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hamburger
 
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Reply Sat 23 Jun, 2007 07:13 pm
i have about 30 of the GILES ANNUALS (GILES was probably the most famous cartoonist in great britain - he passed away in 1995) .
christmas wasn't christmas without the GILES ANNUAL .
giles was a superb commentator on the daily life of all britons - from nurses and royalty to streetsweepers .
my brother and i would sit there all christmas eve and just laugh our heads off at his wonderful cartoons .
the annuals had been sitting in the rec-room for some time and i was ready to tosss them , but mrs h suggested i keep them .
the last several days i've brought sone of them up to re-read "the history of britain" - and what fun it is to see what the british wrestled with 30 and 40 years ago - strikes , power shortage , water shortage , flooding ... and in a way not much has changed - really quite astonishing !
THANK YOU , GILES , FOR MAKING ME LAUGH - AGAIN !
hbg

GRANDMA - THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE GILES FAMILY OF CHARACTERS

http://giles.clickhere2.net/images/grandma.gif


CHALKIE - JUNIOR'S HEADMASTER

http://giles.clickhere2.net/images/chalkie.gif

i hope you'll visit with GILES and have a laugh !
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 24 Jun, 2007 01:34 am
McTag wrote:
"Dialogues with the Dead" by Reginald Hill. (One of the Dalziel and Pascoe crime fiction series)

I don't usually read whodunnits but this one was recommended by a friend and I must say I'm enjoying it.


"Dialogues of the Dead", I think it is actually. I've left it upstairs.

Hello!
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McTag
 
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Reply Sun 24 Jun, 2007 01:36 am
hamburger wrote:
i have about 30 of the GILES ANNUALS (GILES was probably the most famous cartoonist in great britain - he passed away in 1995) .
christmas wasn't christmas without the GILES ANNUAL .
giles was a superb commentator on the daily life of all britons - from nurses and royalty to streetsweepers .
my brother and i would sit there all christmas eve and just laugh our heads off at his wonderful cartoons .
the annuals had been sitting in the rec-room for some time and i was ready to tosss them , but mrs h suggested i keep them .
the last several days i've brought sone of them up to re-read "the history of britain" - and what fun it is to see what the british wrestled with 30 and 40 years ago - strikes , power shortage , water shortage , flooding ... and in a way not much has changed - really quite astonishing !
THANK YOU , GILES , FOR MAKING ME LAUGH - AGAIN !
hbg

GRANDMA - THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE GILES FAMILY OF CHARACTERS

http://giles.clickhere2.net/images/grandma.gif


CHALKIE - JUNIOR'S HEADMASTER

http://giles.clickhere2.net/images/chalkie.gif

i hope you'll visit with GILES and have a laugh !


We used to enjoy seeing the Giles cartoon every week in the Sunday Express when I was a boy.
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BumbleBeeBoogie
 
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Reply Sun 24 Jun, 2007 09:25 am
The Secret History of the American Empire
I've ordered this book after watching the presentation on C-SPAN by author John Perkins. ---BBB
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Wilso
 
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Reply Mon 25 Jun, 2007 09:02 am
I'm hoping to be reading 'Klan-destine Relationships' soon. If the damn thing ever arrives.
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plainoldme
 
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Reply Mon 25 Jun, 2007 02:15 pm
Haven't been here in six weeks.

Helen of Troy by Bettany Hughes. Fascinating and much better than her PBS show on the same.
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aidan
 
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Reply Mon 25 Jun, 2007 02:31 pm
POM- I was just going to go on that missing a2k thread and ask about you. I remember your last posts were on that thread where you were a little depressed about turning sixty, and I was worried about you. I'm glad you're alright.

I'm reading a short story collection Telling Tales- it's an anthology, the proceeds of which go to AIDS research and treatment. Their are stories by Arthur Miller, Salmon Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, etc.- and the stories themselves have little or nothing to do about AIDS. It's a pretty good and eclectic collection.
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Miller
 
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Reply Mon 25 Jun, 2007 03:14 pm
I just started "MayFlower" and am trying to read a few pages each day.
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littlek
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jun, 2007 08:54 pm
I am trying to sneak in Orpheus Lost before starting the final project for my current course. It's fabulous so far!

