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hi guys, Calvino is one of my favourites, if on a winters night.... is one of his good works, other favourites of mine include: "Marco Valdo", "Invisible cities", "cosmicomics" and "mr. Palomar", for any budding writers out there "six memos for the new millenia" would make productive reading...

hell yes i think we should definately be exploring space. not because we've crapped out on this planet but because it's part of the human psyche to be always testing our boundaries. sure that money spent could be better spent on world poverty, the environment - whatever. but my first port of...

seperate entities maybe now but quacks would have you believe that once we were all crushed together in a tiny particle which then decided to explode. when did it decide to explode - nobody knows because time hadn't been invented. kskyhappy

p vs r i agree with the no religion and no politics rule, as you can't change people's minds on these points and any attempt seems to start a war! what about philosophy - lol kskyhappy

thank god! mile i agree with you, not to put anybody down - we all like to have fun! a chatroom would probably do wonders for this site. I like to debate, thats part of the reason i sought a book forum out, i'm getting rusty. i thought not edna was interesting - if a little frustrated (lol...

slurp strawberry lemonade sounds nice! ksky

on another note... there are also publishers whose lists i find hard to ignore. i don't know if these two are still going but i felt safe reading anything by Harvill press and Rebel Inc. i heard Harvill got bought out - thats a shame - they produced commodious books. and i'd never have...

okay then beer: guinness, budweiser, sainsbury's micro brewed raspberry wheat beer, nastro, waggledance honey beer, double chocolate stout Mixed shorts: Gin and tonic(bombay sapphire), Cranberry and vodka(citrus absolut) cocktails: seabreeze, long island ice tea, and something else whose...

i agree funny but many are not true oxymorons, a true oxymoron is a false prophet. (btw i don't mean that literally - though it almost works!!) ksky

penguins my forbush i presume? following the penguin theme - have you read "death and the penguin" by Andrey kurkov it's a great novel and a sequel has just come out. ksky

question how do you make the hot sauce that goes with the popular tapas dish "patatas bravas"? ksky

wow so mile you're not just a pretty face! really good critique, i guess i have to write the next bit soon so you can see where it's going - but you're right about the inter-action thing. the character will get more involved with his "observations" when he tries to get a job. "Isn't it...

wasp factory interested to see what you think of the wasp factory? not read it for a while but the mood of it is still with me, if you know what i mean. ksky

what? what you got? lol ksky

purple jello i like to sit on warm enema's shoulders yelling "yee-haw" whilst he's doing the above and alternatley dispensing badges to onlookers that read "slap me i'm a non-participant in life" ksky

hmm thanks guys, thanks ashlea, i know the piece is a bit disjointed as i only gave myself half a lunch break to write it, i want to revisit it before going on however, as i don't think it established place strong enough for me, or the behaviour of the birds which i think was meant to be a...

cold mountain the Nicole Kidman(keep focus) film cold mountain is based on Charles Frazier's book of the same name. quite a best seller. never read it though. ksky

lol lol lol walk theeeeese waay! talk theeeeeeese waay! i liked the version with Run DMC. ksky

fickleness is as fickleness does i find that you need the right book for the right mood, hence i've always got a good stock of what i might need to hand. Alice Sebald - hmm don't rememebr that name, i'll have to go browsing! ksky

bookmarks my favourite book mark was a laminated one with flowers in it than an author hand made and gave to the audience at an event, can't remember her name she wrote a book that had something to do with bees, she was in fiction A-C - doh. However that book mark has gone missing in action and...