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Absolutely wrong. Of course they can. There are exceptions, as you imply - for example if a business was stupid enough to want to refuse someone entry because of the colour of their skin, then anti-discrimination laws (not to mention bad publicity) would prevent them from doing that. But...

I think I'm still in the growing-on-me phase, though I admit I haven't listened to it for a while (excuse: my new car doesn't have an iPod connection yet...). I do think I Will See You in Far-Off Places is superb though.

I've decided to reread Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty before the TV adaptation starts this week. Then comes: Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper Benjamín Prado, Snow is Silent Voltaire, Candide Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage Herman Melville, Billy Budd & other stories How many of...

Well, the lack of interview will be no loss after the last cringe-fest. And re Douglas Coupland's teasy non-interview with him in Observer Music Monthly a couple of months back, which I mentioned earlier: even TV newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy wrote in to complain about it!

On the original subject of this thread: of course the airline has the right to turn the woman away. All businesses, or private individuals for that matter, have the right to refuse to serve people or have them on their premises for any reason - or irrational prejudice - they like. "The...

Ah, now I see where you're coming from, jaybe! In that vein, I hate jury trials. What a waste of time and money! Everyone knows that the police wouldn't arrest someone if they weren't guilty! Oh and I don't have a pet, but I'm going to invent one just to keep you happy jaybe! My pet is...

10p is about 17 cents, Catti! Though you're right, the postage would probably offset the bargain price... To be honest I don't think it matters a lot which edition you buy. Yes it has been re-edited but these edits tend to be things like changing "the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening...

You'd think so, wouldn't you!

I am indeed, abecedarian. However I have little faith in them as about half the orders I have placed with their various member stores have ended up being cancelled as the book was pre-sold... and I hate that! :mad:

Lol - you'll be astonished to know I didn't actually try before posting that throwaway comment above! Now just let me see... (breathes in) [...] Actually I just about made it past one minute! :o Still, that is less than three, like I said...

Yes I stumbled upon Dan Fante when searching for John. His three novels are out of print in the UK (never having made it into 'proper' paperback, just large-format 'paperback original', so I'm guessing they didn't sell that well), but I will keep an eye out for them on eBay and Amazon Marketplace.

Me too! I didn't take what you said out of context, Motokid, I just put it in context. Your first words on this thread, before any specific address of Blaine's qualities, were "Anyone who pushes the boundaries of what's considered "normal" is doing something worthwhile." It's a neat piece of...

As a close-up illusionist (doing his 'street magic') Blaine is superb. As a self-aggrandising myth-maker, he's a joke. It's instructive I think to compare him with Derren Brown, the British 'mental illusionist' who started off in a similar way, his shows being mainly illusions filmed in the...

Here are my replicated thoughts on Fante, whom I only recently started reading after a long period of irrational dislike of 'beat literature' :rolleyes: (if he even counts as beat...) John Fante first came to my attention when I saw the first paragraph of the novel used as the epigraph to...

You're doing brilliantly, abecedarian! This is a great challenge. If you get time you could start a brief thread on each book as you finish it with just a few lines on it which might be a good way of encouraging les autres (eg me!), and spark further discussion. I have rarely been able to...

A volume of stories by Akutagawa (Rashomon and other stories) has just been issued in Penguin Classics in the UK. Needless to say, up till then I had no idea the film Rashomon was based on a story. :rolleyes: As for Kurosawa, I've only had a close encounter of the first and second kinds, ie...

So, er, for non-US citizens, how old would a ninth-grader be? And what does OP mean (as used by Kenny in an earlier post)?

He's an attention-seeking tw*t. Shame on the New Yorkers who actually turned up to gawp at him, just as he wanted. The poster for the event said "Failure means a drowning death!" Sadly not, in the event. Failure actually meant being hauled from the tank by his security men and...

Howard Zinn? Charles Beard?? At least I've heard of Paul Johnson - isn't he the British writer and commentator who's generally considered to be several miles to the right of Mussolini, and was affectionately known to Private Eye magazine as Paul 'Loonybins' Johnson?