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Post by pulphack on Feb 6, 2008 14:22:49 GMT
i'll settle for that.
as for the other question, that's easy. anything i'm responsible for.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 6, 2008 16:52:08 GMT
The book I would be ready to have on my bonfire would be 'Down the Bright Stream' by BB. Anyone reading 'Little Grey Men' as a nipper simply falls in love with the three wee fellows and their lost brother. The sequel clearly reveals terrible personality conflicts in the author. I am virtually certain that he had based one of the characters on a real, much loved person who then stabbed him in the back.
If you read Little Grey men Just don't don't read the sequel. I said DON'T!!!!!
It's a worse experience than reading Titus Alone.
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Post by Calenture on Feb 6, 2008 21:43:01 GMT
Your comments on Down the Bright Stream and The Little Grey Men are interesting, Craig. I have both books but have never got into reading them as I couldn't decide if they were written for children or adults. For that reason, they just irritated me. I love Watkins-Pitchford's illustrations - interesting that he used his name for illustrations and pseudonym BB for stories. At this site, I read that he used the initials because it gave an "air of mystery". Curious, if true, considering his chosen field: BBI have Brendon Chase, which I think is autobiographical. Apparently it's for children. I definitely didn't feel Wild Lone was kid's stuff. Re: Titus Alone. I read the three books in proper order (unlike Dem ) and had read that the man's mind was failing while writing the last, but I was so deeply in the spell of Gormenghast that I didn't feel saddened by Titus Alone - although leaving the castle obviously loses a lot of the story. Thinking about it, though, maybe Dem was right and maybe this is a trilogy that should be read backward.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Feb 7, 2008 8:15:49 GMT
BB was an interesting bloke and a brilliant illustrator. Little Grey men was directed I suppose at that generation of kids who had a large vocabularly. Perhaps it depends when you read it but I would definitely rate it as one of the best kids stories ever. The other one: words fail me. Its like a betrayal of the worst form. I sincerely hope I am saying nothing here which will intrigue you to read it.
Titus Alone I agree. I loved the first two and feel sad that Peake was so ill. The book was doomed, I believe, when he left the castle. It was a difficult act to follow and being terminally ill couldn't have helped,
Craig
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Post by phantomrider on Apr 20, 2008 13:15:27 GMT
Must admit I've noticed how much music had taken over from reading in my life and just how little I do read these days (beyond the latest Pratchett and Bernard Cornwell that I inevitably get for birthdays and Christmas) since posting on this board but surprisingly it wasn't too difficult to choose just one book. Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett. I find it strangely uplifting in dark times........
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Post by coral on Apr 20, 2008 19:48:35 GMT
what a super thought, thanks, you cheered up my day!
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Post by bushwick on Jul 29, 2008 13:02:06 GMT
Hmmm...
As for book, it couldn't be a pulp novel as I'd read it in a couple of hours. I think I'd take a good encyclopedia or even the latest comprehensive OED.
Film: As I'm stuck on a desert island with natives and all, I'd go for Ruggeros Deodato's unsavoury masterpiece Cannibal Holocaust. Would take on a whole new terrifying dimension...I'd be watching my back for cannibals constantly.
Album: Would probably have to be either 'Static Age' or 'Walk Among Us' by the Misfits. Will never tire of those two. Failing that, maybe a Ramones anthology?
And as for the book that I would lay waste to....it's a hard one...but I'd have to say, probably Robert M Pirsig's 'Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance'. A 'worthy' book...but tiresome, self-indulgent and really hard to get into. Remember reading Kerouac's 'On The Road' in an afternoon around the same time, but this was the opposite. Took me weeks of putting it down, leaving it for ages, then plucking up the courage to pick it up again. One of those 'pivotal' books you're supposed to read in your late teens. My advice would be, don't bother...read Bukowski instead, a far better (and way less pretensious) role model for youth!
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Post by allthingshorror on Jul 29, 2008 14:50:02 GMT
ONe of the most entertaining threads on here!
Right - now for my tuppence worth.
If I was to take a book it would probably be Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan. For the DVD - would be Shogun Assassin - just one film I can never get tired of. And an album..just one album?
Give me The Serpent and the Rainbow OST. It's worth a mint and I can beat myself up knowing I've got something thats worth a few quid but will never see a return on - BUT if I do get rescused, it will be worth jack shit cos I would have played that rancid little motherf**k*r to death.
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Post by mrsmop on Sept 17, 2008 15:18:40 GMT
The king James version of the bible would have to be the book.It has everything murder,incest,lust,greed,courage,cowardice it's all there.The film would be Dumb and dumber,it is so ridiculous and funny that it would counteract against the effect the bible would have on me.and the album has got to be anything by the pogues.
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Post by haruhisuzumiya on Sept 17, 2008 19:41:43 GMT
creed, freaks, talking heads
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Post by stephenbacon on Sept 17, 2008 20:45:51 GMT
Cormac McCarthy's The Road
The Prestige
Disintegration by The Cure
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