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"...have went" should be "...have gone"

Agreed more or less entirely, Stewart. Now: Bountyhunter. Salt and vinegar for that chip on your shoulder?

...Or a good reason to read the book! I think reference to 'criticism' or 'blame' is misplaced. The donors are not passive in the sense that couch potatoes are passive; they are passive in the sense that we all are: victims (if that's not too emotive a word) of the circumstances of our birth...

Only the bad ones, presumably. (Just to recap on yesterday's lesson: any book that's badly written is a bad book.) And they were spoiled before mari or anyone else opened them.

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells is an obvious progenitor for The Day of the Triffids. Wyndham's other novels are also worth a look, particularly The Chrysalids, which is his masterpiece.

I don't think it's really about that at all. It's no more a tale of moral angst than it is a sci-fi novel. The focus for me was on the way the clones/donors react to their situation, ie limited opposition, general acceptance, no sense that things should be or could be any way other than they...

33. Could be worse...

Aw, thanks guys! :o I was offline yesterday so didn't see these until now. Since you asked, StillILearn, yesterday I saw my family and then my girlfriend and opened presents, then went book-shopping (haul: Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey; Honoré de Balzac, Old Goriot; Philip Roth...

Hi Sansan The book you refer to is definitely not by Patrick McGrath. He has only been publishing books since the late 1980s, so the book from the 70s definitely wasn't him. I did think it might be The Dead School by Patrick McCabe (similar name...) but it too dates from the 1990s. For the...

Like a bulldog chewing a wasp, then?

Yes, earplugs are the answer. Couldn't live without 'em.

Interestingly, although Baigent and Leigh lost the case, the judge was critical of Dan Brown's evidence, making it clear he thought he was lying at times: So Brown doesn't quite leave court without a stain on his character. (Of course, the fact that he wrote The Da Vinci Code means he arrived...

Ho boy, yes, reading as an exercise in quantity surveying. This all sounds very familiar to me, ions.

Sure, I realise that Moto; no criticism intended and this is indeed precisely the right place for the link to go. Just wanted to clarify the two distinct cases and add my own tuppenceworth.

This, for the record, is a completely different case than the Perdue one everyone's been discussing on this thread (that case was kicked out some time ago). This was brought by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, co-authors (with Henry Lincoln, who wisely didn't get involved) of The Holy Blood...

Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary? If you chose a contemporary book which was more, well, more like a 'proper book', then you would have a better choice of earlier stuff, eg John O'Farrell v Kingsley Amis, Helen Fielding v Nancy Mitford, Edward St Aubyn v Evelyn Waugh...

What's with the craze for more pages? Thin is in! I do think though that Rowling has made a rod for her own back in making books 4-6 so fat. Hard to believe now that books 1-3 were normal book length, ie 200-300 pages. If she put out something that length now, people would take to the...

How true, SFG - and it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Unless you're like pink shadow or Mari and can marry (pun?) your work with what you love, then the question for me is how much priority should you give your job over your home life? I'm a lawyer (solicitor to those in...

I loved it too, Ms. Here are some comments I posted about it on another forum. --- I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (which I once got about, ooh, 30 pages into in my younger and...

Weirdest book I've read is possibly The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus. Here is the first story in the collection, entitled "Intercourse with Resuscitated Wife:" And another, entitled "Snoring, Accidental Speech:" Close after that would be Mystery in Spiderville by John Hartley...