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Post by housesparrow on Jul 22, 2010 7:44:52 GMT
I'm ashamed to report that I've never read the Pickwick Papers, so I'd love to do that one. If I start after Three Men in a Boat I might have finished it by the end of the Christmas hols...I'm a slow reader!
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Post by Patrick on Jul 22, 2010 7:59:10 GMT
A new (there's a surprise) discount book shop has just opened up locally. They have copies 3MIAB for £2.99.
I'll still get it from the library though.
It doesn't have a very snappy start does it?
Perhaps we ought to read "Boogie up the River" at the same time as an antedote!
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 22, 2010 9:31:12 GMT
Was that by Mark Wallender or some such person- Boogie being his dog? I can remember reading it and thinking it was a kind of 3MIAB type book.
He also wrote about talking him on a 300 mile walk. It was entertaining.
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Post by Patrick on Jul 22, 2010 10:21:00 GMT
Nearly! ;D "Mark Wallington" - 500 Mile Walkies was his first. Walking round the South West Coastal Path. Very inspirational. The next adventure with Boogie - was "Boogie Up the River" which was inspired by 3MIAB and "Pennine Walkies" Though I can't remember which way round they were. Then he did one called "Destination Lapland" where was supposed to be Cycling up Britain to Scandinavia - this book inspired a fictional work "The Missing Postman". About a postie who on his last day before retirement, decides on his last day to deliver by hand every letter that he empties from his last post box. It's a bit lightweight, but enjoyable netherless.
New programme on BBC4 worth a look has Clare Balding Cycling around Britain - very much in the vein of Portillo using Bradshaw's Guides, she too is using a Cycling guide that came out in the 1950's. Ms Balding is more likeable on this than she is on other programmes I'm pleased to say. Though their is still not much tangling of that plastic hair of hers!
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 26, 2010 14:23:35 GMT
I'm really not enjoying 3 men and the boat thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2010 16:29:35 GMT
we should do a book club where we all try n write a book. that would be better.
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Post by everso on Jul 26, 2010 22:55:54 GMT
I'm really not enjoying 3 men and the boat thing. Now I feel bad. I've made you all read it and some of you don't like it. Damn. Try Billy Liar. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2010 22:57:33 GMT
don't worry Everso, i didnt bother with it.. i did watch 3 men and a baby the other week on channel 5 thou, if anyone would like to discuss that?
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Post by everso on Jul 26, 2010 23:01:30 GMT
By the way, the book Billy Liar is miles better than the film.
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Post by housesparrow on Jul 27, 2010 6:00:42 GMT
I'm quite enjoying Three Men and a Boat, although knowing that we all have to find something to say about it does put a bit of pressure on.
Also I had to skip the bit abut Uncle Podger because his attempts at DIY are too painfully like mine.
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Post by aubrey on Jul 27, 2010 9:44:06 GMT
I like the way he will do a "Romance" (old - real - meaning) bit, like the Magna Carta section, and you're waiting for a joke, that doesn't come. And then he will do a lot - I remember pages of it - about something like the romance of camping; then "What if it rains," said George. Just like George. No soul. Still, we had to admit that he had a point. (or something like that)
And the casual asides, like, George goes to sleep at a bank; but on Saturdays they wake him up and bung him out at 1, so we arranged to meet at, etc
(This remembering from my last reading, a few years ago now.)
I used to have and may still have an old penguin edition with I think old Punch illustrations; and the picture on the last page of Old Father Thames always sent me off happy.
Yes; but the film is still great, as is the film of Whistle Down The Wind.
Don't you think it's odd that the cockney wide-boy genre (of which I can only think of Minder as an example, though I'm sure there are more) was started by a pair of Yorkshiremen, who also wrote Billy Liar and Whistle Down The Wind. They wrote Budgie, starrring Adam Faith (and from where I got the name that a lot of people still call me; I even - still - have one person doing the Charlie Endell "Errr Budgie" whenever we meet).
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Post by everso on Jul 27, 2010 14:22:44 GMT
I always enjoyed Keith Waterhouse in the Mail and Billy Liar is one of my top ten books. The film, as you say, is funny too, but not (IMHO) as good as the book.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 28, 2010 12:14:28 GMT
Still struggling through 3 Men. Although last night I gave up and read the National Enquirer instead, which was, actually, far more interesting.
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Post by everso on Jul 28, 2010 16:27:56 GMT
 Sorry you haven't enjoyed it, Riot. Billy Liar's good though. ;D
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 29, 2010 11:03:10 GMT
If I was to read a book about "three men in a boat", they would have to be lost at sea after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat or something. And I'd expect at least one of them to have really bad wounds and have to be dispatched with an oar or such like.
AH
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 29, 2010 11:06:25 GMT
If I was to read a book about "three men in a boat", they would have to be lost at sea after being torpedoed by a German U-Boat or something. And I'd expect at least one of them to have really bad wounds and have to be dispatched with an oar or such like. AH Well these three men don't seem to be doing anything like that, and, from what I've read, there are no signs they are going to either. I'm going to be honest here . . I've given up on the book. Sorry my friends. I read another chapter last night and enjoyed it so little that I shut the book and threw it across the room. They woke up, and one of them went for a swim. Another one's shirt fell in the water and got wet. I can see that it's meant to be a charming romp, a reminder of lost youth, all that. I'm afraid it's just not for me. I'll wait to see how everyone else gets on with it, and then, I guess, we move on to the next book. BTW, Trubble has disappeared again. I think we should get up a fund to buy her a decent laptop so that we can keep hold of her. It's always more fun when Trubble is around! |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jul 29, 2010 11:50:50 GMT
They woke up, and one of them went for a swim. Another one's shirt fell in the water and got wet. Meh, it's hardly Captain Bligh's epic 47 day voyage in a 20ft boat with no proper charts or navigation equipment after being mutineed against by that rotter Fletcher Christian is it? The author could've at least thrown in a shark attack or something...this 3 men in a boring boat sounds like it could do with a total re-write if you ask me.  I agree.  AH |
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Post by Weyland on Jul 29, 2010 12:27:43 GMT
BTW, Trubble has disappeared again. I think we should get up a fund to buy her a decent laptop so that we can keep hold of her. It's always more fun when Trubble is around! Tell me about it. Me and Al have been carrying PhotoFit ..er.. single-handed for ages. As usual, unsung Geordie lads doing all the work. Please -- get over there on the double and solve the new Mystery Object. |
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Post by riotgrrl on Jul 29, 2010 12:39:02 GMT
BTW, Trubble has disappeared again. I think we should get up a fund to buy her a decent laptop so that we can keep hold of her. It's always more fun when Trubble is around! Tell me about it. Me and Al have been carrying PhotoFit ..er.. single-handed for ages. As usual, unsung Geordie lads doing all the work. Please -- get over there on the double and solve the new Mystery Object. I don't tend to play that game; I'm not very good at it. Betty was big on it iirc. Where is she also? Since she got married she's just done a runner! But I've been keeping an eye on Photofit of course. You've put up some great photos recently. I like the kind you do more than the close-ups of flowers/insects/technical ones. I just haven't done any good shoots recently to share. I did another Glasgow one recently, but it didn't turn out very well. Then I did a mini-Paisley one at the weekend, but the spirit wasn't in me properly and I didn't get a good set that I want to share. |
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Post by Weyland on Jul 29, 2010 12:54:31 GMT
But I've been keeping an eye on Photofit of course. You've put up some great photos recently. I like the kind you do more than the close-ups of flowers/insects/technical ones. Thank you. You say the nicest things sometimes. I like your street scenes. Get them up. (Never said that to a lady before.) |
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