MsO, all those Cambridge locations are for real. The only one I haven't been to is the Marakesh Cafe. Maybe the author renamed a different middle eastern cafe....? Even the Mosque is right there where she says it is!
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msolga
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 12:08 am
littlek wrote:
I am trying to sneak in Orpheus Lost before starting the final project for my current course. It's fabulous so far!

MsO, all those Cambridge locations are for real. The only one I haven't been to is the Marakesh Cafe. Maybe the author renamed a different middle eastern cafe....? Even the Mosque is right there where she says it is!


Oh I'm pleased you like it, k. Like I said, I wasn't too confident about your taste in novels, but I absolutely loved it!

You know, the Boston location didn't register with me (in terms of you) till I'd actually sent the book. Then I thought: Boston & Oz (Daintree forest). Perfect! Very Happy

Maybe she invented the Marakesh Cafe? Rather than create a stigma or controversy about an existing place?

What do you think of Cobb Slaughter, k? (Great name, hey?) What a sinister character!
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:11 pm
My landlady (I told her of the book) and I were concerned about the Mosque on Prospect Street more than any restaurant.

Cobb is creepy. That whole switch flow thing (brrr).
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:21 pm
I <gasped> when hamburger told me he'd nearly thrown out the wonderful collection of Giles annuals. I usually pull one or two out to browse through when I visit the hamburgers.

They're great reads/re-reads - and there are also wonderful memories of hamburger and his brother laughing and laughing and laughing on Christmas Eve.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 27 Jun, 2007 06:24 pm
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani. It is filling in the mysteries of the movie for me, while being fascinating in itself.
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 28 Jun, 2007 02:45 am
There was a cartoon in the papers yesterday which seemed to me to exactly copy the Giles style.

Now, I wonder if I can link to it.....?

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/img/cartoons/mac/2007/06/270607.jpg
"Gentlemen. Her Majesty doesn't want to be disturbed right now......but there is a message."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/news/maccartoon.html?in_page_id=1831&in_date=270607
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kickycan
 
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Reply Thu 28 Jun, 2007 09:23 am
I just started "A Moveable Feast" by Hemingway, after finishing "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller. I loved Catch-22, and I am already getting a warm fuzzy feeling from the first several pages of A Moveable Feast.

Lucky me.
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littlek
 
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Reply Fri 29 Jun, 2007 09:24 pm
Finished Orpheus just now. Wow. (Screech says: nmjjjjjjjjjjjm nnnnn)
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littlek
 
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Reply Fri 29 Jun, 2007 09:26 pm
Next up are two pratchett novels: Soul Music and The Thief of Time
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 30 Jun, 2007 07:09 pm
I just finished Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry.

When I started laughing on the first page, I knew this was going to be one of the McMurtry's that would make me happy. The last two chapters ... nnnh <shrug> ... but the rest of the book - loved it!
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msolga
 
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Reply Sat 30 Jun, 2007 09:18 pm
littlek wrote:
(Screech says: nmjjjjjjjjjjjm nnnnn)


Yes? Really? Why? Very Happy
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littlek
 
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Reply Sat 30 Jun, 2007 09:30 pm
Jeez, who knows with that cat!

I am having a slight disturbance in my ability to tell fact from fiction. That book was so realistic that I keep having to separate, in my head, the book details from real life details.

I looked up Marrakesh Cafe. There wasn't a MC in Cambridge. There is an Cafe Algiers, but it's in the wrong location and doesn't have belly dancing. The Middle East Club fits the bill. After 9/11 there was a significant police presence parked in front of that club. Maybe the author couldn't put their name in legally. Maybe she just made up the cafe as pure piece of fiction (but given her eye for detail, I doubt it).
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