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"The long winter evenings must just fly by"

Well firstly, any book covering the topic of War that gives you the feeling that it's anything but a last resort has probably failed in it's duty to explain exactly what happens. But as to some recommended reading: Poetry - As Novella has suggested, the British war poets of WW1 are a good...

And to think, your PC has multiple amounts of the computing power used to put a man on the moon... Anyway, back to the thread. See what happens when Sergo disappears for a day, the place turns to anarchy. It's only a matter of time before some smartarse posts a screenshot from 'The Man With...

If he's such a fascinating man then you've not totally wasted your time have you. I have this biography of him, as some of the reviewers on amazon suggest the anaylsis of his life does get a bit freudian at times, but that's gonna happen if you insist on being chained up stark bollock naked...

Nope, it's from The Brick Testament.

Just checked the tapes from my old Hugo Russian course: Достое́вский was pronounced do-sto-yev-skeey when spoken slowly and da-sta-yef-skee at normal speed. But does Sergo agree? Or is he, as I've often suspected, actually a Japanesse schoolgirl with no more knowledge of Russian grammer...

End-Less; really Peder, you should have been able to work that one out. As to Dostoyevski, Dastavefskee and all other variants, I've tried feeding them all into 'Let them sing it for you' and none of them sound totally convincing. We shall have to wait for Sergo verdict...

??? It didn't fall flat...you need to stop thinking about things, none one else on here does that... Now back to waiting for Sergo’s pronouncement on pronunciation….when he eventually gives his verdict I imagine the scene to look something like this… Not quite sure why I...

Was it the atmospheric pressure at 3,000 feet underwater?

Well that's put 150+ million Russian speakers in their place. Madam, how would you like it if Sergo said his favourite book was 'Bleak Horse' by Charles Dickends? *awaits white smoke*

Peder This is probably the finest description of Russian grammer I've yet encountered. Toss whatever you wish, whereever you wish; just don't scare the horses. Indeed, he picks today to nip off to St Petersburg, and we find ourselves sitting here waiting for the white smoke to appear over the...

You probably have no idea just how complicated a question that is! To get a definative answer I'd PM Sergo, who is one of our Muscovite members. For what it's worth I was taught that Достое́вский is pronounced da-sta-yef-skee. O is indeed pronouced as A when not stressed; although they...

You'll need to load it up over night if you're doing it at home. Oh well, good luck with it anyway.

Yup, it's a powerful peice...

It was Kinky Afro by The Happy Mondays. Someone else can post a lyric in my place, this game isn't really working for me...

Houdini nailed this stuff to the mast almost 100 years ago, and he was someone who desperately wanted to believe so he could contact his mother, but he was never able to find a medium whose act he couldn't imediately see through.

By the time your daughter is 21 you’ll be too busy worrying how you can finance her year at an American university to care what her taste is. British soap-operas tend to be about ordinary people, and are sometimes quite funny. I don’t watch them myself though..

Hello Well as I said in my earlier post, I'm a fairly direct person who likes to communicate in a fairly direct way. The volume of Neruda's work I have, 'Residence on Earth', has some blurb on the back describing his poems as 'written to speak to everyday life directly to the reader', but for...

Do you mean the programme is dubbed? Ok, but people taste changes a lot between fifteen and say twenty one. The big natural history programme from when I was a child was Life on Earth, which took several years to make. The shows that tended to get the largest audiences then, and now too I...

I’ve noticed on a number of book boards that people seem to spend inordinate amounts of time posting about books and authors they don’t like; I must be missing something as I don’t see what they get from it. Perhaps it’s a personal thing, but if I strongly dislike a book then it just doesn’t...