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Post by amipal on Sept 21, 2019 14:10:26 GMT
You've seen them, the rappers, the rap singers. On the Top Of The Pops. They're on the on a lot of the adverts now. It might be a sausage, or some wool or something, and there'll be a rap about it, about how good the sausage is.
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 21, 2019 15:33:42 GMT
You've seen them, the rappers, the rap singers. On the Top Of The Pops. They're on the on a lot of the adverts now. It might be a sausage, or some wool or something, and there'll be a rap about it, about how good the sausage is. You're just jealous of their sausage ... I just wish they would store it somewhere other than where they used to store their cod. |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 21, 2019 15:52:27 GMT
The Guardian top 100 books list is up. The comments section is even more of a car crash than the games one. Four books, I have read four of those books (well, three actually - I'm reading Sapiens at the moment). :edit They are: Night Watch Persepolis Oryx & Crake Three... the description of so many of those books starts with "An examination ..." So much of my life is "An examination e.g. of my arse..." I understand why my reading or rather listening ("An examination of my eyes...") is outside of this list. I do want to read / listen to one or two vis Wolf Hall* and Sapiens. *Not least to compare it to Tracy Borman's excellent Thomas Cromwell.  |
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Post by Felice Landry on Sept 21, 2019 16:03:48 GMT
Since we're recommending books, this is good, vol 2 out next Feb  |
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Post by Destry on Sept 21, 2019 16:05:37 GMT
The Guardian top 100 books list is up. The comments section is even more of a car crash than the games one. I haven't read any of them, Though my younger daughter loved Philip Pullman as a child. I remember one time she was in hospital suffering from some debilitating and life threatening illness I can't remember the name of. (It had a lot of xs and zs in it) She was lying motionless in a hospital bed with lots of tubes 'n' stuff, so in a fit of parental concern I went to Waterstones and bought the His Dark Materials trilogy. I wasn't sure she could hear me but I began to read Northern Lights to her. When I got to the part of the novel where Lyra's best friend Roger goes missing, presumed kidnapped by mysterious child abductors she suddenly sat up in bed and shouted "Fuck off you Gobblers" I have never been so happy / proud /surprised / embarrassed * * delete where not applicable. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 21, 2019 16:24:21 GMT
The Guardian top 100 books list is up. The comments section is even more of a car crash than the games one. I haven't read any of them, Though my younger daughter loved Philip Pullman as a child. I remember one time she was in hospital suffering from some debilitating and life threatening illness I can't remember the name of. (It had a lot of xs and zs in it) She was lying motionless in a hospital bed with lots of tubes 'n' stuff, so in a fit of parental concern I went to Waterstones and bought the His Dark Materials trilogy. I wasn't sure she could hear me but I began to read Northern Lights to her. When I got to the part of the novel where Lyra's best friend Roger goes missing, presumed kidnapped by mysterious child abductors she suddenly sat up in bed and shouted "Fuck off you Gobblers" I have never been so happy / proud /surprised / embarrassed * * delete where not applicable. You nailed the format, but you are posting far too late in the day for a Guardian Pick. Get up earlier next time. |
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 21, 2019 16:56:06 GMT
Our for dinner.
Baked rigatoni. It's very nice.
The child thinks so too and apparently prefers mine to her choice. 4 stars.
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Post by Faceless on Sept 21, 2019 16:56:25 GMT
I have read 6 books from that list. That's ok though; it's clearly a list for casual readers, as most of the books on there are beneath my vast intalekt.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Sept 21, 2019 17:00:38 GMT
Books are for children and the mentally feeble.
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Post by Destry on Sept 21, 2019 17:03:04 GMT
I was surprised to see that Steve Bruce's Striker was not on the list. But then I realised it was published in 1999 and was, probably, number 1 in the Top 100 best books of the 20th Century list. |
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 21, 2019 17:16:44 GMT
Books are for children and the mentally feeble. I take it you bookshop was on the other side of the road...  Don't lose hope, one day the traffic will stop... |
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 21, 2019 17:24:09 GMT
I have read 19 of them and own 2I haven't yet read.
I don't get the mixing if fiction and non-fiction on one list.
I'd rather have two lists of 50 each.
I thought Sapiens was mostly bollocks. Sub Jared Diamond.
Not as clever as the author thinks he is.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 21, 2019 17:27:48 GMT
Also no Alastair Reynolds, Neal Stephenson or Philip Kerr
I mean seriously this is the 21st century, not the Bronte parlour.
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 21, 2019 17:38:48 GMT
The Guardian top 100 books list is up. The comments section is even more of a car crash than the games one. That was predictable. I thought that the games list was much better thought out, although Keef had a very selective reading of the criticism in the comments. He completely ignored the many comments pointing out that neither strategy games nor JRPGs had representation and that fighting games were fobbed off with Super Smash Bros. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 21, 2019 17:40:32 GMT
Oh, and as far as the best books are concerned, apparently 86 out of 100 were written in English.
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Post by Sheep2 on Sept 21, 2019 17:41:41 GMT
I'd also include The Three Body Problem.
Q by Luther Blisset
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear
For non-fiction Jonathan Sumption's Hundred Year War,
The Rise And Fall of the Dinosaurs
Stung by Lisa Ann Gershwin
There was a fantastic book on sharks I ca remembee the title of as well
* technically it is badly written and repetitive. But it is somehow still a brilliant book
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 21, 2019 17:57:43 GMT
There goes Sheep2; so irritated that his fingers can't keep up: Dionsaurs died out because they forgot how to spell...
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Post by Faceless on Sept 21, 2019 18:14:57 GMT
I'm not going anywhere near the comments. Book nerds are the fucking worst. Right up there with film nerds and gaming nerds.
The Three Body Problem should definitely be on there though. I was also expecting to see that other book. You know the one.
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Post by Felice Landry on Sept 21, 2019 18:22:26 GMT
I do enough reading in RPGs, who has the time for books?
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Post by RollingEscargot on Sept 21, 2019 18:23:07 GMT
I agree that the scattering of non fiction doesnt make much sense. I have not read Sapiens but I have read the sequel Homo Deus and it was certainly bollocks. Malcolm Gladwell is a total chancer, and Postwar by Tony Judt is virtually unreadable. Where the hell is Andy McNab?
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 21, 2019 19:36:17 GMT
Print is dead.
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Post by tenthenemy on Sept 21, 2019 19:45:29 GMT
Another job complete, huh? |
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Post by MrTiddles on Sept 21, 2019 20:09:02 GMT
I'd just like to put this out there for BiggieSmalla and all the fallen bloggies. Every empty chair in that stadium represents a blogger who has fallen in the call of duty. RIP BiggieSmalla, and thanks for the cash in your wallet and the watch.
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Post by Chumbles on Sept 21, 2019 20:33:21 GMT
 ...give them ideas - I mean if you leave something printed around, someone might even start thinking for themselves. That's why we started by closing the libraries ... |
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Post by crankcaller on Sept 21, 2019 20:42:50 GMT
I've got a lovely hardback of Fahrenheit 451.
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