Books 2nd Edition, Foreword by m0r1arty Options

[NiteFall]

Does that say "Toxie loves networking" or is it just me?

[GundamGuy_UK]

Does that say "Toxie loves networking" or is it just me?

I don't actually know what it is, and I was too embarrassed to ask. So it remains a mystery.

My friends think it says "returning". I don't think it's networking, there's no "k"

This post has been edited by GundamGuy_UK: Nov 5 2007, 12:53 AM

[rabbit57i]

It looks like "returning". I had something similar happen in to me when Mark Gatiss signed a book for me with what looked like "To Michele, no-tail?" Is he questioning my gender?

[mcraigclark]

Augusten Burroughs once signed a book to me with " Dear Craig, Thanks for showing me your penis. XX"

[melzilla]

Some people will do anything for an autograph.

[curtinparloe]

Some people will do anything for an autograph.

It's true. My autograph of Toyah is at the bottom of the court injunction.

[mcraigclark]

I should clarify.

There was no revealing of bits to Augusten Burroughs that night. Really.

[Zoe]

Hilarious review for Boris Johnson's book of poetry

You might well think I am being unfair and that, like Gordon Brown's loathing for David Cameron, there is an element of class hatred behind my bile. You got the second part right. I refuse to be charmed by this gaffe-prone berk (he lost his wedding ring within an hour of getting married), this inventor of quotations (for which he was fired from the Times), this witless calumniser of scousers, witless calumniser of Papua New Guineans, this bad novelist, this brazenly buffoonish poetic dabbler. It is important, as Byron recognised when he wrote English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (now that was a vibrant piece of satirical verse), that we castigate rubbish: "Degenerate Britons! Are ye dead to shame,/ Or, kind to dulness, do you fear to blame?" We deserve better than Johnson, certainly better than Johnson the oompa loompa, pouring his chocolatey goo into our Christmas stockings.

[Sostie]

Charlie Brooker's Dawn Of The Dumb

Because I am too forgetful/lazy to actually read Brooker's columns in the Guardian/online, this was a welcome discovery. A collection of pieces from 2004 to this Summer, a really enjoyable work journey read of criticism, bile and observation. Though, whilst I seemed to agree with most of what he said, I'm not too sure about his anti-flat cap stance.

[sofa]

How did you manage that?

This week I started reading Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory. I'm loving it so far.

Mr Banks is my favorate author, and that is one of the greatest books ever written. Have read all his books and they are consistantly excellent

[Jubei]

I've spent the last couple of weeks re-reading my way through the Iain M Banks bibliography. So far read Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons and Against a Dark Background. Now on Feersum Endjinn.

Against a Dark Background is an excellent, if unusually bleak, story.

This post has been edited by Jubei: Nov 15 2007, 09:43 AM

[sofa]

Read all Banks Sci-fi but get lost in the opera stuff, excession, The Algebrast tsc
Dark background is the best of the lot, claustrophobic compared to most Sci-Fi. I managed to stay with the story.

[ipse dixit]

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

All kinds of awesome.

[Jimmay]

Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

All kinds of awesome.

Can't wait to pick up a copy of that.

I read Stardust yesterday, and just in time to still catch it at the cinema. It was most enjoyable although a large number of things were skipped over quite a lot leaving a lot of quite glaring gaps in the story. The epilogue/letter from Gaiman does allude to further books filling in the gaps but I'm not too sure if it works that well here. The fellowship of the castle for example, which is mentioned a few times but never elaborated on makes the book seem unfinished in some way.

However, over all, as a quick read, I really enjoyed it and the characterisation as always was fantastic.

[maian]

Finished This Book Will Save Your Life and it was really rather superb. Well-written, great characters and hugely entertaining.

Then, realising I had nothing to read on the train back, I popped into Waterstones and picked up A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore and have not been able tp put it down. The first half has been by turns hilarious, exciting and oddly affecting. Moore's fast becoming a favourite author.