tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post1910143811857281876..comments2023-10-10T10:50:56.735+02:00Comments on Inanities: Fierce competition between God and Dan Brown**Sarah Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02146943046266549277noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-85678069284985043902007-06-07T11:57:00.000+02:002007-06-07T11:57:00.000+02:00Amnesiac: Wuthering Heights was written by Emily r...Amnesiac: Wuthering Heights was written by Emily rather than Catherine Bronte you moron.<BR/><BR/>Forsooth: I can lend you some of them. <BR/><BR/>I think Holden was chilled, in a nervous breakdown sort of way.<BR/><BR/>I believe that I have made my views clear on the Mrs Robinson option.Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-75568340354387408472007-06-07T11:29:00.000+02:002007-06-07T11:29:00.000+02:00hmm...i haven't read most of those. you shoulda re...hmm...i haven't read most of those. you shoulda recommended. i will download. i don't we've actually talked about specific authors or books much except ahdaf soueif and waguih, who tab3an is the shiznit. <BR/><BR/>i really disliked catcher in the rye. the guy just needed to chill. <BR/><BR/>all my friends are book readers btw (except the british one)...if you wanted to shop young, fee.Forsoothsayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02765993032234113659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-32618557438964839432007-06-06T17:30:00.000+02:002007-06-06T17:30:00.000+02:00Yes and mad props, yo, to Salinger for that decisi...Yes and mad props, yo, to Salinger for that decision.<BR/><BR/>I found being alive unbearable when I watched 30 minutes of the film of the Unbearable Lightness.<BR/><BR/>OK if we're having a serious discussion about books and authors wot we like some of my faves (which I can remember. It's a problem) are:<BR/><BR/>Bukowski<BR/>Lenny Bruce: How to Talk Dirty...<BR/>Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters<BR/>Jonathan Coe: The Rotter's Club<BR/>Roald Dahl<BR/>Ahdaf Soueif<BR/>Waguih Ghali: Beer in the Snooker Club<BR/>Rabih Alameddine: I, the Divine<BR/>Graham Greene: The End of the Affair<BR/>Alaa el Aswany<BR/>Naguib Mahfouz<BR/>John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman<BR/>Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong<BR/>Elmore Leonard: Cuba Libre<BR/>Catherine Cusset: La Haine de la Famille<BR/>Michela Wrong: I Didn't Do it For You<BR/>J.P Donleavy: The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms<BR/>Tennessee Williams<BR/>Sylvia Plaith: The Bell Jar<BR/>Ihsan Abdel Qodous<BR/>Robert Tressell: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists<BR/>Catherine Bronte: Wuthering Heights<BR/>Jay McInerney: Brightness Falls<BR/>William Boyd: The New ConfessionsScarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-70567152106694037362007-06-06T01:14:00.000+02:002007-06-06T01:14:00.000+02:00Catcher is wicked pissah! (all the Southeys in the...Catcher is wicked pissah! <BR/><BR/>(all the Southeys in the house say aaaaaaay).<BR/><BR/>Did you know Salinger is still alive and won't do interviews?<BR/><BR/>I like Robert Bolt's "A man for all seasons" as well. Leslie Thomas' early novels tickle me in places best left untickled, Hanif Kureishi has produced a few masterpieces and among the American writers...a little John Irving, anyone?<BR/><BR/>Desert Island book: Unbearable lightness of being.Basil Epicurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882946059262129059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-57919051054933269792007-06-05T22:18:00.000+02:002007-06-05T22:18:00.000+02:00Hebe: Tell me about it.Fully P: Yes but you see if...Hebe: Tell me about it.<BR/><BR/>Fully P: Yes but you see if I refine and define the criteria for future husbands any further by specifying authors and singers I might as well just start an Amazonhusbands.com site or join a nunnery.<BR/><BR/>Basil: Absolutely top 10 lists everywhere are awful and crap sells like hot cakess. The thing which bothered me here was 1. it was only a top 9 and, 2. the lack of variety which you must admit is startling. I mean no.8 in itself made me want to cry.<BR/><BR/>Actually while I know what kind of airport reading I don't like, I would have a hard timing defining 'literature.' Traditionalists have it that literature has to be by old dead white males (usually) and few of my favourites fall into this category. My tastes are far more contemporary and although I used to love the Brontes. And it's embarrassing and cliched but one of my all time favourites is Catcher in the Rye.Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-51531156522225651562007-06-05T22:00:00.000+02:002007-06-05T22:00:00.000+02:00I think you're over-stating the importance of book...I think you're over-stating the importance of books to people...you may think of books as literature, but most people view them as really long magazines with no pictures. I mean, most books and best-seller lists around the world are inherently embarrassing. Here in the US, it's all self-help, self-absorb and my-side-of-the-not-very-interesting-story-to-begin-with. And in the UK, it's football bios, pop star bios and, worse, big brother bios. Why should Egypt be any different?<BR/><BR/>The next question I'd ask is how about actual literature...any favorites there?Basil Epicurushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882946059262129059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-12880630452543619432007-06-05T21:00:00.000+02:002007-06-05T21:00:00.000+02:00maybe this should let you rethink the book-reading...maybe this should let you rethink the book-reading requirement that you set for your (potential) pilots. someone who reads coelho and dan brown should not have anything over someone who does not. if anything, it should be the other guy who gets bonus points here.<BR/><BR/>this is like requiring that someone listens to music. a britney spears fan would fulfill this criteria but i very much doubt that that would impress you.fully_polynomialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02626627354385237871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-36796865731162196772007-06-05T17:53:00.000+02:002007-06-05T17:53:00.000+02:00how unbelievably depressing , especaially since bo...how unbelievably depressing , especaially since both angels and demons and the da vinci code have pretty much the SAME BLOODY PLOT with a few variationsHebehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13937927463801164403noreply@blogger.com