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From: darsy on 17 Sep 2009 09:32 On 17 Sep 2009 13:27:03 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: >darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were >saying: > >> "Everything is Illuminated" is better. > >This 'un must be truly dreadful, then, since I found "Illuminated" to be >pretentious and unreadable bollocks. well, it's pretentious for sure, but I found it totally compelling to read and hilariously funny/desperately sad at the same time. see my advise to Zymurgy:"try some Dan Brown"[1] [1] I might add this to my list of insult-macros -- d.
From: Adrian on 17 Sep 2009 09:37 darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > see my advise to Zymurgy:"try some Dan Brown"[1] <growl> > [1] I might add this to my list of insult-macros It's worthy.
From: Lady Nina on 17 Sep 2009 09:49 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:09:58 +0100, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >>http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extremely-Loud-Incredibly-Close-Novel/dp/024114213X >> >>Stunning novel, so good I just wanted to sit and read it rather than >>look round Rome. > >"Everything is Illuminated" is better. I'd never heard of him until I picked this one up, I've now put the above on the list. -- Lady Nina
From: Lady Nina on 17 Sep 2009 09:53 On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:20:44 -0700 (PDT), zymurgy <zymurgy(a)technologist.com> wrote: >On 17 Sep, 14:09, darsy <da...(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:58:53 +0100, Lady Nina <spamtr...(a)ntlworld.com> >> wrote: >> >http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extremely-Loud-Incredibly-Close-Novel/dp/0241... >> >> >Stunning novel, so good I just wanted to sit and read it rather than >> >look round Rome. >> >> "Everything is Illuminated" is better. > >Not read either, but Amazon recommends 'The Book Thief' when you put >in E-L-I-C. It also recommends 'If nobody speaks of remarkable things' which I raved about a while back. <book thief> >I found it hard going, I prefer a bit more excitement in my novels ! I found it started really well then tailed off, to the extent it is on the pile of half read books that I'll finish at some point. -- Lady Nina
From: Lady Nina on 17 Sep 2009 09:56
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:11:37 -0700 (PDT), zymurgy <zymurgy(a)technologist.com> wrote: >On 17 Sep, 13:58, Lady Nina <spamtr...(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:33:24 +0100, Phil Launchbury >> >> <ph...(a)launchbury.org.uk> wrote: >> >In article <4ab21cfe$0$2480$db0fe...(a)news.zen.co.uk>, Hog wrote: >> >> Phil Launchbury wrote: >> >> >Collateral damage that happened in WW2 had very little to do with >> >actually winning the war.. >> >> Which is a good point to recommend >> >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extremely-Loud-Incredibly-Close-Novel/dp/0241... >> >> Stunning novel, so good I just wanted to sit and read it rather than look round Rome. > >Well, I knew you were a bit wierd, but this positively confirms it :) In the sun, at a bar having had a long day of being bumped over cobbles. Michael drew the line at me reading it at the dinner table. -- Lady Nina |