@Irishk,
Thanks for the recommendation; I’ll be looking for that book as well
@jcboy,
Badjelly the Witch by Spike Milligan is very good, really surreal humour, the sort of thing kids love.
Quote:"Keep your windows shut tonight ," said Binkle-bonk,"because there are some trouser-robbers in the woods, and they might rob Tim's trousers, and in the morning poor Tim would have to go out without his trousers and just his bare bottom, and if he wasn't careful, a chicken might peck it and make him jump up in the air!"
Dr. Seuss is brilliant as well, and my little boy loves all the Tintin and Asterix books.
@izzythepush,
Thanks Izzy, I’ve made my list for Barnes and Noble, on my way there now.
@jcboy,
Check out the Cook Book section while your there.
I finally learned how to use the emoticons
just finished listening to Lev Grosman's The Magician King, didn't quite like it as much as the first book, and it seems likely that the ending was a set up for a sequel (which i'll read no doubt)
almost done reading A Clash of Kings, as well as reading a Miss Read Omnibus Christmas at Fairacre
going to start listening to Forever, the last book in Maggie Stiefvater's trilogy The Wolves of Mercy Falls, and then onto the latest book in Cherie Priest's Clockwork Century books, Ganymede
also reading a few short stories from various publications along the way, and Sherwin Sleeves e-book The Rule Book & Calendar of Kittery Embers
@djjd62,
After reading his books, I started following Grossman's blog. He has a pretty funny entry on Fox picking up the TV rights to
The Magicians...an hour long drama! Plus, the writers worked on the Sarah Connor Chronicles...until it got cancelled lol.
http://levgrossman.com/blog/
@Irishk,
i'll have to check that out
@djjd62,
Are you a self-improver dj?
@Setanta,
Morgan bought it and it was my turn to read tonight, wonderful book! Antonio loved it! Thank you.
is my current transit reading
diary/letter format
slow start, now I'm having trouble putting it down
@MMarciano,
The Wind in the Willows? wonderful wonderful book
I've just starting reading
Michael Cunningham's most recent novel,
Before Nightfall.
Still early days, but I'm sorry to say I'm finding it rather pretentious & laboured compared to his earlier novels (
A Home At the End of the World, etc ..) which I really enjoyed.
Sibling rivalry/NYT book review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/books/review/Winterson-t.html
I'm hoping to become more involved in the plot as I read more.
@msolga,
http://www.margaretvisser.com/writingN.htm
I'm loving this - as I was reading the chapter on corn, I kept thinking that I wished I could talk to ossoB about it RIGHT NOW !
started listening to Stephen King's 11-22-63: A Novel, interesting so far, a time travel story, the protagonist is testing how he affects time, before attempting to prevent Kennedy's assassination, he's in Derry, Maine, 1958, just after the events portrayed in It, and has an interaction with two of the characters from that story
also reading some sci-fi short story collections
@spendius,
i'm more of a self defeater
Right now, I'm reading a collection of short stories by Jeffrey Archer. He's English and mostly does mysteries, but unlike most of the British writers of the genre, he know how to move the story along. This one is CAT O'NINE TALES, and as is usual, when an accomplished writer does short stories they are very well done. These seem to have the flavor of the best of the O. Henry stories, and the edition I have has the cutest illustrations you ever hope to see.
@roger,
He's also a crook and a plagiarist.
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
He's also a crook and a plagiarist.
Well, yes, but apart from stuff like that......
Actually, I have never read a word he wrote.
@dlowan,
This is a joke article from this month's Viz magazine. I've just included the headline and the bit attributed to Archer.
Quote:What would the Celebrity Cuntbubbles do if they were....
BLUE FOR A DAY?
Imagine waking up in the morning and discovering you have of went blue in the night. We asked the celebrites what they would do if it was them who had went blue.
Jeffrey Archer, lying cuntbubble
"To a storyteller like me,the idea of waking up having changed colour is a fascinating one. I would immediately sit down and write a short story about suddenly becoming blue. That is, if I can find one that somebody else has written that I can copy out word for word, like the thieving, blue-faced, spotty-backed whore banging little **** that I am."
The terrible prose in the intropduction is deliberate, a parody of the awful tabloid newspapers that print such ridiculous stories.
