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Post by Avril on Nov 23, 2010 21:59:35 GMT -5
I'm re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Just brilliant writing.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 2, 2010 17:57:31 GMT -5
THE STRAIN by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan. An exceptionally written Vampire novel, wid strong Crichton-like scientifical overtones. Also Jewish vampire killur! Jews must especially hate vampires for some reason. Hurmmmmm ...
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Post by Avril on Dec 2, 2010 21:20:21 GMT -5
Well, I doubt that most vamps are kosher....
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Post by Avril on Dec 2, 2010 21:21:32 GMT -5
Just finished Idoru by William Gibson. Awesome.
Maybe Stephen Fry next?
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 2, 2010 22:25:27 GMT -5
Stephen Fry is quite a bit jollier in the flesh than on paper, Im thinking. But since I found out that Hitchy the Cancerous Snitchy is his friend, I haf liked him a little less. Peevish Christmus PLite
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Post by Avril on Dec 3, 2010 1:33:51 GMT -5
Is not everyman Fry's friend? ;D
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 3, 2010 3:45:42 GMT -5
Well, they do say atheists coo together like pigeons on Trafalgar.
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Post by Avril on Dec 3, 2010 6:29:40 GMT -5
You know, I think you're right about Fry being funnier in person. I fell asleep half way through the first chapter of Moab is my Washpot.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 3, 2010 10:44:31 GMT -5
Well, how interesting can one English childhood be? Unless its my Pwashpot of course.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Feb 15, 2011 15:29:27 GMT -5
Stephen had too much to drink before the BAFTAS. I bet most people didnt notice. Heh. Reading a stupendous book, THE BOOK OF HUMAN SKIN by Michelle Lovric. I must say the villeins in this book are out of this world! Theres an evool feller named Minguillo Fasan who is 10x worse than Hannible Lecter, and a crazy Peruvian nun who is sech a religious fanatic that Avrilly could only gape at her behaviour.
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Post by Avril on Feb 16, 2011 0:21:25 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to that experience. What me, gape?
Actually I did today, briefly, at a particularly simplistic and unsubstantiated assumption on the part of one of my studes.
;D
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Post by Avril on Feb 16, 2011 0:31:41 GMT -5
I just finished Never Let Me Go - and yes, I'm aware Scott opened a whole thread on it.
So poignant. I think I agree with you, Arch, that it's better than Remains of the Day, which I loved both as a book and film. I can't actually remember much of The Unconsoled.
Wombat and I are off to see Never Let Me Go at a media preview in a minute.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Feb 16, 2011 2:35:43 GMT -5
Youd gape too if you saw someone consuming pus to be closer to God! Eeeek! I think NEVER LET ME GO is El Floppo here in the UK, where it jest opened. Too depressing for the gloomy masses, I guess. Perhaps people are thinking we'll soon have to sell our kidneys to survive in this economy.
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Post by Avril on Feb 16, 2011 6:09:53 GMT -5
Re. Never Let Me Go. Interesting, and another layer of meaning I hadn't even considered. We're sheltered here from the worst of the GFC, I guess.
For both Wombat and me it was haunting, and even uplifting, because they still get to have whatever they have, that precious short time. And, as Wombat says, they had a soul, which they perhaps weren't meant to. To me, everyone in the movie except the donors appeared to be ugly inside and out. Horrible, mean and parasitical, as well. In their grace, their love, their sincerity and their human frailties, the donors transcended the recipients, people who one could assume were soulessly addicted to a meaningless existence dependent on the barbarous and grotesque arrangement of the National Donor Programme.
It left me feeling grateful for my life and for my choices.
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Post by Avril on Feb 16, 2011 6:14:27 GMT -5
Youd gape too if you saw someone consuming pus to be closer to God! Eeeek! Hmmm, that...is...perverse.
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