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Nobody's Favourite Book...
...is a parody. That's not the conclusion to any kind of rigorous scientific analysis, so I might be wrong (and if I am, I would guess that the fantastic Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons has a good chance of being the exception to my speculative rule), but parodies are odd beasts, usually parasitic things aiming for cheap laughs at the expense of something many people like. So why did I write o
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"A quick, lovely read. Brought me back to Dali and beautifully captures the soul (and taste!) of the place. "
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The film better than the book? Inconceivable! But indeed, very much so; in which case it joins the ranks of Planet of the Apes (1968) and How to Train
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| Promised much, delivered rather less. Great prose, great characters, and great premise, though one explored before in Iron Council by China Miéville, to which this surely owes a debt (and also in a brief initial scene in Joan Aiken's The Wolves of Wi ...more | |
“The troll’s tones were rough, his vowels most uncul-tured, the whole tenor of his speech was slovenly and un-educated to a degree far worse than any rustic peasant might employ: in fact, to Rambo’s ears, the accent might even belong to that most awful of entities â€� a town!”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“The only one not partaking of the general merriment was Rambo.
“But,� he said, with more than a hint of bewilderment in his voice, “do you mean to say that this secret door only opens on one day a year, and then only at sunset? I don’t pretend to know much about these things, but surely it would be easier to have a door one might access at any time? The builders can never have known when it might have been needed. It all seems a little odd.�
The dwarves� smiles faded a little; Thorny frowned.
“No, no. Not odd at all,â€� Grendelf replied. He leant forwards, bushy brows bristling. “Not at all odd.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“But,� he said, with more than a hint of bewilderment in his voice, “do you mean to say that this secret door only opens on one day a year, and then only at sunset? I don’t pretend to know much about these things, but surely it would be easier to have a door one might access at any time? The builders can never have known when it might have been needed. It all seems a little odd.�
The dwarves� smiles faded a little; Thorny frowned.
“No, no. Not odd at all,â€� Grendelf replied. He leant forwards, bushy brows bristling. “Not at all odd.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND, there lived a dwarf.
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“IN A HOLE IN THE GROUND, there lived a dwarf.
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
The hole was a nasty, damp, foul-smelling pit hacked out of a pile of slag on a barren mountainside, but dwarves are not averse to roughing it, and to this particular dwarf the hole was Home.”
― The Robbit: Or Turned Out Nice Again
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
― Master & Commander
― Master & Commander
“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”
― Thirteen
― Thirteen
“Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.”
― Broken Angels
― Broken Angels
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