Quote: David Chapman @ August 14 2008, 2:16 PM BSTYeah - but don't tell Finck.
Habib: Sir, if Holmes and Watson are lovers, so what? Is there anything wrong with that?
Fowler: Yes, constable, there is! Because sex plays no part in these stories whatsoever, hetro or otherwise! The point of Biggles and of Sherlock Holmes is to solve crimes and kill Germans, and by heavens, that should be enough for any man!
Quote: sootyj @ August 14 2008, 2:19 PM BSTI used to love Warlord.
Charley's war was one of the greatest comics ever.
Charley's War has been issued in at least 3 hardback volumes. I keep meaning to get them.
Quote: David Chapman @ August 14 2008, 2:23 PM BSTCharley's War
War against what? Decency? She seems to be winning.
Quote: Aaron @ August 14 2008, 2:27 PM BSTWar against what? Decency? She seems to be winning.
As soon as I saw the spelling I did wonder!
Quote: JohnnyD @ August 14 2008, 4:10 PM BSTRe:Barry Cryer
Just reading the Script of 'Expresso Bongo' musical play. First produced in 1958 with Barry Cryer playin a 'hep-cat' called Beast.In his first scene he says:
"We're going to have to get a new washboard."
That wouldn't mean anything to these youngsters. A bit before my time even!
Quote: Griff @ August 14 2008, 2:01 PM BSTI'll be alright if I ever move to Discworld.
I'd hang around with Rincewind, but would probably have to move to Ankh Lesspork.
Quote: David Chapman @ August 14 2008, 4:16 PM BST
That wouldn't mean anything to these youngsters. A bit before my time even!
Is it like "'Ere, where's me washboard?"
I know that one!
Quote: ian_w @ August 14 2008, 5:25 PM BSTI'd hang around with Rincewind, but would probably have to move to Ankh Lesspork.
Is it like "'Ere, where's me washboard?"
I wonder what instruments you could mock-up using modern household-appliances.
Well really you could just bang on anything.
Quote: ian_w @ August 14 2008, 5:50 PM BSTWell really you could just bang on anything.
Like your head? What sort of noise would that make?
Quote: David Chapman @ August 14 2008, 5:57 PM BSTLike your head? What sort of noise would that make?
Like a glockenspiel.
The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill. It's a bit rubbish.
Quote: David Chapman @ August 14 2008, 4:16 PM BSTThat wouldn't mean anything to these youngsters. A bit before my time even!
If you remember the Fifties, you're dead.
History will confirm The Fifties as the 'decade that changed the world forever'. Not the overrated Sixties.
I would quite like to have lived in the Fifties. On topic, I've just finished 'Tender is the Night', and am wondering if I'd be able to finish Jekyll and Hyde before my other Fitzgeralds come and I want to read those...
Quote: sootyj @ August 14 2008, 2:13 PM BSTEverything Kuntz writes is like a watered down version of King for nervous readers with ulcers.
Except the Odd Thomas books, they're ace.
Except I'm on 4 and it's all gone a bit soggy.
I have a rather tired perception of Stephen King, I've never read one of his books but the mere fact that he has so many proves to me he mostly likely churns out quantity rather than quality.
I've read some recent reviews dissing some of his latest work too.
And the movies sucked balls.