never wrote another book worth reading, shame...

you guys find it unreadable?

I may try again now that maturity is on the horizon - I will not be beaten....

[Dujon]

Leave it there, thebish. Tack around it, run like hell the other way, but never, ever approach it. So many souls I have seen destroyed by such foolhardiness, so many free spirits have I seen melt like a morning mist - I have long mourned for their passing. Some tell me it's inevitable whilst others say that it's more of a siren song. I say it's avoidable and probably not even attainable and is most certainly not desirable.

Avert your eyes, dear fellow, and follow in my light and sprightly footsteps when we will then together beat this ogre called Wisdom in its many guises, duck and weave from the pontifications of the self appointed bearers of such ill conceived ideology. We will win.

Maturity, Age, and Wisdom, the triumvirate of senility, bias, narrow-mindedness and madness. Is an over ripe banana any of these? Of course not, it's a soggy mess of past memories. Stay firm.