Subject: homework / learning

we never left the subject of reading books. the tv series were in relation to specific novels. but thanks for sharing your book list. of your list i too love many of pratchetts books - but not all, some like the one set in oz were total rubbish. the best are possibly the guards series, especially nightwatch, and the recent going postal etc series. tolkien is indeed great, but i think david eddings in both the belgariad and the rift saga is equally majestic.
Gerald Durrell was one of my favourite authors when i was younger, and as a result as a 10 yr old i used to tell everyone i wanted to be a zoologist when i grew up. to now be working in africa helping communities set up game parks and lodges and eco-campsites etc is the closest i could get having decided to skip anything resembling a formal education.

yeah Pratchett is brilliant. You can tell he always puts lots of work into his characters no matter how minor they are. its a shame he has early onset Alzheimers. To think his prolific writing career could be cut short so cruelly.

i've just read the BBC are doing a documentary with him about the condition.

Im interested if anyone here has read the Damned United. Damn fine book.

at least at the moment he says it doesn't affect his writing, just other things.

I didn't know that about Terry :o(

Mr Pratchett to you, young doughboy!

Piss off with the doughboy thing!

wooooooooo! [/handbag mime]

i can't be arsed to write doughnut_jimmy all the time, and DJ just doesn't suit you... jimmy is too generic.

what about nutdough?

how about just jim ?

just_jim? works for me... does it work for you just_jim? ;D

I have to say one of my favorite authors is Paul Auster (some excellent work), a publisher who I really got into is called Rebel Inc classics and includes
Nelson algrean (the man with the golden arm and a walk on the wild side)
Jim Dodge (stone Junction)
Jack London (the star rover, possibly my favorite book ever)
John Fante (ask the dust, he inspired Bukowski who I also like)
Amazing books all of them

I think I have some reading to do, having never ventured much further than Adams (ok, so he only wrote a few books, but some of those books contain phrases that have decades of philosophical understanding) and Pratchett. Trying to read Moneyball, but I seem to drift off after a couple of pages.

dont take it seriously, what is the worst that can happen?

that is a rubbish attitude.

Anyone know how the cheater palazzo got on in the end?

Argh. The guy who is responsible for English phonetics is my nr. one enemy from now on. I guess the main goal was to make it as hard and tangled as possible, and I have to admit that guy did really well.

I'm also getting allergy when I hear "Roach". Pffft.

Looks like the night is going to be long for me.
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His name is Henry Higgins, or more correctly 'Enry 'Iggins.