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  • Dante
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    Haha! It's the odd gem like that which makes it all worthwhile. Comedy is too safe and boring these days.

    I like the fact that everyone thinks he's a tw@t - he knows it too. It doesn't really matter - he's a funny tw@t.

    People said the same about Ricky Gervais from his 11 O clock show days - then when he went mainstream everyone fell in love with him.

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  • expat
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    Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
    [Karamazov] The only book that brings tears to my eyes...
    Oh bugger, do I have to dig it out and try again?

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  • Bob Dalek
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    Originally posted by oracleslave View Post
    I wouldn't read Brand on principle as I think he is a right twunt. I did laugh at the mtv bit he did the other day though.
    His dealing with Bob Geldoff in 2006 at an awards do was just lovely! Geldof had called him a c**t:

    Really it's no surprise he's [Geldof] such an expert on famine he has after all been dining out on, "I Don't Like Mondays," for 30 years.

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  • Incognito
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    I picked up a mates copy of my booky wook and had to put it down after flicking through it. The bloke is a tw@t and to read about him throwing his hissy fits before his MTV days you'd think the guy was Tom Cruise or something.

    Brand is one man in dire need of a dose of euthanasia.

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by Dante View Post
    She must have - she's going out with me.

    It's quite funny in places actually. Not as funny as The Timewaster Letters, but then again they're a different league...
    I wouldn't read Brand on principle as I think he is a right twunt. I did laugh at the mtv bit he did the other day though.

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  • Dante
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    She must have - she's going out with me.

    It's quite funny in places actually. Not as funny as The Timewaster Letters, but then again they're a different league...

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  • oracleslave
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    Originally posted by Dante View Post
    I have a few on the go:

    The Dice Man - George Cockroft - Hard Work
    The Black Swan - Harder Work.
    My Booky Wook - Russell Brand - More my level.

    The missus reads whatever those great literary scholars Richard and Judy recommend.
    Sounds like the missus has marginally better taste

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  • Dante
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    I have a few on the go:

    The Dice Man - George Cockroft - Hard Work
    The Black Swan - Harder Work.
    My Booky Wook - Russell Brand - More my level.

    The missus reads whatever those great literary scholars Richard and Judy recommend.

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    I got bogged down in The Brothers Karamzov. A friend (?) remarked that the first 300 pages or so were a bit boring, but it got interesting after that.
    The only book that brings tears to my eyes...

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  • HeliCraig
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    Brining it back on topic a little:

    Currently reading Chickenhawk by Robert Mason.

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