A Whole Book in One Word

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Pete1950, Mar 28, 2013.

  1. Brilliant............................. (white, with a touch of grey)


    AL
     
  2. Haynes Ducati Manual........... sore fingers
     
  3. Human Traces: Expansive
     
  4. Whats your point?
     
  5. a clockwork orange by antony burgess = weird
    quadrophenia by alan fletcher = mods
    mein kampf by adolf hitler = political
    the long walk by slavomir rawicz = hardship ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, this is a great read
     
    #25 kev cornwall, Mar 29, 2013
    Last edited: Mar 29, 2013
  6. Siddhartha: Herman Hess- Realization

    Politics of ecstasy : Tim Leary- L.S.D

    The old man and the sea: Hemingway- Determination

    On the road: Jack Kerouac- Traveling

    Romeo & Juliet: Shakespeare- Lust

    The end of faith: Sam Harris- Reason

    Fear & loathing in Las Vegas: Hunter S. Thomson- Drugs

    Loneliness of the long distance runner: Alan Silittoe- Rebellion

    God is not great: Chris Hitchens- Clarity

    The child in time: Ian McEwan- Loss
     
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  7. Charlotte Gray, Charlotte Gray, so good I posted it twice!
     
  8. Fair point. My misunderstanding.

    My answer, about as much "truth" as the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm, and less entertaining.
     
  9. A boy called it. = me
     
  10. I didn't think that Charlotte Gray was that good. You kept thinking it was going to lead up to some exciting denouement, and then it didn't.

    Now Birdsong on the other hand...
     
  11. The reason it did not seem to end in my view was to encourage the reader to think more about the subject matter.

    Glidd, there is a part in Charlotte Grey that stopped me in my tracks and caused me to put the book down and weep. No other book has ever done that, before or since. Incredible writing.

    In terms of the end piece, I agree with you regarding Birdsong. Also incredible writing.

    To be honest, I think we should all read Foulkes' portfolio, he is such a great observer of the human condition.

    Here but for the grace of god go all of us.

    Regards, SH
     
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  12. American Psycho - twisted
     
  13. You wrote

    The Conservative party 2010 election manifesto- lies

    The manifesto was a statement of intent if they won the election. They didn't win the election so the manifesto became redundant. Therefore it can't be lies.
     
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  14. It would be about the only manifesto that isn't.
     
  15. American Psycho - Fashion?
     
  16. really? That's not the most pleasant of reads
     
  17. Well yes. Election manifestos are always collections of promises and predictions. The predictions may not come true, and the promises may not be kept, but that does not make them "lies". I think the point here is that politicians sometimes make statements about what their intentions are, when those are not really their intentions at all; those statements really are "lies" at the time they are made.
     
  18. They say that everyone has a book they could write. However this book was mine already written of my life. So society had been let off by my poor effort :)
     
  19. Dude, don't know that to say :frown:
     
  20. Agree with Birdsong I'm on the second read
     
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