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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole.

Best humourous book ever (IMO) keeps you laughin'. Tragicly the writer commited suicide before he ever got it published, so there is nothing more available from him than this monster.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 00:24
Home Recording for Musicians FOR DUMMIES
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 00:51
Arthur C. Clarke Report on Planet Three
George Orwell 1984
Michael Crichton The Great Train Robbery
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 01:13

I'm going to start reading Animal Farm

 

"O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 01:15
Originally posted by aqualung28 aqualung28 wrote:

I'm going to start reading Animal Farm

I'm looking forward to reading that as well.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 04:54

Animal Farm is very good , shows communsim. The leader which If I remember correctly is a pig and he kinda represents Lenin, the other pig/2pigs represent Trotsky and Stalin.

Currently im reading Shakespeares:  Romeo + Juliet

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 05:16
You should try his best work  " Velvet & Violet "  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 05:25

Hehe sounds fun might try it

"O Velvet, Velvet! wherefore art thou Velvet?".

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 05:27
I´m right here
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 07:10
"What wind from yonder bottom breaks....?"

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 15:33

I was going to post saying that I'm currently reading "Rakhmaninov" by Geoffrey Norris - but it seems a little dry compared to the fruity conversation here...

It is a very boring book, actually - but conversely packed with interesting nuggets for any fan of Sergey V.

 

 

I'll get me coat...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 15:41
Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

I'll get me coat...

LOL

That should be the footnote to all your posts!Wink




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 16:09
You say the nicest things...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 16:29

This Fast Show character is more you:

The old Concert Pianist game?
All the touring and perfect pitch
Hardest game in the world         Cert is Archie!
Done it meself see...
30 years man and boy!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 16:31

Just finished Nick Mason's Inside Out

currently reading:

Anthony Sattin's  'The Gates of Africa' about the exploration of west Africa and the search for Timbuktoo in the late 18th century,

and

Andrew Loog Oldham's 'Too Stoned' the second part of his autobiography.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 18:00
Still trying to hang around young girls you old velvet fart
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 14 2005 at 18:49
Originally posted by Reed Lover Reed Lover wrote:

This Fast Show character is more you:

The old Concert Pianist game?
All the touring and perfect pitch
Hardest game in the world         Cert is Archie!
Done it meself see...
30 years man and boy!

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So, which Fast Show character would you be, Reed?

 

...it's got to be Colin Hunt - the Office Joker!

Colin Hunt

Colin considers himself a wit and an entertainer, but in truth the only person who enjoys his endless, stream-of-consciousness inanity is his rather limp colleague, Doreen.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2005 at 04:43

Man, am I pissed at BBC America. They've changed their Thursday night lineup, eliminating The Young Ones completely and getting rid of half of the Monty Python. I still haven't forgiven them for Graham Norton, though, and the appeal of The Office continues to elude me (though I am starting to like the theme music).

They did do a Fawlty Towers marathon last weekend, though, so that's a big point int heir favor.

 

Wait, is this a literature thread? Oh, I just finished Proust's "Cities of the Plain". I'm hoping to polish off the whole of "Rememberance of Things Past" in one mad rush before I start reading anything else. Last time I only got through "The Guermantes Way" before veering off into Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs", so I'm already one book ahead.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2005 at 08:28

I'm currently reading the "What are you reading?" thread on the Progressive Rock Archives forum.

(Apologies if anybody else has used this before - couldn't be bothered to read through the previous 5 pages)

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom


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