h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Rich

How do you do? I noticed you were online - Have seen you this morning at CB, don't like R2-board that much. I posted (ok-silly thread) about favourite year of the 80's and Rosie-woman was being terribly off-topic. Don't bother anymore. As for the JV-board, almost got a heart attack!

I was piling books 'to read' and 'read already'.
Looking forward to Simenon, something by Dan forgothisname, writer of Da Vinci-code but other book, and re-perusal of the Quincunx (marvellous!). When I look around me, I can't seem to find people who read. Is it a pastime doomed for extinction, I wonder?

How is your garden? My grandmother has launched a theory about the misleading of some bird or other with broken eggshells strategically scattered round her courgettes. Apparently it's working
The woman is 83, but she always says if I can't work in my garden anymore, it's over for me.

Basia was great on Summerhit. Heard it on the radio. Did Get out of your lazy bed and the new single. Followed by O-zone. Bc world record switching off radio.

Hope you get the same satisfaction from reading as I do. Maybe you should become an ambassador for the written word!
Take care Rich, enjoy the fleeting hours
Time for an app

All the best,
Bc

Hi BC

The name you were struggling for was Dan Brown. I've tried a couple of his novels & thought they were both badly written. The author seems to be aiming his books at scientifically illiterate readers. Usually, a writer will create an ignorant "Dr Watson" character to ask all the stupid questions...but in Dan Brown's novels, the annoyingly ignorant character is the heroic Professor himself.

Also, if you read the amazon.com reviews of Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, particularly the one-star ratings, you will see that Dan Brown makes a lot of factual errors.

Which is why I get very annoyed when I hear someone saying "I learned so much from reading those novels" or "It doesn't matter about the errors in language & geography & science & history & theology...it's only a story!"

Nothing like a literary rant, early on a Monday morning!

Rich

PS I thought crushed eggshells on the garden keep the snails away!

Don't be mad at ignorant old me, but I actually liked the Da Vinci-code (like the cryptex-stuff).

Hey, I was wrong! Apparently she uses the eggshells to scare away - had to look this up in the dictionary - cabbage butterflies!

Glad I'm seated at last! Had my last round of mailboxes today (promised my father, all something to do with volley tournament!). I like home best, probably I'll start working next week My last job was dreadful! If the atmosphere is good, I'm happy.
Forgive me my curiosity, but do you work? I'm dead serious about winning the lottery. Don't understand why everybody says thank God I'm working, wouldn't know what to do when at home! I could read and study forever! Ah, people!

Just doing a little research for my copywriting course and then I'll read a bit, I guess. Keep Agatha Christie for bedtime (OK, literary value not that great, but I like her nevertheless!).

Most books I read I enjoyed, except Iris Murdoch I can't help thinking: she knows a thing or two about philosophy, but the way her characters act sometimes just doesn't make any sense. Glad it's over.

Rich, take care, talk to your pumpkins and they'll grow harder! Bc has spoken! Have a nice day!


Bc

Hi BC

I'm currently unemployed, hence all the time I spend in the local library.

Last week I watched a programme on the BBC4 digital channel - "Battle of the Books" in which two teams each try to persuade the studio audience that their favourite book is the best one to read. In the episode that I saw, the two books were:

The Name of the Rose, supported by comedian Kevin Day and thriller writer Sarah Dunant

vs. The da Vinci Code, supported by R2 presenter Mariella Frostrup and chef Egon Ronay!

Mariella kept complaining about the length & tediousness of the Eco novel, but fortunately her "star witness" Egon Ronay kept saying that The da Vinci Code wasn't very well written....

In the final audience vote, The Name of the Rose narrowly won.

I guess 90% of the British public hasn't even heard of The da Vinci Code, but that will change when Ron Howard's Hollywood movie version is released next year.

Rich

Hi Rich

I enjoy reading Eco, as long as I don't have to see the man. What a pompous twit!

That's the problem with work: think of all the things you could be doing when you're stuck in an office. I've only begun spending now what I earned four years ago. And I'm spending like there is no tomorrow

I'd like to be a financial 'benefactor' for young artists. Have to save a lot then

Gran was preparing veggies (practically the whole garden!) for the freezer today. Takes her mind off things (grandfather died last year).
I admire that woman, still busy busy busy

See you and take care Rich
B

Think sweet little Jen is a little paranoid about my identity.
I only post under Bc! First they thought I was Scott , then someone else, then you (I'm not sucking up, but I felt really flattered by this ).

Have a nice evening bookworm

Bc