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I just typed 'pubicaddress.net' into the URL field by accident (no, really!) and while there are photos of furry things, they are perfectly SFW.
Maybe that's old news, but it tickled my fancy...
And this is not a 'made you look' scenario. Trust me ;-)
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Jasper Fforde is totally excellent. His 'audience participation Shakespeare' got read aloud to my partner in its entirety.
Yes. We need a literary detective agency, and on current form, Jolisa can head it up. The Chesire Cat is ffantastic ;-)
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Hey New Zealand, you're quite neat
A rugby team only France can beat
A small contribution to rising heat
God! Kumara is nice to eat.Got to admit it is quite sweet
Despite our stinky jandalled feet
We deserve an occasional treat
Cos we live in New Zeeeeeealand.Don't dream it's over
Whilst we still have the pavlova
Lets us all sing a song of joy
For Sir Ed and Susan DevoyWe think we were the first to fly
And we're stuck with P to get us high
We must always blow on the piiiiiiiiiiie...
Hamilton has Geoff Lea-ea-landFrom dissension*, envy, hate
Ladies, please bring a plate
Men a bottle, don't be late!
This arvo in our free-ee land!Every newborn a buzzy bee.
Keep our nation nuclear free!
Day at the beach and a baaaar-bee.
Ao-te-a-ro-ha.**
So rally round our nations bus*
and don't you make a bloody fuss
'cause Dobbo and some clever Finn
will bring us home with cheery grin.If we just get used to coming second
we'll all be sweet, I reckon!
Sod the rest, New Zeeeealand.*Athiest
**Lets blow it out our nations butt
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Books of the year.
It's a bit difficult to be too pedantic about the publishing date (well I'm not the rule maker, but I found it difficult), so can we be a bit vague on that?
Tim Winton Breath. A book that made me want to know more about 'The Australian Psyche', which was an uncomfortable place.
Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed. Heavy, but illuminating.
Iain Pears Stone's Fall. When he writes this type of novel, he is one of the cleverest buggers writing today, IMhO.
Kate Degoldi The 10PM Question. As covered earlier.The Library is in disarray, and books get borrowed, which I have to say is not something I'm very good at. I'm prone to say things like 'this book is not for borrowing' when I feel particularly attached to them. So more might follow.
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I'm a bit of a pluralist though - Books of the Year sounds good to me. I can never have just one :-)
Agreed. I find pluralism is essential where books are concerned. You'd end up in a 'genre crisis' for a start.
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A thought.
Given we have voted on the "Word of the year', and in light of the literary prowess of the PA writers, and the erudite contributions of the discussion bunnies (Hahemmm!)(Timaru), what about a 'Book of the year' vote? In general I find it quite difficult to find people to talk about books, and this thread has reminded me how much I enjoy it.
Someone mentioned a 'bookish' forum starting. Maybe the 'Book of the year' could launch it?
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I have pretty low expectations of the film, which is not surprising considering I didn't think much of the book.
I confess I haven't read it. Too much on the pile already. Ben Elton's Meltdown at the moment. Then I'm off into The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. That's a bit off topic, but relevant in that I want to read it before the film hype gets the better of me.
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I've been meaning to reread that one. I read it in Japan and remember finishing it with tears pouring over the pages. No book had done that to me since Charlotte's Web, and I certainly didn't expect that one to. But it did.
Yes. The helplessness conveyed in the court seen towards the end is one of the more gut wrenching bits of fiction I can recall. It would make a great film, but then only if a great film was made of it, which, as it turns out, is not guaranteed.
Although I quite liked Peter Jackson's comments about the respective roles of the film-maker and the author in respect to The Lovely Bones, even if I sensed a 'hidden' message there.
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I also read Maurice Shadbolt's Season of the Jew, and I really don't want to start anything, but in conjunction with seeing Vincent Ward's Rain of the Children, this was one of the more significant New Zealand books I've read.
Possibly they struck a chord because they are both about the area I grew up in. Not at all sure what the 'popular opinion' is on Maurice Shadbolt, but it spoke volumes to me, and hopefully was 'authentic'.
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I loved 'The 10pm Question' by Kate de Goldi - my favourite book of the year.
Seconded. It cut to the core of so many aspects of 'New Zilland', IMhO.