Roderick Spode is a great character, and a very precise skewering of Oswald Moseley.
― Achtung Blobby (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Despite what Wodehouse may have gone on to do.
― Achtung Blobby (Neil S), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Reading the transcripts of the broadcasts now and I can see there might've been another side to it but really, unless he was doing them at gunpoint, it was ill-advised. Anyway like I said this has nothing to do with his merits as a writer.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
You.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sigh. [saying something is] not equal to [saying it's special].
― collardio gelatinous, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
My favourite poet had a bit of a problem with the old "not doing propaganda broadcasts for fascist regimes" thing too.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
John Hegley?
― ledge, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The fact that I have to include every book B.S. Johnson ever wrote over and above almost everything else kind of forced me to exclude some of the other books which I will love forever - both Tristram Shandy and Don Quixote would be in there, along with Pale Fire and Ben Marcus' Notable American Women (I prefer The Age of Wire and String but it's sometimes marketed as short stories - it is better taken as a novel, I think).
― emil.y, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
xp I think he means me.
― Ezra # (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Who the heckers is Ezra Hash?
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh I think Possession might be one of my fave novels ever too.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Ezra Octothorpe
― ledge, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
lol on american keyboards, the pound stirling sign on the 3 key comes out as a hash when shift-pressed
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Wtf, you guys call it a hash?
― great gabbneb's ghost (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah. And we call muffins snuggle-dumplings.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
wait isn't that what we call "the pound sign?" makes sense that you'd have to call it something else in england!
― Maria, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Britain makes a hash of it again amirite
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I think Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith deserves an honourable mention of all novels not yet listed.
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Thing is that Three Men In A Boat completely pwns Diary Of A Nobody in the whole Victorian lulz stakes, without remorse or mercy
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't read it though.
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
(Have just ordered on amazon.)
― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, Americans, we are talking about this sign: #, right? The slanty noughts and crosses board? You don't call that a pound sign do you?
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Mr. Hoy, let me know when you stop lolling. I predict some point mid-2010.
― gosh I actually dig this shit (country matters), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Noodle: yes, we do
― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh wow. Mind blown.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, now i get the confusion. for a minute i thought britain had converted to an all-hash economy.
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol that'd be the day eh
― Guy de & (country matters), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(also i think twitter is going to cement 'hash' for # in the american vernacular.)
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
this is like my bafflement at the number of British posters on the "TACOS vs HOT DOGS" thread who were like "uh what's a taco"
― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Srsly? There's no excuse for that other than wilful ignorance.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
oh hang on was it pinefox?
can deal with tacos, not so corndogs, i look at a corndog and i want to drink tea and watch cricket until i've forgotten it ever invaded my consciousness
― Guy de & (country matters), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Corndogs are aight, I don't ever crave one tho.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Ishmael Reed - Mumbo JumboAlfred Bester - the Stars My DestinationGGM - One Hundred Years of SolitudeAgatha Christie - And Then There Were NoneEvelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
― maciej recognizing trill, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
hoos cheated - i would have immediately put jesus' son by denis johnson too, but it's really a short story collection, not a novel
i also forgotfactotum by bukowskibehind the scenes at the museum - kate atkinsonwide sargasso sea - jean rhyshey, nostradamus - douglas coupland
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha no, it wasn't pinefox! (actually it was only one person who said it twice but still)
― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
But we have Chiquito's and everything! Tell you the truth I'm not sure if they do tacos but taco shells are freely available from most supermarkets.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I wouldn't vote on that poll anyway because all Britishes hotdogs are without exception terrible.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
As is all Britishes Tex-Mex food I imagine.
Not Mrs Vague's cornbread tho. That's pretty good.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I ate at this place near Covent Garden that was actually pretty tasty! They had like a billion different tequilas and was a lot of fun.
― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
(mexican food, I should clarify; their fajitas were v.v. good)
i love how even a thread on books can turn into a thread on tacos
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
Yeah I'm sure London's got some dece places. Hull not so much.
― my so-called trife (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
if salinger's franny & zooey and seymour:an introduction/raise high the roofbeam, carpenters then i'll add both those to my list, as well
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
*count as novels
yeah those count
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
to the poster who mentioned the loved rock springs but didn't enjoy sportswriter - independence day is DEFINITELY the best of ford's trilogy. i couldn't get thru sportswriter or lay of the land - both felt like such a slog.
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked lay of the land but it's a good thing you didn't read the ending. shockingly wtf.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i might enjoy it more the next time i go back to it - i was really stressed and busy and had a lot of shit going on in my life when i first tried reading it. rock springs really is great, though.
― where we turn sweet dreams into remarkable realities (just1n3), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
well, maybe i'll try independence day sometime. i love ford's writing, and there were parts of the sportswriter i would have liked as short stories. but i just wasn't into it at novel length. (also saw ford read once, and he's a very entertaining reader.)
― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link