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...todays Independant has an article on the subject... ...btw, we seem to have a bit of topic duplication with this thread...

...so what do you think is the better situation to produce great literature?...the writer who is comfortably well off, and can write at leisure, with no pressure to conform to what is commercial...or the starving artist?... ...or is this a false question?...is the desire, the need, to write...

...somebody funny?...

...That reminds me of a comment Micheal Caine once made about how you can never be rich enough if you've come from poverty...the quote's in this interview... ...clearly you mean Proust not Prost, sometimes the two are interchanged in the minds of the easily confused... K-S

...perhaps this list illustrates the quote found on Trollope's wikipedia entry..."Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic." — W. H. Auden

..somewhere tucked away, possibly at my mother's house I have a graphic novel written by Fellini from about 15-20 years ago...comics being considered much more of a legitimate art form on continental Europe at that time than in Britain and America...I forget the plot, but it seem to remember it...

...I'm guessing the point is that it's not a list of all time great movies, but recentish films that have had a cultural impact...seeing more than ten is enough to show you have your finger on the cultural button, so to speak, with more than 50 perhaps indicating you need to boarden your...

...student humour, it's funny because they're better than we are...

I haven't read NME regularly for a few years now, but for what it's worth, and for whatever era you read it: the writers always get on your tits, they always spend too much time trying to create music scenes, and you always wish you'd been reading it five years earlier when it sounded so much...

...ok, not contemporary but there you go...follow the links and see if anything takes your fancy... ...historical fiction...try "The Gladiators" by Arthur Koestler...and if you like that move on to "Darkness at Noon"... ...sci-fi...try "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem...his books are more...

...I'm not uploading pictures onto the interweb at this time of night...

...I don't read much contempory fiction, so I may not be able to help all that much...but I would say the most important thing is that you enjoy your reading and that you find books that you consider good rather than fall in line with the taste of others...so perhaps it would be a good idea for...

...you don't need my help to find pictures of that on the interweb... ...however the advice does seem to be sound... Always here to clarify, K-S

...it's hard to tell what to recommend when I know so little about your taste but here goes...I've picked some smart, funny and strangly overlooked 20th century American gems...have a look at the info on amazon and see if any appeal, I enjoyed all of them...I'll start with a couple of novels...

...Tom Clancy fans trying to cross into TBF will be prosecuted... ...and any uniforms subsequently returned to 'The Village People'... ...the indigenous communities own phony-balony bullshit taste will be defended at all costs...

...proof, if I needed it, of my continuing drift from hip-kid towards hip-replacement...

I think I'm right in saying that R o t f a l o l t i c = ...but I could be wrong, I never could keep up with the hip-kid lingo...

...that's the second time in this thread you've tried to lure me into posting one of my unfunny pictures...don't think I haven't sussed your game...

...if you speak Russian you can get access on-line to a lot more, as Sergo explains in this post...

Yeah, I can see that, but I guess my personality makes it hard for me to understand it. If I don't like something, or think its poor quality, it just doesn't interest me; I'd rather spend time on things I enjoy. Posting about a books flaws when it receives undeserved praise I can understand, the...