at long last, Twitter proves its worth

[Andrew_Culture]

May have been a very cheap bulk purchase AC!

I like your style!


I was singled out and was given 'Catch 22' for my GCSE year and the humour really appealed to me. I still love it even now.

 

[Archie_tect]

If you wanted cheering up, you should have read Jude The Obscure........I was in therapy for ten years after reading that. In fact I rather visit Northumberland than read it again.

Sounds a real page-turner...

 

[Archie_tect]

I like your style!


I was singled out and was given 'Catch 22' for my GCSE year and the humour really appealed to me. I still love it even now.

Some people had all the luck. Mind you, the war poems of Wilfred Owen had a lasting effect on me.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Some people had all the luck. Mind you, the war poems of Wilfred Owen had a lasting effect on me.

God yes, until Catch 22 and Wilfred

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Owen I was a teenager in danger of thinking war was cool.

 

[Theseus]

The non-Shakespeare books I had were The Power & the Glory and The Grapes of Wrath. Power I found hard to pick up, but Grapes was hard to put down. I think I read it once for myself and then a second time for the class.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Sorry to disappoint you, Musa, it's actually very good.

Most climbing books are like TdF riders' books - ghost written by a journalist and usually just a list of statistics and violent arguments with team members, which only a follower of the sport would bother with. Touching the Void is quite different; an exhilarating read even for the non-climber. The film is just as good, in its own way. Joe Simpson was a capable writer before that expedition and a very good lecturer after it.

I was very disappointed in the book. I enjoyed the film, but I didn't find Joe Simpson to be a particularly strong writer, at least in this book (it has rather put me off reading any of his others). That's not remotely to diminish his experience, but it's not a patch on Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air IMHO.

 

[dellzeqq]

I can't remember what my A level English set books were. I know for darn sure I didn't read them. Which probably explains why I passed.

 

[asterix]

The Mayor of Casterbridge put me off Thomas Hardy for life... fortunately for me.

You should have tried Tess of the d'Urbeville's - a real hoot.

 

[dellzeqq]

You should have tried Tess of the d'Urbeville's - a real hoot.

this calls for a new thread...

 

[betty swollocks]

You should have tried Tess of the d'Urbeville's - a real hoot.

I'd rather swim the crocodile-infested Zambesi with a slab of raw meat stapled to my bare buttocks, then read 'Return of the Native' again.

 

[dellzeqq]

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-send-a-writer-to-devils-island-thread.102753/

 

[betty swollocks]

Why do people refer to rivers and seas being infested with crocodiles and sharks, when the creatures just live there?

I think it becomes 'infested' when you, for whatever reason, don't particularly like said creatures.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What is the word in crocodile?

Do you mean word for phobia of reptiles or cod?

 

[swee'pea99]

You should have tried Tess of the d'Urbeville's - a real hoot.

Jude the Obscure - now there's a thigh-slapper.