Right THAT'S ENOUGH, me bitch is watching this crap so IM OFF to the workshop to spend time with my girls...Later dudes. Might just start them all up, see if I can get her picture off the wall.....and hear some proper music.
That twat on the right stayed in hotel I work at number of times, well him and rest of his twatty friends. Each and every single one of them think they are megastar gods. They act very much like cyclists where they think they are above the law, above "normal" people. Worse in it all is fact they are not even that famous yet and might never be!! Wonder what propaganda they feed them?
They tell them that they are "a talent", that they are an "artist", that they were "born to do this" etc etc.......................ad infinitum. Even if they are not. Wouldn't that turn your head and make you act like a twat?
Haven't watched any of them and from the comments I have extended my life by quite a few hours:biggrin:
Er... book anyone? It's a thing that you buy or borrow, choosing from 100s of thousands to make sure you get one that interests you, and then you just read it whenever you have a free moment. No programming tyranny, no ads. Give it a whirl sometime. Currently stuck into Vol 3 of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. I have no time for The X Factor!
Last one reads just as a continuation of the second one. Ponder this: none of them were published in his lifetime. What sort of self-belief and dedication does it take to sit down and write about 1'800 pages when no one appears interested in them?
Yes the Millennium Trilogy gets my I think we should start a book thread - I am reading the second of the Hunger Games books - at least it sends me off to sleep - not read a REALLY good book in a while and would like some recommendations ,,,
My view on the Millennium Trilogy: Great read, massively page-turning. Huge cast of characters, very good plot which hangs together extremely well. Interesting to read something that happens in Sweden (where not a lot of literature is set, for the English reader). On the minus side, you can tell it's written by a journalist: there is no ironic distance between the narrator and his material, the style is transparent, but not artfully transparent like Ian McEwan - it just doesn't have much in the way of style. There is little description, the prose is not poetic or especially pleasing. This all makes it highly recommendable, but the sort of books that you can easily give away once you have read them - you probably won't need to re-read them. As for recommendations, I think one of the most interesting and intelligent books I have read in the past year is Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd - a book so rich in ideas that you know you'll read it again to refocus on stuff you are sure you are missing. Equally, it is also pretty fast-paced and page-turning. I recently finished his Waiting for Sunrise which was great fun, but didn't have that much to say, I felt. Good books? God. How many do you want? Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler is a fave, Atonement by McEwan (though I love nearly all his stuff, although he's not getting better with age), Graham Swift's books and I thoroughly recommend The Accidental by Ali Smith - incredible bit of writing (though I see that opinions on Amazon are incredibly divided on that one. For me it's a 5 star).
I read Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd quite a few years ago and remember enjoying it along with several other of his books. Anything by Sebastian Faulks is worth a read. The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas is good fun. Similar in concpept to Iain Banks' Transitions which is also worth a read. I will also work my way, eventually, through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin series set in the Royal Navy of the early 19th century. And for light relief try Christopher Brookmyre, beginning with Pandemonium.
Top thread jack Glidd...... One of the most memorable books I have read was "Bomber" by Len Deighton. Makes you think, that one.
