Posts by hamishm
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the gravy site is not as intuitive as it could be
I have applied for a gravy sign and it has been granted to my e-mail address. How long before it turns up? About 20 hours have gone by now.
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Fever pitch is good, I love the bit with the marzipan mice that turn into a pre-match ritual.
Incidentally Salman Rushdie wrote a great essay about being a fan in a book called Crossing the Line, sadly it was of Tottenham but there you go.
Which reminds me that the initial pages of Midnights Children
are stunningly good. Like fireworks.The rest is not so invigorating but good all the same. -
The Worst Journey in the World, by Appsley Cherry-Garrard
That's a good book, The depression that Cherry- Garrad entered at the end of his life was a terrible shame.
Poetry : John Cooper-Clarke, Sam Hunt, Auden and Frost do it for me.
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Aha! Because you only read Stranger in a Strange Land? It's been a long time but I remember thinking that one was like it was written by someone else entirely
No I tried some others. I have heard that comment about SSL from others and I think that my lack of grokking is a character fault of mine.
Willard Price taught me that to escape drowning when caught by a giant clam when the tide is rising, one must saw off one's own foot.
Crikey! Science Fiction writer John Varley, I think, taught me that when your arm is trapped under a large boulder on the moon one should freeze it with liquid oxygen and then smash it off with a spanner. You then have to grow another one.
I wonder if you should buy a goat to distract the boa constrictor? I seem to remember something from "Amazon Adventure"... -
Asterix is a favourite for me too. E.E.'Doc' Smith was pretty good. "The Lensmen" series in particular.
I read the Willard Price books as well and thus learned that the male Lion roars only after feeding, knowlege that has saved my life on many occasions.
Have to say that I have never grokked Heinlein. I can appreciate his impact but I find him very hard work.
A recently discovered BIG impact book has been "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate" by Margaret Mahy- now that's literature.
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The "William" books by Richmal Crompton influenced me as a child, even upto adolescence and it is still nice to read them. I had a chance to re-read some "Uncle' books and wished that I hadn't, should have left the memories alone
Then Maurice Gee, Witi Ihimaera and Maurice Shadbolt got me into the home product. Elizabeth Knoxed my socks off with "The Vintners Luck"
Most recently it has been that man Hoban and in particular "Riddley Walker" which have inspired me. Riddley is like a book long cryptic crossword and yet a good story as well.
Couldn't finish without a mention of the good Doctor Asimov who got me into the Science fiction stuff with the first 3 "Foundation" books. -
Now weare coming to the curse roads of it Erny now weare getting down to terpitation.
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Mckrakenista is right. Normally curved?
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Readers of Riddley Walker
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So that we avoid "when Littl Salting Fents got largent in by Dog Et Form"
Nice to make contact with a sharer of the knowlege. Are you a Krakenista?