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Books are always better if you have a half decent imagination. But it wasn't a bad movie overall. I enjoyed it, and I'm pretty picky when it comes to movies. It's only entertainment ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Monkey Planet by Pierre Boulle.
The book that inspired 'Planet of the Apes' films..
It's a bit of a bore to read through considering how well I know the film, but it is different... ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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Salems Lot.
Not actually reading it. I bought it on kindle after watching other Stephen King stuff on TV. Trouble is the old TV series scared the s#it out of me back in the day and I'm spooking myself out of actually starting it |
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I was intrigued by the posts about the book version of 'The Martian' so I got myself a copy. I'm not disappointed - it's pretty good |
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I wasn't expecting it to be like any movie. The short story for which the anthology is named does share character names and general plot points from the movie 'For Your Eyes Only' but despite that it is immensely different. Entertaining though. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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panrider_uk wrote: | Have just got the entire Discworld series to start wading through. |
Some of them were brilliant, they went downhill a bit towards the end unfortunately.
One of my favourite parts (I won't say which book though):
Quote: | . . . Clang boinng clang ding . . .
The sound echoed around Lancre.
Grown men, digging in their gardens, flung down their spades and hurried for
the safety of their cottages . . .
. . . Clang boinnng goinng ding . . .
Women appeared in doorways and yelled desperately for their children to come
in at once . . .
. . . BANG buggrit Dong boinng . . .
Shutters thundered shut. Some men, watched by their frightened families,
poured water on the fire and tried to stuff sacks up the chimney . . .
Nanny Ogg lived alone, because she said old people needed their pride and
independence. Besides, Jason lived on one side, and he or his wife
whatshername could easily be roused by means of a boot applied heavily to the
wall, and Shawn lived on the other side and Nanny had got him to fix up a long
length of string with some tin cans on it in case his presence was required.
But this was only for emergencies, such as when she wanted a cup of tea or
felt bored.
. . . Bond drat clang . . .
Nanny Ogg had no bathroom but she did have a tin bath, which normally hung on
a nail on the back of the privy. Now she was dragging it indoors. It was
almost up the garden, after being bounced off various trees, walls, and garden
gnomes on the way.
Three large black kettles steamed by her fireside. Beside them were half a
dozen towels, the loofah, the pumice stone, the soap, the soap for when the
first soap got lost, the ladle for fishing spiders out, the waterlogged rubber
duck with the prolapsed squeaker, the bunion chisel, the big scrubbing brush,
the small scrubbing brush, the scrubbing brush on a stick for difficult
crevices, the banjo, the thing with the pipes and spigots that no one ever
really knew the purpose of, and a bottle of Klatchian Nights bath essence, one
drop of which could crinkle paint.
. . . Bong clang slam . . .
Everyone in Lancre had learned to recognize Nanny's pre-ablutive activities,
out of self-defense.
"But it ain't April!" neighbours told themselves, as they drew the curtains.
In the house just up the hill from Nanny Ogg's cottage Mrs. Skindle grabbed
her husband's arm.
"The goat's still outside!"
"Are you mad? I ain't going out there! Not now!"
"You know what happened last time! It was paralysed all down one side for
three days, man, and we couldn't get it down off the roof!"
Mr. Skindle poked his head out of the door. It had all gone quiet. Too quiet.
"She's probably pouring the water in," he said.
"You've got a minute or two," said his wife. "Go on, or we'll be drinking
yoghurt for weeks."
Mr. Skindle took down a halter from behind the door, and crept out to where
his goat was tethered near the hedge. It too had learned to recognize the
bathtime ritual, and was rigid with apprehension.
There was no point in trying to drag it. Eventually he picked it up bodily.
There was a distant but insistent sloshing noise, and the bonging sound of a
floating pumice stone bouncing on the side of a tin bath.
Mr. Skindle started to run.
Then there was the distant tinkle of a banjo being tuned.
The world held its breath.
Then it came, like a tornado sweeping across a prairie.
"AAaaaaeeeeeee-"
Three flowerpots outside the door cracked, one after the other. Shrapnel
whizzed past Mr. Skindle's ear.
"-wizzaaardsah staaafff has a knobontheend, knobontheend-"
He threw the goat through the doorway and leapt after it. His wife was
waiting, and slammed the door shut behind him.
The whole family, including the goat, got under the table.
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes
which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and
became some sort of invasive presence.
There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass, but
Nanny's high C could clean it |
On topic though, I'm working my way through the Harry Potter series again, (mainly because I've read everything else on my kindle and can't be bothered putting more on it). |
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I really must get round to Douglas Adams ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 117 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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