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    Watership Down

    (So, here I am, writing about Watership Down. My goodness, who'd've thought it, eh? ;)) A little heads-up to people: it looks as though the film is to be rereleased in cinemas sometime next year. I only know about a UK release so far - Germany (where WD is apparently huge) is probably the...
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    Bond - The Films vs The Books

    He's much nastier, isn't he, in the books? Some of the stories are really quite sadistic at times. And the product placement is amazing - I don't think anyone can complain about it in the films after reading Fleming's books! Cheers, David.
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    What you can do with a book besides reading it

    I use books to hide my desk from the outside world. And the chairs. And the windowsill. And the mantelpiece. Oh, and the floor... Cheers, David.
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    Kaye Webb and the Puffin Club

    Puffin is the juvenile imprint of Penguin, and probably the most important children's publisher in Britain. I assumed (obviously wrongly) that they operated in the States, otherwise I'd have explained. Here's their website: http://www.puffin.co.uk/ Cheers, David.
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    Kaye Webb and the Puffin Club

    I was flicking through some old Puffins I'd dug up today, and was struck by the quality of many of those from the 1970s or so. They had one thing in common: those three little words, "Editor: Kaye Webb". The blurbs on the inside front cover seemed somehow far more literate than you'd get on the...
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    another new member, me

    Hello :) This bookcrossing thing interests me, but I've never seen it myself - is it at all common in the UK? And if not, oughtn't we Brits to do something about it...? ;) Cheers, David.
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    5 Favourite Books

    Stephen King knows his Richard Adams, incidentally - you'll note Stu Redman using the word "tharn" in The Stand, and I believe another SK book has a bear called Shardik. Anyway, my five for today (like many people, they change a lot from day to day, except for the first). I'll stick to...
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    Disagree with ending?

    This is going to sound horribly pompous, but War and Peace has this problem. The story proper ends, but then there's an interminable, turgid "historical perspective" bit, which is incredibly boring. Cheers, David.
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    To start things off: Favorite books

    jessica: I'm not Welsh, but I do have Welsh ancestry (I have avises and Lloyds not too far back), and like the country a lot. As for the language, I have the same problem as you do, living as I do in England... Dw i'n dysgu, ond dw i ddim yn gallu siarad yr iaith yn dda iawn! (I'm learning...
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    Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Asimov in vast quantities, though I found his SF via his non-fiction (especially the short F&SF essays), rather than the other way around. I don't much like the Foundation stuff - his short stories are generally more to my liking. John Wyndham - I still count The Chrysalids among my...
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    To start things off: Favorite books

    I don't do "definitively" :p However, I found a pronunciation guide here: http://web.umr.edu/~duy/misc/prydain.html I don't know the books, but looking at that list the language is clearly based closely on Welsh, and "Prydain" in Welsh means "Britain". The Welsh pronunciation of "Prydain"...
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    Fanfic - homage or rip-off?

    Reason for edit: adding silly PS Of course. Your position is one I don't have any trouble in understanding, and I'd suspect that it's in a fairly hefty majority. As you say, though, the world would be a pretty poor place if we all agreed! Cheers, David (who is looking forward to his...
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    Fanfic - homage or rip-off?

    Reason for edit: typos! Oh, I thought this thread had died! Better reply to you lot, then: Prolixic: cheers for the translation of the American! ;) You're quite right about the legal stuff (though I don't think English law has a concept called "notoriety") - I said way back in my first...
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    Have you ever had a book signed by the author?

    I went to a Terry Pratchett signing by mistake once... by which I mean that I went into a bookshop, and there he was, big hat and all. I'm not a huge signing-session person, though - I reserve that sort of bowing and scraping for racing drivers! (Stirling Moss, Juha Kankkunen, Colin McRae, Roy...
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    Fanfic - homage or rip-off?

    Reason for edit: inserting extra bit just before "Cheers, David". :) Well, there's a coincidence, (-)Ions - that was the site that inspired me to make the original post in this discussion! I read the Watership Down section and a couple of others quite regularly, and although a good...
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    Fanfic - homage or rip-off?

    Worms, can of, for the opening... :) Anyway, there seems to be a good spread here of authors, aspiring authors, readers and - well, all right, maybe not aspiring readers. I'm sure we've all read at least one book... anyway, how do people here feel about fan fiction - ie stories (or whatever)...
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    Pleased to meet you

    Hello there - as a newbie myself I can tell you that it's all very welcoming :) I found this place by accident as well - I can't remember what I was actually looking for, but I certainly remember the outcome! :D Cheers, David.
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    Hello (talk about original titles...)

    'Tis "Wooster-sher". Same goes for "Gloster-sher", "Lester-sher" and so on. Also for their county towns. The one notable exception is Cirencester, which is "siren-sester" for some reason. No Board of Geographic Names over here, y'see! ;) I wouldn't dream of getting at you over the Watership...
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    Science

    I don't think Sagan's views are extremist exactly, merely that he was rather forceful in expressing them. I declare an interest here in that I share his religious beliefs (if you see what I mean ;) ), but that's rather beside the point. That book's flaws (which do, yes, include a slight strain...
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    Science

    Haven't read the two you mention, but I do read a fair number of science books. Steven Jay Gould is always good value, as is Richard Dawkins (despite their mutual antagonism!). A different branch of science, but Carl Sagan's books I find fascinating, and "The Demon-Haunted World" is extremely...
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