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Post by Patrick on Jul 9, 2010 11:30:32 GMT
I remember looking that up sometime. They really are missing a trick there - They could expand their sales right through the year if they brought some of the other recipes back out. What better on a cold Winter's day than a Pimms and Whisky - or a Warmed up Pimms and Rum. I'd sack their marketing guy if I were them.
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Jul 9, 2010 11:37:42 GMT
i started reading again recenlty after a long break from reading ( does anyone find that the internet in general means you read less than you used to, and watch less tv than you used to, and do less everytihnk in general really? scarey it is. except for wanking of course, it seems to increase the wanking.. ~blush~ ) i digress. i am reading reheated cabbage a collection of short stories by Irvine Welsh. but you're not reading that one so i guess i am not in the book club.  I make a conscious effort sometimes to turn off my laptop and read a book or actually watch TV (as opposed to it just being on in the background.) I find that i can easily waste a whole 3 or 4 hours of an evening online . . first I check Facebook, then my message boards (here, bitbot, back on the Harbour now), then maybe a game of solitaire, then just one more check on the MBs before I put it off . . and oh look, I want to post just one more thing . . etc. etc. Of course, if I'm at work (QUICK SOMEONE CALL ERIC AND BODGETT, THE INTERNET POLICE AND TELL THEM TO THREATEN TO CALL MY EMPLOYERS AGAIN) I can't read books or watch TV, so I don't have those distractions! Lol. I wonder whatever became of Bodgett? Somedays I feel more inclined toward culture vulturism than others. When I'm not writing, I do enjoy reading...but the male chauvinist slob in me sometimes insists I crack open a few tinnies and pick my toenails. Other days I can simply be yearning to dress myself in art, music, and literature. I'll nip out and buy a posh newspaper, read some Chekov, and sip tea from a cup, tipping my head back and laughing occasionally at some quote about the Rennaisance, enjoying the musty familiar scent of an open hardback. It can last for hours, sometimes days, but I always end up back with tinnies and cold kebab typing in 'free hard sex' into google. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2010 13:49:44 GMT
I remember looking that up sometime. They really are missing a trick there - They could expand their sales right through the year if they brought some of the other recipes back out. What better on a cold Winter's day than a Pimms and Whisky - or a Warmed up Pimms and Rum. I'd sack their marketing guy if I were them. YES this is true.. i wonder which Pimms type it is that Riot has been drinking? i would imGINE IT IS THE POPULAR pIMMS number 1, the one described as 'English style'. ;D |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 9, 2010 16:28:45 GMT
I remember looking that up sometime. They really are missing a trick there - They could expand their sales right through the year if they brought some of the other recipes back out. What better on a cold Winter's day than a Pimms and Whisky - or a Warmed up Pimms and Rum. I'd sack their marketing guy if I were them. YES this is true.. i wonder which Pimms type it is that Riot has been drinking? i would imGINE IT IS THE POPULAR pIMMS number 1, the one described as 'English style'. ;D Yes it was. And I drunk it English style too. That is to say, I took over several less civilised nations while drinking it and said 'excuse me old chap, but I'd like some your bally goods and services for the use of dear old blighty. Please give them to me or else I'll kill you.' |
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Post by Patrick on Jul 9, 2010 22:23:16 GMT
Why buy Pimms though when Aldi's Austins is a third of the price!
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 19, 2010 12:18:58 GMT
I've just ordered Three Men in a boat from the library, so don't finish discussing it until I've got at least half way through!
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 19, 2010 12:41:46 GMT
I've just ordered Three Men in a boat from the library, so don't finish discussing it until I've got at least half way through! It's all right Housey. I haven't started reading my copy yet. I'm trying to finish off another book first. And Trubble is totally awol, so we may end up having to start without her. |
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Post by trubble on Jul 20, 2010 13:45:47 GMT
I think I must behind the rest of you. I haven't reached the chapter about Pimms yet. Or Free Hard Sex.
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Post by trubble on Jul 20, 2010 13:47:21 GMT
It was never this disorderly when Richard & Judy were in charge, I miss them.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 20, 2010 15:04:09 GMT
I've just bought a huge stack of "Neal Asher" & "Alastair Reynolds" novels - They are about the spacefuture.  AH |
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Post by everso on Jul 20, 2010 15:06:09 GMT
Has anyone reached the bit where there's a dead dog in the river?
That bit always makes me laugh.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 20, 2010 16:18:52 GMT
I think I must behind the rest of you. I haven't reached the chapter about Pimms yet. Or Free Hard Sex. Does behinding someone mean what I think it means? ;D |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 21, 2010 7:02:11 GMT
I read the first three chapters last night, as instructed.
Am not particularly enjoying it so far. It's a bit over-stylised. A bit frou-frou. A bit trying-too-hard-to-be-clever.
Still, it's easy enough to read so I'll plough on.
It's a bit like an adult Billy Bunter story sort of.
Do others agree?
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Post by everso on Jul 21, 2010 16:55:47 GMT
It's funny Riot, but I hadn't read it for a few years and started to read it on-line. I agree with you actually. It's still enjoyable, but I really do think I've grown out of it a bit.
Sorry everyone. It was my suggestion too!
Anyone read Billy Liar?
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 21, 2010 17:21:48 GMT
It's funny Riot, but I hadn't read it for a few years and started to read it on-line. I agree with you actually. It's still enjoyable, but I really do think I've grown out of it a bit. Sorry everyone. It was my suggestion too! Anyone read Billy Liar? Never mind Billy Liar. We're doing '3 men' first. I've started so I'll finish. |
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 21, 2010 19:04:29 GMT
Oh - does one of them get caned at the end of each chapter?
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 21, 2010 19:10:15 GMT
Oh - does one of them get caned at the end of each chapter? Oi! You're supposed to be reading it too. You should know. But similarly much business about this and that in it. Feels like a very Engilsh novel, but I'm not sure why I'm saying that. Jennings maybe? A bit 'rum cove' 'what japes'? I'll read more tonight. I'm only at the bit where they're packing for the trip. |
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 21, 2010 19:29:04 GMT
I haven't yet got my copy, but will pop into the library tomorrow to see if it has arrived.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 21, 2010 19:51:01 GMT
I've got to find my copy yet. I've got Three Men on the Bummell.
I mean to read a big Billy Bunter book that I've got - bound facsimiles of Magnet - at the time when they first came out - from about Oct to past Xmas. One big story called, "Billy Bunter and the Courtfield Cracksman."
Has anyone else noticed that E Powell's Rivers of Blood speech was written in the same style as Frank Richards? And he expected to be taken seriously? (Frank Richards - Charles Hamilton - was one of my heroes. 50 words a minute for 6 hours a day. Amazing.)
I've read Billy Liar. And Billy Liar on the Moon.
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Post by everso on Jul 21, 2010 23:07:55 GMT
Let's make Billy Liar the next one. I love that book.
Then perhaps for Christmas "The Pickwick Papers" or "A Christmas Carol".
Sorry, am I getting a bit bossy? Of course, we should take turns suggesting books. Just so long as they're not depressing and sad.
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