john_self
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@ Now HERE would be a good reason to have it in for Audrey!
36 minutes ago
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in reply to StuartEvers
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This email exchange is completely and utterly awesome: (via @ and too many others to list, sorry)
41 minutes ago
from web
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@ Well I was going to say Anne Tyler but that would have been favouring dull over bad. ;-)
42 minutes ago
from web
in reply to StuartEvers
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Challenge: get to the end of the 2nd sentence of Jackie Weaver's blurb without laughing:
about 2 hours ago
from web
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@ No. Steve Davis was asked this once. It's just that as you get older,he said, you get a life and don't spend all day practising
about 3 hours ago
from Echofon
in reply to juliangough
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@ @ "Bad is better than dull". Ah, THAT'S why you liked The Time Traveler's Wife!
about 3 hours ago
from Echofon
in reply to StuartEvers
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@ Martin Amis will be very relieved that he has escaped that particular accolade.
about 3 hours ago
from Echofon
in reply to meandmybigmouth
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@ Never said they were! Just that he appears on covers a lot given his reclusive rep (bit like Pynchon actually).
about 12 hours ago
from Echofon
in reply to Joethepublicist
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'Iraq war eve WMD doubt revealed' - the BBC crunching maximum detail into its 32 character headlines here.
about 13 hours ago
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@ Oh and of course Foer's Eating Animals and Shields' Reality Hunger...
about 14 hours ago
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in reply to Joethepublicist
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@ (He's prob not all *that* effusive; it's just that in comparison to his reclusive image, he's very forthcoming with quotes)
about 14 hours ago
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in reply to Joethepublicist
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@ Will try to make a list but off top of head: The Twin, Gerbrand Bakker; Beyond Sleep, WF Hermans; Blood Kin, Ceridwen Dovey
about 14 hours ago
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in reply to Joethepublicist
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In Eat Etc, a cafe on Belmont Road in Belfast run by a Christian charity, they are currently playing 'Sympathy for the Devil'. Balanced.
about 16 hours ago
from Echofon
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"Sparkling Soft Drink With Vegetable Extracts". Does that mean that a can of Coke constitutes one of my 5-a-day?
about 17 hours ago
from Echofon
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@ (I presume you to be an authority based on your starring role in episode 5 of series 1...)
about 17 hours ago
from Echofon
in reply to Glinner
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@ Wasn't I'm Alan P unusual in that set had four walls, so audience had to watch it all on screens?
about 17 hours ago
from Echofon
in reply to Glinner
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@ 'Canned laughter'! Do people really believe there's an engineer sat in the edit suite, turning the laughs up and down with a knob?
about 17 hours ago
from web
in reply to Glinner
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Picked up the new Penguin Modern Classics of Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy. Worth reading next?
about 17 hours ago
from web
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Anyone read David Hughes' graphic novel Walking the Dog, pub by @? Like the sound (and look) of it...
about 18 hours ago
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@ As it's to do with writing, how about ?
about 18 hours ago
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in reply to juliangough
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- Name John Self
- Location Belfast
- Web http://theasylum....
- Bio Writes about books on a 'blog'. Has the face of a hypocrite. Printed by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc. Sleeve by Whores in Retirement.
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