Anyone else agree or should I stop putting LSD on my cornflakes?
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 22 March 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Bunged Out (Jake Proudlock), Monday, 22 March 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 22 March 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago) link
Still reckon I'm right, mind.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:59 (twenty years ago) link
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― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 10:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Chrales Dodgson walks among us.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
CHubby RAndy LESbians
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I dread to think what people who read books on a quim use as a bookmark.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 26 July 2004 07:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Sunday, 1 August 2004 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 August 2004 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
What I liked about it were the details of having Aspergers and the way the specific internal logic of Christopher's needs etc was described. And watching the fairly standard troubled marriage/family plot unfold through the eyes of someone who understands things totally differently kind of elevated the story, for me.
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 August 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
RING ROAD reminded me of Hornby, early on, though it is far better. Miller, you might like RING ROAD. It is by Ian "Not Kenny" Sansom.
― the pomefox, Monday, 2 August 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
I will check out RING ROAD. Yesterday I learned that Peter Barnes once played for Real Betis.
I don't particularly like Hornby, I'm just jealous of his ability to make himself socially acceptable to such vast numbers of people*. I suspect he is a total freak in real life (re: FEVER PITCH). I couldn't read HOW TO BE GOOD though.
* My theory is: gaggle of editors ironing out all signs of... erm... unconventionality**.
** I don't suppose it's true though.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 2 August 2004 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Did you mind the index?
I don't find Hornby (socially?) acceptable.
I am looking forward to Sister Disco reading RING ROAD.
― the ringfox, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― the pinefox, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 08:10 (nineteen years ago) link
"It has been suggested that [Mark Haddon's] models for the novel were 'Catcher in the Rye' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' The three have some common ground as books about young outsiders, but, he said, the novel he had in mind when writing was actually 'Pride and Prejudice.'
"'Jane Austen writes about people with desperately restricted lives and codified by iron rules,' he said. 'The first thing she does is to choose a genre, the romantic novel, which is exactly the kind of book those women would read if they were reading books. It clicked: that's what I had to do with Christopher. I had read too many books and seen too many films where a person with a disability was seen from the outside. If I was going to treat him with complete empathy, I had to hand him the reins, make him tell the story, but make it the book he would read.'"
― nory (nory), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Saturday, 9 October 2004 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link