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Post by housesparrow on Apr 12, 2011 19:51:21 GMT
Have you lot never heard of Modern Classics?  (Not that that one is suitable for really young children.) Jean, if a book published in the 1920s is a "modern classic" that rather reinforces my view that 1950s writers are rooled out. |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 12, 2011 20:08:08 GMT
The horse that tries goes longest to the well, as the English proverb so sagely remarks.  Sorry, my esteemed and ridiculous Housesparrow. It's the kind of thing that Hurree Jamset Ram Singh, the Indian boy out of the Billy Bunter stories was always saying. Calling people esteemed and ridiculous was another one of his habits. |
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Post by housesparrow on Apr 12, 2011 20:24:20 GMT
Oh yes, I remember the character though I'd forgotten his name but yes, he was funny.
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Post by jean on Apr 12, 2011 21:45:09 GMT
Jean, if a book published in the 1920s is a "modern classic" that rather reinforces my view that 1950s writers are rooled out. I thought of that objection after I'd posted - this one is 1957  (A classic? Bond??) |
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Post by Weyland on Apr 12, 2011 22:03:06 GMT
Hell no. Fleming was a crap writer. On the other hand, Connery is Classic Bond. "You're a shyte, M. For shore eyezh." . . . I'll get me cummerbund. |
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