shakahislop
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my mum and niece made me read Murder On The Orient Express and it's rubbish
You are extremely inbred FYImy mum and niece
I would never normally recommend something with Stephen Fry in it but the Backlisted podcast on De Profundis was much better than I had expected. The two hosts - Andy Miller and John Mitcheson are both proper deep readers and placed it not just in the context of Reading Gaol but also his life before and after De Profundis. It made me think about Wilde entirely differently.
you've got a weak coreYou are extremely inbred FYI
Jumped straight into another of his. This one's called Nada and it's about a gang of misfits' disastrous attempt at kidnapping an American ambassador.
"Meyer wanted to shoot himself or just go to work - it was hard to say which."
no i dont think i have the motiviation to read something this big which i dont know anything about. saw the first book of burroughs cut up trilogy at the store the other day. may dive into that series now.i read like 25 pages of Gaddis the Recognitions. this is teh longest book ive ever attempted. im not sure if i have the will and strength to do it and continue on...
no i dont think i have the motiviation to read something this big which i dont know anything about. saw the first book of burroughs cut up trilogy at the store the other day. may dive into that series now.
i read like 25 pages of Gaddis the Recognitions. this is teh longest book ive ever attempted. im not sure if i have the will and strength to do it and continue on...
Agatha Christie is by miles the biggest selling author ever (except when God wrote the Bible), I dunno what that means but it's probably not a good thing.my mum and niece made me read Murder On The Orient Express and it's rubbish
The cheese did itAgatha Christie is by miles the biggest selling author ever (except when God wrote the Bible), I dunno what that means but it's probably not a good thing.
MOTOE has been made into a film so many times... Kenneth Branagh did it a few years back and changed the ending I understand. Which I guess is the only thing that makes sense... other, than... call me crazy... not doing it at all.
That said The Mousetrap is famously the longest running play of all time and I think that at the end (or maybe the start) of every performance - which is probably two times a day, six or seven days a week, for something like sixty years - they say " Please don't give away the ending" and I guess it's worked cos I don't know (or care) who did it. I'm assuming it is a whodunit, probably a safe assumption...
And also spookily it's about not a horse too.Uncannily, the start of Christie's novel read backwards predicts 'no Red Rum' over half a century before his demisal.
I dunno - it depends upon what i am reading - it usually works out at about 100 or so books a year - about 2 a week. i usually have a big book on the go along with various smaller ones. At the moment i've got the Kate Bush biog that has just been reissued, a collection of Paul Auster's non fiction, an indie press book The Quiet Act of Loving Bones by Katie Willis, the Fitzcarraldo reissue of Cannetti's Book Against Death and Deborah Levy's Hot Milk - it sounds like a lot but i don't watch a lot of telly and my kids have left home. As an experienced reader i am exceptionally fussy and do my research so that i don't waste time on things i'm not going to enjoy - i actually put a book to one side last week - i did about 120 pages of a Rumanian novel - Solenoid, it's 600+ pages long and i just couldnt see myself living with it for a couple of weeks.@jenks on average how many pages do you think you read a day? Curious just to get a metric from someone who seems like a truly avid reader.