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The commentators didn't have a clue he was - although the cameras fixed on him a couple of times

I was brought up on Under Milk Wood. I took it to primary school once when we had to talk about the books we were reading, gave my teacher a bit of a shock. :lolol: My father used to do a one-man Dylan Thomas show, so I got used to him rehearsing that. I still have a recording of it, so any...

Schrodinger's Jesus?

Yeah, that's the one I mentioned that is really dull. Try The Pickwick Papers first, that's a really light read (and his first big hit)

This has been a really interesting thread - despite three of my favourite writers (Dickens, Hardy and Joyce) featuring prominently. A few surprises though. Amazed at the mentions for Catch 22, a very funny book that grabs you from the first line and, as mentioned, surprised to see Candide...

He was a copper in The Jetty too, I keep wondering whether he's going to throw a kettle over a pub

I'm not sure how anyone can be defeated by Candide: it's very funny and very short - there are NSC threads that have a longer word count than Candide For stating such an opinion, perhaps Seagull should be banned, pour encourager les autres. :lolol:

But that's the point of writing surely? Any detective story could be summarised as A killed B, detective C found out how and why. The End. George Orwell is excellent on this. His essay on Dickens is well worth a read. He explains how Dickens can take a simple story, first told by the ancient...

I think this is it. And I think it particularly applies to London clubs: Arsenal and Chelsea (Tottenham, not so much). These two seem to attract a bunch of entitled whiners - most of whom seem to know very little about football but want the kudos of being attached to a successful club. Anything...

That's the end of the book. So when you say you gave up, you read 99% of it :lolol:

I don't know about football but in rugby that's exactly what it is. I actually asked on my ref's course how many offences before I take action and the course giver said "That's entirely up to you". It's stressed over again that as a ref you are in sole charge of what happens on the field and a...

You got lucky - it's the most harrowing end of a book I've ever read.

We had to read it for uni - I don't blame them in the slightest

I'll guess at Derbyshire and Leicestershire

I've tried reading Tristram Shandy about five or six times and have got past a dozen pages. I've finally given my copy to the charity shop as I've realised I'm going to do it. I couldn't read Pynchon's Mason Dixon either - even though I like a lot of his books. And I couldn't finish A...

It's on the Notts site, with highlights too. I see Frankie faced 13 balls and hit 5 fours - that's the Frankie I remember. Hope he has a great winter and puts himself back on the club's radar

Yeah, we do the same. My schedule is normally a nice seat for one opera and stand for one or two more (standing tickets are amazing value). I didn't go this year as I thought the programme was absolute pony but next year's looks awesome and I may have to fork out for two operas.

There's a wonderful Bach choir in St Gallen, I keep planning to pay it a visit. It would have been great timing if they were playing at the same weekend as the Albion film but they're not. If that football film fest is regular, I may bear that in mind for next year.

As I said, I'm not a football ref so I don't know what the guidelines are. However, in rugby, the totting up process works in such a way that a player doesn't have to have committed a previous offence before being sent to the bin for persistent offences, if his team mates have been doing it. And...

A Leeds-supporting mate texted me after the game and said we'd seen both sides of Rutter now. "A good eye for a pass and a shit finisher". Well, we had Bissouma in midfield for a couple of years, so we're used to that