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Post by Alex on Dec 31, 2006 19:08:11 GMT
Ours are fab! The new one in Brighton opened a couple of years ago, lovely building MOst jealous of it indeed. Our building should be demolished.
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Post by SanSiroBird on Jan 9, 2007 13:50:32 GMT
I'm reading the La Bohème booklet.
Ready for the Opera tonight! Well, just in DVD...
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Post by ludicrouslouisa on Jan 13, 2007 7:01:03 GMT
I was on holiday so I read a lot of unrealistic crime novels, including Echo Park (to be honest I only read it because of the title, but it was pretty good! ) and Bridget Jones' diary, which was quite bad. One thing I noticed about crime novels is that the people in them can always describe others perfectly. IE "What did the suspect look like?" "Well, he was obviously a smoker as he kept searching in his pockets for chewing gum. Caucasian, six-three, long black hair and small moustache, spoke with a South African accent. He was wearing a cheap woolen suit with a broadcloth shirt - speckled with tissue lint. He wore bracelets made of shells - obviously not customs declared. I'd say he was in the drug trade - he had some white powder on his left cuff." Who the hell remembers all of that? For once in a crime novel I want to hear "What did the suspect look like?" "Male...ahh...short and ugly. He had white hair, reddish face. A weird strangled voice." "Anything else? Race? Carrying anything? Clothing?" "I'm not a bloody criminal mastermind!" And another crime novel scruple. So many people have green eyes. NO one has green eyes. No one in a crime novel has brown eyes but yet so many people in real life do! (in my mind the eye colours go like this; hazel, brown, blue, grey, black and sludge - commonly known as green.) Well. Back onto books. I'm reading "the three evangelists," a quirky sort of book about a missing opera singer, a small beech tree and three historians in paris.
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Post by tangerine on Jan 13, 2007 7:14:43 GMT
sounds.....exctiing
I'm reading Richard Bransons autibiogrpahy. Its an amazing read, about 500 odd pages but its really worth it
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Post by Sophie on Jan 14, 2007 12:59:07 GMT
Haha Louisa I know what you mean..
But Bridget Jones' Diary is class....and NOT a crime novel lol
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Post by tangerine on Jan 14, 2007 15:26:06 GMT
I got very bored of that for some reason. I'm tempted to read all my Alex Rider books for a third time
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Post by ludicrouslouisa on Jan 15, 2007 0:06:43 GMT
^lol. Alex rider is GOOD, but targeted at boys. Who the hell cares if his pants were Gap and whether the gun was an Uzi or a Glock? I KNOW Bridget Jones isn't crime. I read it as a break from crime. My opera singer book is good
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Post by kevin on Jan 15, 2007 0:21:54 GMT
^lol. Alex rider is GOOD, but targeted at boys. Who the hell cares if his pants were Gap and whether the gun was an Uzi or a Glock? It's called attention to detail...
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Post by ludicrouslouisa on Jan 15, 2007 0:40:52 GMT
^trust me. I can tell....a woman would say "He had a blackish gun, as long as his arm. The barrel was dented, and dusted with powder..." Instead, they have "He was carrying an Uzi volume 3, with seven megalitre cartriges. The guns had been used to great effect in the soviet crisis of 91 and had been decomissioned. They had a slight fault with the sight." What the hell does an uzi volume 3 look like? I just imagine a giant lump of metal. Now, every single lump of metal looks the same in an alex rider book. SO I just imagine Alex going around wearing khaki something wielding some chewing gum and a lump of metal called a Glock.
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Post by kevin on Jan 15, 2007 0:46:57 GMT
I believe you if you can tell, but I'm just saying that the author is giving attention to detail Besides, saying that it's aimed at boys is too much of a generalisation... I barely know what you were on about there
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Post by ludicrouslouisa on Jan 15, 2007 0:56:39 GMT
That's because I made it all up. Seven MEGALITRE cartriges? Anyway, now you know how I feel. Different authors DO have different ways of describing one. There's a ripper description from Nick Hornby that goes something like this: "I feel uncomfortable and stupid, like when you have to ask for a Big Heap Buffalo Billburger when all you wanted was a quarter-pounder, or a slice of Just Like Mum Used To Make, when all you want is a piece of apple pie." And Douglas Adams has ones a bit like this: "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the time the poeple living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of thse were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. And so, the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most of them were miserable; even the ones with digital watches." Pure genius!
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Post by tangerine on Jan 15, 2007 1:47:34 GMT
I believe you if you can tell, but I'm just saying that the author is giving attention to detail Besides, saying that it's aimed at boys is too much of a generalisation... I barely know what you were on about there well i don't care if tis aimed at 12/14 year old boys i still love them so much. Think i always will Took my younger cousin to see Stormbreaker and he loved it, i think i got him into the books too.
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Post by Chloe on Jan 15, 2007 8:36:29 GMT
douglas adams GREAT writer
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Post by ludicrouslouisa on Jan 15, 2007 8:42:06 GMT
One of the very best, although I couldn't make head nor tail of Dirk Gently and the more I read it the more my poor cranial capacity exploded. My brother got it because he's got a better handle on abstract philosophical concepts than I do.
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Post by Chloe on Jan 15, 2007 8:43:59 GMT
yeah i never really got into the dirk stuff. but i love Hitchhikers.
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Post by ludicrouslouisa on Jan 15, 2007 9:14:29 GMT
The meaning of liff is good, and The Salmon of Doubt is a very interesting read. Starship Titanic is a cracking computer game, too. Unfortunately we never solved it as the CDs got scratched and went missing. Some day I'll have to get it again.
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Post by Clare on Jan 15, 2007 9:25:05 GMT
Amongst others, I'm reading 365 ways to change the world by Michael Norton - its full of big and little things you can do to make a difference to others.
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Post by bigospedros on Jan 15, 2007 9:33:25 GMT
I've just started to read the QI book ... the bit about how ancient folk used to kill polar bear mothers to capture the babies made me sad i.e. they'd kill the mum, and then skin it and then lay it out on the ground and when the babies came over to lie on it (as it stilled smelled of their mum) they'd get captured mean!!!
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Post by Stacey on Jan 15, 2007 10:13:23 GMT
That's very mean. I need to get round to reading that book soon.
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Post by Claire on Jan 15, 2007 12:52:53 GMT
I finally finished reading my James Patterson book last night at long last. Now I've got to decide which book to start reading now......
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