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From: ogden on 21 Jun 2010 12:12 Champ wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:39:33 +0100, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: > > >On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:28:07 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > > > >>Three Men in a Boat. > > >ugh. > > Really? Oh well, if I agree after having read it, I'll be able to do > so from an informed position. I quite liked it. A period piece, obviously, but one of the best opening scenes of any book, ever. I even saw Rodney Bewes (yes! him out of Viz!) do a one-man show of it in Windsor a few years back. Do yourself a favour though, get some Kurt Vonnegut in that book club sharpish. Genius. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: rick on 21 Jun 2010 12:35 "darsy" <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote in message news:e8tu16d69ov07lpa988107rm0b64bflftf(a)4ax.com... > not /quite/ what I had in mind; I was thinking more along the lines of > Podkayne of Mars or Space Family Stone. In a vaguely similar vein, I really enjoyed the Cities in Flight series by James Blish when I was a kid. -- Rick Brown Sprint RS 955i
From: darsy on 21 Jun 2010 12:46 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:12:34 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >Do yourself a favour though, get some Kurt Vonnegut in that book club >sharpish. Genius. Breakfast of Champions! -- d.
From: ogden on 21 Jun 2010 12:50 darsy wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:12:34 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > >Do yourself a favour though, get some Kurt Vonnegut in that book club > >sharpish. Genius. > > Breakfast of Champions! One of the best, certainly, along with Slaughterhouse 5. I thought Hocus Pocus was pretty good too. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: Lozzo on 21 Jun 2010 14:03
darsy wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:03:39 +0100, Colin Irvine > <look(a)bottom.of.home.page> wrote: > > > Nevil Shute > > "On the Beach" is a great novel. I've never read any of his, and I really ought to. There's a semi-local connection in that he worked on the scrapped R100[1] airship under Barnes Wallis, and I was in Barnes Wallis house at middle school [1] The fated R101 was built just up the road from where I am now, in the village I was born in. -- Lozzo Versys 650 Tourer, CBR600F-W racebike in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere) |