DID
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Post by DID on Feb 13, 2003 13:18:38 GMT -5
Kubric is a genius and overrated... but when it comes to adapting anything.... ya cant beat the origional. Although body counts ;D version of Hey Jude was the best! hehe nahhh...
The shining IS the best horror flick there is.
Ive been skipping over The Twits and George and the giant peach latley. Can there be a better childrens novelist than silly billy RD?
Funny how childrens books are like playstations... ya never grow out of them. I'm thinking now that is was wrong to sell my entire Mr Men series... ;D
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Post by 0. on Feb 13, 2003 18:15:24 GMT -5
ah, Roald Dahl, another favourite. As good as his kids books are, his short stories for adults are the best ever. Noone even comes close imo. & How much does his daughter (sophie dahl)look like a witch? The Shinning was pretty good, but i reckon the Exorcist still has to be the best spook flick ever, i reckon. except evil dead, of course, but they're another thing altogether. more like P Jackson's early films, Bad Taste and Braindead. Not that this thread is about films, mind you  |
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Post by Writhe on Feb 13, 2003 19:46:12 GMT -5
wasn't 'the magician's nephew' the prequel to lion, the witch....
silver chair is listed at book number 5 or 6 in the series, which i haven't got to yet
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Yak
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Post by Yak on Feb 15, 2003 0:55:34 GMT -5
There is a beautiful big hardcover version of all the "Chronicles of Narnia" with the original artwork. I got if for my sister and her family for a Christmas so I haven't had the chance to read it yet as she lives in Qld. The TV series that the BBC did several years ago was pretty good.
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Post by womps on Feb 15, 2003 6:20:20 GMT -5
yeah we have the hardcover, illustrated Narnia. beautuflly packaged.
we also have a really nice hardcover treasury of Mr Men. now, that's literature!
and DID... i think you may mean Hey Joe. Bodycount did Hey Joe, not Hey Jude. Though that would be interesting....
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jen
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Post by jen on Feb 16, 2003 1:50:29 GMT -5
'a brief history of time' by stephen hawking and 'From Hell'(yeah, like the movie) by alan moore and eddie campbell.
history of time is a bit of a mind bender but it answers a lot of those unfathomable cosmological questions that you ask yourself sometimes when you think too hard.
moore's from hell is an epic comic/thriller novel thing with about 600 pages, but there's lots of pictures so it's like reading a movie, in an abstract, "jen that's a bad way of describing it", sort of way.
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Post by galacticcow on Feb 16, 2003 2:41:32 GMT -5
that brief history book sounds interesting, i love a good mind bender ;D
when youve finished it could i have a borrow?
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jen
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Post by jen on Feb 16, 2003 2:48:23 GMT -5
yes..... so long as the person i borrowed it of doesn't mind. then again, yeah sure you can borrow it. who returns books anyway?  |
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Post by galacticcow on Feb 16, 2003 2:53:17 GMT -5
thanks jen  good pholosophy, remind me not to lend you any of my books ;D |
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jen
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Post by jen on Feb 16, 2003 4:36:54 GMT -5
....and cds, don't 'lend' me cds. |
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DID
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Post by DID on Feb 17, 2003 9:18:59 GMT -5
your right sorry. I stand corrected womperstomper . ... jen, I got the lamens term/picture book of a brief history of time for chrissy. I still dont understand much of it but the pictrures look all nice and pretty. Borrow my copy GC. Mines got those pretty pics!  |
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Post by herstrut on Feb 17, 2003 23:14:48 GMT -5
'the girls guide to real estate'
recently finished 'many years from now' a paul mccartney biography. 'blackbird singing' poems and lyrics from paul mccartney.
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Post by nicster on Feb 18, 2003 2:10:09 GMT -5
I feel embarrassed to admit that I'm reading a Stephen King book (The Tommyknockers). I just back from my holiday and whenever Im on holiday I have a rule that I'm only allowed to read trash books Before that I had just finished Middlesex by that Eugenides guy, the one who wrote The Virgin Suicides. A most excellent book, very highly recommended. |
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Post by galacticcow on Feb 18, 2003 3:20:21 GMT -5
oooo glossy pictures, now thats tempting Did, but apparently i dont have to give jens copy back ;D
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Post by Adam on Feb 20, 2003 0:04:17 GMT -5
I just started reading The Silmarillion, bend me over and call me Johnny; it's a bloody hard book to read.
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