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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *spanks Matt for being evil*

    That'll learn ya.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    *wants to spank someone too*

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by opera bitch:
    *wants to spank someone too*

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    *keeps arse outta the way of this lot* <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;



    It matters not who won or lost, but how you place the blame.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now on bbc2 each day this week at around 11.20 (after news night).
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm reading Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux at teh mo. I am half way through. Definitely recommended.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by alexanderlebbon:
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now on bbc2 each day this week at around 11.20 (after news night).

    that's a classic <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by opera bitch:
    lol, i'll send u mine if u like, i nicked from the library (by accident) [IMG][/img]

    Yeah sure!! Ive used that excuse sooo many times! Our librarian hates me! lol
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by MasterDevilish:
    that's a classic <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/smile.gif"&gt;


    Ohhh yes....

    Might have to read it again on holiday... <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"&gt;

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  • Girl-From-MarsGirl-From-Mars Posts: 2,822 Boards Guru
    Originally posted by TheEgoHasLanded:
    Ohhh yes....

    Might have to read it again on holiday... <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"&gt;


    im in the process of reading it, well read the first 2 now and the tv series came on quite coindicentally... and im reading another book i got free with a magazine, so im not solidly reading it or nuffin... but yes, point is, im reading it. and the sad thing is, i can very nearly recite the words along with the narrator and the people on the tv series...

    *needs a life*

    "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
    ~ Nietzsche
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Everyone youngish should read:
    Girlfriend In A Coma by DOuglas Coupland,
    The Folded Leaf by William Maxwell (most underrated author this century, I think)

    EVERYONE should read:
    The reader Bernhard Schlink
    Leviathan by Paul Auster
    and DEFINITELY Of Mice and Men. The most moving book I've ever read, and the ending has me welling up every time.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru

    I'm a big reader, but there's a few that've stuck in my mind as truly "great" -
    -Trainspottingby Irvine Welsh
    If you loved the film, you'll love the book even more. It explains a lot more of the story, and there are a lot more characters. Anything by Irvine Welsh is good.
    -Catcher In The Ryeby J.D. Salinger
    Holden Caulfield, the main character, has been the basis for so many films, other books, and music. His story of coming of age is timeless.
    -The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
    The film was great, but the book is better. I actually felt like I was in Italy as I was reading this, and I fell in love with Tom Ripley. It's also pretty spooky.
    -Going All The Way by Dan Wakefield
    A post-modern Catcher, and the title should pretty much give away what its about.
    -The Call of Cthulu by H.P. Lovecraft
    A short story written by the man who influenced Steven King. Pretty fucking scary.
    -Johnny Got Your Gun by Dalton Trumbo
    The basis for Metallica's "One". It's about this soldier who looses his arms, legs, and all his five senses, but he's still alive. All he can feel is what's in his mind, it's pretty fucking sick, as well.

    Well, you're probably sick of my list, but these are the ones I've read over and over. Hey, you just might like one.
    "Beers grow on trees"
    -Cliff Burton (RIP)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A really good book I read earlier this year was 'Girl, Interrupted' by Susanna Kaysen.
    They made it into a film with Angelina Jolie and Winona Ryder. After seeing the film I just had to read the book. The ending of the book is very much different to the film ending.


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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I like Stephen King books too. My favourites have to be Insomnia cos it was the first one I read when I was 13. I also liked Needful Things. I read a short story by King once about a finger in the plughole and it spooked me for weeks. It was in his short story collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
    I also like Roots. It is a great historical book. I also liked Gone With The Wind and the sequel to it.
    Recently I read Angela's Ashes and the sequel Tis and they were good books.
    Last year at college we did Frankenstein and this year I'll be doing Dracula. Does anyone know if it is any good?

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by alexanderlebbon:
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is now on bbc2 each day this week at around 11.20 (after news night).

    Yeah Wicked - why read when you can just switch on the mindnumbing television cooooool

  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Girlfriend In A Coma is really good, i'll second that! Yeah, Terry Pratchett is good - the middle ones of the discworld series (Mort, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade) are his best i think. Um, Margaret Atwoods book The Handmaids Tale is really good, all Margaret Atwood books are (she won the booker prize this year), but they're quite heavy going, some of them. For lighter stuff that'll make you laugh SO much, you HAVE to read Easy, by Emma Gold or My Life On A Plate by India Knight.

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