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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Jun 2010 15:26 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "sweller" <sweller(a)mztech.fsnet.co.uk> saying something like: >Although asking a bunch of sociopath misfits Just William! Of course.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Jun 2010 15:41 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> saying something like: >Current one is Three Men in a Boat. I prefer Little Man in a Boat.
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 22 Jun 2010 15:54 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Jim <nul(a)0.0.0.0> saying something like: >His autobiography "Slide Rule" goes into quite some detail about the >R100/R101. By all accounts it turned him quite anti-big-government - you >can see echos of that philosophy in a lot of his books. I was bloody sure that Shute wrote a novel about the Berlin Airlift, but can find no trace of it.
From: The Older Gentleman on 23 Jun 2010 02:21 Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: > I was bloody sure that Shute wrote a novel about the Berlin Airlift, but > can find no trace of it. I remember it: it centred around a struggling engineer who'd developed a new type of aero engine. It wasn't Shute, though, It was Air Bridge by Hammond Innes. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com
From: Pip Luscher on 23 Jun 2010 17:11
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:12:34 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >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 liked it. It's been so long that I can't recall the opening scene, though. I don't recall liking the sequel (if Three Men on the Bummel was truly a sequel) quite as much. -- -Pip |