I've never read, watched, or heard..
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Nor meGeneral Mannerheim wrote:watched Lost for a season and a half, totally lost interest. Not seen any of 24 or prison break though.
For a geezer who likes his comedies, ive never watched Mighty Boosh or Peep Show!
Watched a few episodes of Fawlty Towers
I've currently got about the first 20 Star Trek episodes on my Skybox - me christmas treat
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Re: I've never read, watched, or heard..
Heathen!Prufrock wrote:The books, the films, the albums everybody raves about, that you have never read watched or heard, for whatever reason....
Everybody has a list, maybe they never caught your imagination, maybe you've never got round to it. I read an article a while ago talking about how many people claimed to have read books and seen films they hadn't because they were viewed as 'classics'. The most commonly lied about is 1984 apparently.
I've never seen the Shawshank Redemption. I am now about to watch for the first time Dead Poet's Society. I had until recently never read (or seen, which I still haven't) Hamlet.
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Me too, although I do find the bloke from Mighty Boosh (Noel Fielding?) to be piss funny on Buzzcocks.General Mannerheim wrote: For a geezer who likes his comedies, ive never watched Mighty Boosh or Peep Show!
Also, I've never seen Gavin & Stacey.
Tried my best with Bo Selecta but gave up.
Can't stand Little Britain as all it seems to be about is finding different ways to deliver exactly the same punchlines.
And as an aside, I haven't watched Dr Who since Tom Baker was in it, and won't.
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Have never seen:
The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV (Parts one and two), Henry VIII, Henry VI (parts one, teo and three), King John... (Looks like i have an aversion to the name Henry - it's just that the history plays I attend only dutifully, the others eagerly)...
But looking forward enormously to midsummer night's dream at the octagon in February/march - will be the fifth production of this play I've seen. It's great to see comedy that is over four hundred years old still causing laughter. Fantastic.
The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV (Parts one and two), Henry VIII, Henry VI (parts one, teo and three), King John... (Looks like i have an aversion to the name Henry - it's just that the history plays I attend only dutifully, the others eagerly)...
But looking forward enormously to midsummer night's dream at the octagon in February/march - will be the fifth production of this play I've seen. It's great to see comedy that is over four hundred years old still causing laughter. Fantastic.
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Blimey, there are so many books that I probably should have read that it'd take a library to stock and catalogue. Most of Shakespeare and of the Brontes and Jane Austen ... ad infinitum.
I wonder whether today, if I sat down and read The Bard for the fun of it (rather than as required reading), I'd get more out of his works. Maybe I was too dumb or just disinterested but when Olde Bill was indeed a required reading and my tutors bombarded me with multiple explanations of every word and phrase in each play, I just gave up. Given his incredible volume of plays and an equally staggering amount of verse I've often wondered how many geese were slaughtered to provide the necessary quills. I have also wondered how he managed to produce so much writing with so 'deep and meaningful' levels of meaning (if today's scholars are correct). I'm also somewhat embarrassed to say that I have not a word of William's output in my mini-book repository.
On second thought I might be wrong - I think that somewhere hidden in a cardboard box hidden beneath a pile of rubbish in my garage there is a copy each of Julius Caesar and of Henry V. If they are there then I suspect that they have juvenile margin notes along the lines of 'What's he on about' and 'Ey?' or perhaps 'What a load of codswallop'.
Looking to the good old U.S. of A., perhaps I should have read Hemmingway (or is that Hemingway?) and the novel 'Catcher in the Rye', the author of which escapes me at the moment.
I have read a few Russian publications (translated) but find them terribly tedious. Anna Karenina (fiction) for one and the Gulag Archipelago (non-fiction) are the ones that come to mind. I had both on my shelves at one time but they've both been chucked out. Yes, there are other Russian authors whose work I have read but they simply reinforced the feeling that the country produces writers who are dark and gloomy, sad and sadder, and describe a locale in which the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way away.
Films I find I cannot comment upon. I have seen so few of them over the last few decades. Maybe I think that I'm getting older than I used to be or really am? Mind you I have rejected the opportunity to watch certain films and regretted it later. One of those was 'Dances With Wolves.
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I wonder whether today, if I sat down and read The Bard for the fun of it (rather than as required reading), I'd get more out of his works. Maybe I was too dumb or just disinterested but when Olde Bill was indeed a required reading and my tutors bombarded me with multiple explanations of every word and phrase in each play, I just gave up. Given his incredible volume of plays and an equally staggering amount of verse I've often wondered how many geese were slaughtered to provide the necessary quills. I have also wondered how he managed to produce so much writing with so 'deep and meaningful' levels of meaning (if today's scholars are correct). I'm also somewhat embarrassed to say that I have not a word of William's output in my mini-book repository.
On second thought I might be wrong - I think that somewhere hidden in a cardboard box hidden beneath a pile of rubbish in my garage there is a copy each of Julius Caesar and of Henry V. If they are there then I suspect that they have juvenile margin notes along the lines of 'What's he on about' and 'Ey?' or perhaps 'What a load of codswallop'.
Looking to the good old U.S. of A., perhaps I should have read Hemmingway (or is that Hemingway?) and the novel 'Catcher in the Rye', the author of which escapes me at the moment.
I have read a few Russian publications (translated) but find them terribly tedious. Anna Karenina (fiction) for one and the Gulag Archipelago (non-fiction) are the ones that come to mind. I had both on my shelves at one time but they've both been chucked out. Yes, there are other Russian authors whose work I have read but they simply reinforced the feeling that the country produces writers who are dark and gloomy, sad and sadder, and describe a locale in which the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way away.
