(OT And Years Too Late) LoTR II

What I've always wondered is, where did the Hobbits get their drugs?
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Gandalf's greenhouse, where else

 

Lovely phrase. Brilliant book. And wonderfully obscure so you can
torture non-native speakers with it.

 

The weed they're smoking ain't tobacco.

 

Farmer Maggot's Magic Mushroom Farm.
What about the Legolas/Gimli question? Who was top and who was bottom?

 

Then use it properly... it's "Up to a point, Lord Copper"...

Oh, you should read Waugh. Everyone should.

A Handful of Dust is, as you say, negative, cynical and depressing...
probably why I like it. The whole fate of the man, reading Dickens for
an eternity to some nutter in Africa, the reaction of the wife to
hearing that "John's dead" (the relief when she realises it's her son
and not her lover) etc. etc. Wonderful. There was an alternative
ending where Tony returns and was reunited with Brenda which wouldn't
have done it for me.

I don't understand why it hasn't been made into a film really, I mean
Vile Bodies was and whilst it's a good book I don't think it's in the
same league.

Brideshead, well stands apart really and has its good points, it's been
somewhat ruined by the television adaptation (which was good IMO but
even though I'd read the book first the 'visuals' are someone else's and
not mine in my memory).

Then there's the 'Men at Arms' trilogy which I'm fond of.

Actually, I don't think there's a Waugh book I haven't enjoyed or given
the time wouldn't read again.

Wish I had more time to read, I'm so ghastly busy at the moment I'm
doing well to manage 2-3 books a month when in my youth I'd often read
one a day (the joys of being unemployed).

One day they'll whack me, give me a stupendous pay off[1] and I'll go
back to university to try my hand at English lit looking at British
authors from the 20s and 30s (mainly Greene, Huxley, Waugh are three
that spring to mind). Then again there's also Ballard to read[2] and
I've not quite extinguished his output yet.

[1] Yeah, right...
[2] On balance probably the person who I *think* has written the most
thought provoking stuff I've read.

 

That's true. For the misery and hopelesness (but wonderful prose).

Heavens, it had barely started... Fantastic book.

Only some of it.

 

Not heard a thing so now I'm on tenterhooks until Tuesday and going
through the 'does this mean that they still haven't decided, or they
have and not told those who didn't get it or it'll go to second
interview or <insert permutations here>'

They asked why I hadn't applied for the outreach posts (hadn't seen
them) and said that there was another one coming up, so if I don't get
the in house one I'll apply for that - which will be another sodding
2- 3 month process, the closing date for this one was back in March.

No, none at all. Use the threads at one.

 

Yup, I loved it, in a weird way.

 

If you say so.

Anyway, Chabbat over, so just watching the third film, and yet _another_
bloody inconsistency: Saruman gets stabbed by Wormtongue just after
Gandalf breaks his staff? And Grima gets shot by Legolas? Bollox.
Saruman 'gets his' in the book, right at the end, when the Hobbits have
gone back to the Shire. And Peter Jackson removed one of the most
stirring parts of the dialogue, when Gandalf says, 'I cast you from the
Council'.

Still. Back to the film ...

D.

 

Whatever. There's still no such thing as 'bad literature'.

D.

 

(des_just_passing_through) wrote in

Barbara Cartland.

 

<fx: holds head in hands>

That'll teach me.

D.

 

Have you actually read any? Do you know it's bad?

 

No and no.


I'm making an assumption here; but one I'd be happy to place a
reasonable bet on.

 

I read a Mills and Boon too. It was published in 1911, before the
company went soppy, and is a ripping yarn.
As you brought up the subject, there are M&B books online at
http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/cgi-bin/millsandboon.storefront/EN/Catalog/1002
I've got the chocolate Hobnobs and cocoa. That's my evening sorted!
I'll have to look at a Cartland to verify your opinion though.

 

You'd be incensed at the plot departures in the Harry Potter films.

I just can't believe film makers are unable to make wizard and mythical
creature films accurately.

 

Heh

D/

 

Years ago, on 'Question Time', Robin Day was berated by an apartheid
apologist in the audience along the lines of: "But have you ever been to
South Africa?" "What's that got to with anything?" said brave Sir Robin.
"I haven't been to the North Pole either, but I know it's bloody cold."

 

He didn't. Watch the film again. And pay attention this time.