BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE YOU SHUFFLE OFF THIS MORTAL COIL

UserRequestedRemoval · Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:04 am

Does that mean you are a Simon Scarrow fan Midget? I find he has a very easy style of writing. That is just perfect when you don't want anything too weighty.

icomefromalanddownunder · Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:16 am

englishangel wrote:Perhaps I am mis-remembering. What was the dinghy called?

The Bootle Bumtrinket (just incase that doesn't pass the word filter: The Bootle Threeletterwordforbottom-trinket .

I went to the house in the book in 1984 while on holiday on Corfu. It was still fairly isolated then but I expect it has been over-run by tourists by now.

I haven't been to Corfu since the late 70s, when it was beautiful: hope it still is.

I began to read Lawrence Durrell's work post Uni (first time around), and found it very hard to equate the author with his youngest brother's descriptions of him.

midget · Post by **midget** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:47 pm

soc wrote:Does that mean you are a Simon Scarrow fan Midget? I find he has a very easy style of writing. That is just perfect when you don't want anything too weighty.

Yes,Sean. He's good for reading with after-dinner coffee

UserRequestedRemoval · Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:04 pm

englishangel wrote:The Bootle Bumtrinket (just incase that doesn't pass the word filter: The Bootle Threeletterwordforbottom-trinket .

I went to the house in the book in 1984 while on holiday on Corfu. It was still fairly isolated then but I expect it has been over-run by tourists by now.

With a title like that I will just have to try it

icomefromalanddownunder · Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:48 am

soc wrote:With a title like that I will just have to try it

The book is delightful, but titled 'My Family and Other Animals' - The B Bt is the name given to youngest brother's dinghy by his older siblings.

UserRequestedRemoval · Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:56 pm

Well I will give just about anything a try, then if it is mentioned here, I will let you know what I think of it.

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:31 am

Blimey - you are about to overtake me on the amount of posts total

I am number 10 in the charts and in 15 days you have caught up with me!

You are only 3 posts away from knocking me off me perch!

Squawk!

If you dont know what I'm on about go to memberlist and click total posts and you can see who has made the most

Another few and you enter the hallowed ranks of button grecian!

cj · Post by cj » Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:56 pm

To promote greater understanding of the diversity of the peoples that populate this planet of ours, maybe we all ought be reading the significant texts of the world's major and minor religions. That would keep everyone quiet for a while!

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:13 pm

I feel I did too much of that already

I got quite religious as a kid and decided to read the Bible cover to cover

I got to the end of Deutoronomy and realised this was only going to make me ill...

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:15 pm

huntertitus wrote:I feel I did too much of that already

I got quite religious as a kid and decided to read the Bible cover to cover

I got to the end of Deutoronomy and realised this was only going to make me ill...

I hope you can remember who begat whom, etc.

UserRequestedRemoval · Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:20 pm

I have been given a copy of the Quoran (there are dozens of spellngs for this) by the local Imam and I have tried reading it but I have to do it little bit by little bit as it is rather heavy going

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:36 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
huntertitus wrote:I feel I did too much of that already

I got quite religious as a kid and decided to read the Bible cover to cover

I got to the end of Deutoronomy and realised this was only going to make me ill...
I hope you can remember who begat whom, etc.

Nope

I only know who I begat!

How many did you begat and are they as pretty as you?!!!

Luckily mine got their looks from Jane who is the prettier of us two

UserRequestedRemoval · Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:39 pm

All that begatting makes the bible a bit racy in some respects

huntertitus · Post by **huntertitus** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:48 pm

Check out The Song of Solomon

It's really erotic

And rather beautiful

The Victorian Bibles left it out

UserRequestedRemoval · Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:53 pm

Ah fantastic, an excuse to use my CH bible!