Films I find I cannot comment upon. I have seen so few of them over the last few decades. Maybe I think that I'm getting older than I used to be or really am? Mind you I have rejected the opportunity to watch certain films and regretted it later. One of those was 'Dances With Wolves.
OK, who is up for a 'down and dirty' documentary on Bolton le Moores?
Interesting Dujon. I too have never read 'Catcher in the Rye', or the one that for some reason is linked to that in my head, 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. In fact thinking of our GCSE possible options, I've only read the one we did, 'Lord of the Flies', having not read the two mentioned above, nor 'Of Mice and Men'.
As for the Bard, it's difficult to say. He undoubtedly has a reputation amongst fourteen year olds as 'oh no not Shakespeare'. I'm not quite sure why, or how to get around this. I decided at fourteen also that I didn't like him, and preferred the much more rebellious, cool image Marlowe has. Now, well Dr F and the first Tamberlaine are still two of my favourite plays, but Willy produced so much that is excellent. I've never quite 'got' his comedies, but Macbeth, Romeo and J are excellent (I assume most would place Hamlet in here, but as said, never seen it) and I remember thinking at fourteen that his sonnets were 'allright for poetry' (which at that point was still very much 'gay').
Films: I have a list on my computer I wrote the other day which sort of inspired this thread, one out and out classic I have never seen, 'Saving Private Ryan'. Add to this cult classics such as 'Network', 'La Haine', 'Léon', and 'Fargo', and a couple more on my list, 'The Departed', 'United 93', 'Memento', 'The Conversation', and 'Betty Blue'.
As for the Bard, it's difficult to say. He undoubtedly has a reputation amongst fourteen year olds as 'oh no not Shakespeare'. I'm not quite sure why, or how to get around this. I decided at fourteen also that I didn't like him, and preferred the much more rebellious, cool image Marlowe has. Now, well Dr F and the first Tamberlaine are still two of my favourite plays, but Willy produced so much that is excellent. I've never quite 'got' his comedies, but Macbeth, Romeo and J are excellent (I assume most would place Hamlet in here, but as said, never seen it) and I remember thinking at fourteen that his sonnets were 'allright for poetry' (which at that point was still very much 'gay').
Films: I have a list on my computer I wrote the other day which sort of inspired this thread, one out and out classic I have never seen, 'Saving Private Ryan'. Add to this cult classics such as 'Network', 'La Haine', 'Léon', and 'Fargo', and a couple more on my list, 'The Departed', 'United 93', 'Memento', 'The Conversation', and 'Betty Blue'.
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If he reads the first couple of pages, he'll get the gist, and then at least he can say he tried. But yeah, dull, unfinishable.superjohnmcginlay wrote:Catcher In The Rye is bloody dull. Don't bother.
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Never watched one frame of '24', nor 'Twin Peaks', nor 'The Wire', nor 'Band of Brothers'. I'd add 'Prison Break' as mentioned above, but frankly haven't even heard of it.
Watched my son watch 'Lost' (if you have kids you'll appreciate the difference) but though I therefore saw some of it I rapidly lost interest & was amazed when I realised it was still on some centuries late. Saw a few Soprano's before running for cover.
Managed not to watch a second of Big Brother since series 2, that includes Celebrity versions too, until this year because I know the winners sister very well. It hadn't improved,meantime !!
I saw about 2 half programmes of 'Flight of the Conchords', which was so dire I've avoided it since. Not watched 'Mighty Boosh', despite as said above, loving Noel Fielding on Buzzcocks.
Other than when forced to (O-Levels, A-Levels) I've not read, nor watched anything by Jane Austen or the Bronte's and I'd rather rip my eyes out than watch the vast majority of Shakespeare (sorry WtW). His comedies, especially. Rowan Atkinson's teacher sketch where he scorned the whole genre as being "the joke of two people being confused for each other ... twice" about sums them up for me. About as funny as that master of Comedy, Chekov and the aforementioned Ms Austen.
Bo Selecta, I just cannot see anything of merit. Frank Sidebotton !!!! wtf ???
Most of Sacha Baron Cohen's portfolio is likewise.
I'm beginning to wonder if I've ever actually seen anything !!
Watched my son watch 'Lost' (if you have kids you'll appreciate the difference) but though I therefore saw some of it I rapidly lost interest & was amazed when I realised it was still on some centuries late. Saw a few Soprano's before running for cover.
Managed not to watch a second of Big Brother since series 2, that includes Celebrity versions too, until this year because I know the winners sister very well. It hadn't improved,meantime !!
I saw about 2 half programmes of 'Flight of the Conchords', which was so dire I've avoided it since. Not watched 'Mighty Boosh', despite as said above, loving Noel Fielding on Buzzcocks.
Other than when forced to (O-Levels, A-Levels) I've not read, nor watched anything by Jane Austen or the Bronte's and I'd rather rip my eyes out than watch the vast majority of Shakespeare (sorry WtW). His comedies, especially. Rowan Atkinson's teacher sketch where he scorned the whole genre as being "the joke of two people being confused for each other ... twice" about sums them up for me. About as funny as that master of Comedy, Chekov and the aforementioned Ms Austen.
Bo Selecta, I just cannot see anything of merit. Frank Sidebotton !!!! wtf ???
Most of Sacha Baron Cohen's portfolio is likewise.
I'm beginning to wonder if I've ever actually seen anything !!
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