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Tony Curtis - My Story

Any good?

I'm reading The Tony Curtis Scripts.

TC

Most enjoyable

You should try The Tony Curtis edition of the Bible

I'm reading "Tony Curtis - My Part In His Downfall"

Anyone reading Life, The Universe, And Tony Curtis?

RF

I'm still reading So Long and Thanks for Tony Curtis

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I have a bedside table book (or books - currently, 'Star Dragon' by Mark Brotherton and 'Agrippina' by Anthony someone) and a carry-around-with me book 'SPQR, the Catiline Conspiracy - for reading at bus-stops) and a book for the living room during the day or in the evening - currently the aforementioned 'Spokeh Nere' which is brilliant!

I always have an upstairs and a downstairs book.

Upstairs is still the Adventure of English (which I might finish today, since i'm off sick) and downstairs is Sharpe's Tiger. I wanted something light that I like and have read before.

Sho - life is too short for LOTR. there are too many other *good* books out there . (And Lady Chatterly isn't Lawrence's best, either)

Currently reading 'Wild Swans' by Jung Chang. My wife just finished it and raved about it. I'm rather impressed so far!

This weekend I finished 'The Surgeon's Mate' by Patrick O'Brian. I'd vowed not to read any more of his (twenty volume!!!) series - but the story carries you along and I want to know what happens to Aubrey and Maturin next. Anyway...as it happened, Oxfam had 'The Ionian Mission'...

I also bought something else, but buggered if I can remember just now.

without apologies I will continue my almost inevitable yearly descent into Middle Earth. I've done it since I was 12.

I can stop any time I like.

Wild Swans - I've been wanting to read that for ages and ages. As for DH Lawrence, I preferred Sons & Lovers, but I'm not really a fan of his. But I have a lot of books here that I have only read once and can't really remember them, so I'm re-reading.

After LOTR I think it will be some Thomas Kenalley (sp?) I really liked Bring Larks and Heroes, and it will fit in nicely with my Sharpe obsession.

So, can you recite LOTR yet? You must know the story better than Tolkein did!

recite -nope
quote rather large bits of it - unfortunately, yes.

However, I don't read the appendices every time, and I often skip over the Tom Bombadill/Old Man Willow poop
and some of the Frodo/Sam bits which really annoy me

It depends. This time I'm really going to have a good look at Faramir, because I don't like him much.

So many words...so little content!

Wild Swans is very good. I read it ages ago, and still remember vividly a lot of it. It opened up a whole new world for me.

*refuses to get drawn into the LOTR debate*

Dorothy Parker once said 'This book should not be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.'

But LOTR is too damned heavy!

Three months of my teenage life wasted when I could have been.......(insert your own joke here).

I think you were getting bogged down in the detail. First time I read it I knew it was going to be a monster, so I whipped through in about 2 weeks, then waited a month then read it again, more slowly.

of course, by then I was hooked...

>>I think you were getting bogged down in the detail

Ah, right. That would have been as opposed to taking in the grand, sweeping themes or getting carried along by the rhythm of the language.

Luckily it was around that time that I discovered literature instead. Amongst other things

i wanted to readgone with the wind again but its in doncaster!


may have to read something else. possibly the billy connely book.

Doncaster? I thought it was in Atlanta!