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The book has gone from making you hate French, despise Belgiun, think usless fools at the UN to absolutely fucking spit blood at the US government - and I still have about a 100 pages to go - I hope it has a happy ending....
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I'm all confused by the whole prawn cocktail thing. It would appear that it's just taking shrimp, tossing them in a mayonnaise-based sauce of some kind, and serving over lettuce. It's like the ingredients in a lobster roll, except not using lobster obviously, and missing the critical detail of the bread to contain all the vaguely greasy seafood bits.
I'm more familiar with shrimp cocktail (shrimp cooked and chilled, served with cocktail sauce, preferably one with lots of horseradish), which is good occasionally.
Here, have some photo goodness.
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That's why I think it is so loved, because of the simplicity. However, I completely forgot to mention this rather exciting bit of information. My girlfirend doesn't like prawns. When I mean, doesn't like... I mean is actually frightened of. She has a mild fear of crustaceans.
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: I just had a mental image of Samuelnorton reading a book about Rwandan genocide in a bid to cheer himself up. Rocking backwards and forwards laughing "Take that fuzzy-wuzzies!" I don't know why he'd be depressed. Maybe after reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and crying like a kid that's just seen Bambi for the first time.
lol. Personally I find the term 'fuzzy-wuzzies' a little childish, and Shirer's work is a little out of date now. Come on man, keep up!
I was reading Ian Smith's Bitter Harvest the other week - an excellent and enlightening read.
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quote:Originally posted by dang65: Come And See - Russian war flim about partisans in WWII, taken from child's point of view. Terrifying.
Idi i smotri is a must-see among modern war films, and leaves the Hollywood guff trailing in its wake. Unlike the latter, Elem Klimov's very honest and uncompromising work cannot be described in a short paragraph; it is a war movie, yes - but is distinctly surreal in places. Everyone I have spoken to who has seen the film always remembers the loris.
Some trivia: live ammo was used in the filming, and the film was actually restricted for a time in the USSR on account of the SS officer at the end remaining calm and dignified in presenting his case despite knowing that he was going to die.
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So many loose ends. Did Benny the Ball evercure his depression? Such a shame network execs cancelled TMO before the story was wrapped up.
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Yeah, Fox are rubbish aren't they.
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That worked better. It's a bit too soon for me to comment on it just yet as I haven't finished it. Give me some time....
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It's bits of the second one, yeah. It was just reading about it in the opening posts of the thread, and I thought I'd... you know... Chuck it up there. It's very raw at the moment, and only the first 40,000 words. There's a lot of placeholder stuff that's just there to stick the story together, and I haven't gone through it to take out the pointless digressions yet.
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I'm going to run this through a text to speech program and convert it to mp3 and listen to it being read to me by a robot.
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You're not going to fully appreciate it unless you read it as it was intended to be read: as text projected onto the surface of the moon, with illustrations on either side performed by co-ordinated fireworks, the entire thing read out in Morgan Freeman's 'wise old man' voice, while on the other side of the planet the Sun goes supernova. Alot of the drama won't work outside of this context. It's an 'event' novel.
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Actually yeah, the quiet dog bit was my favourite too. They tried everything to stop the dog being quiet. That was hilarious, but I suppose it was probably a bit too racist to make it to the final cut.
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I don't understand why you took that whole bit about Jeff Wrangler and the dog he'd 'trained up' to react to certain races out of it. Seemed like a real USP to me.
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