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Re: The Books Thread

Postby snaps » Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:42 pm

fish wrote: The first is "What's it all about", written by David Christian in the years leading up to its on-line posting in 2005.
It's a PDF file 32 pages long and to quote David, "What I would like to do is ask a rather simple question: Why?
Why do people fall in love with this film?
What is so special about it?
In what follows, I will try to develop an answer to this question."


http://fraks.sibverk.ru/svenska/FA/What_Its_All_About.pdf

I re-read it the other day and fell in love with Agnes and Elin all over again.
(Not that i was ever out of..... Oh, you know what I mean. :oops: )



OMFG! what a find. This has been missing for ages. I knew I'd seen it on pDF somewhere before, but I didn't keep a copy. When David's' freesite went down it erased most of it, and he didn't have a back up copy.

Ian! Ian! Ian! can you make sure to email David Christian and tlet him know that its turned up after all this time.
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby snaps » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:10 pm

I'm glad everyone appears to be enjoying this:

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I particularly like this cover. You see my point about YOHIO playing the part of Theres?
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby DMt. » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:23 pm

But snapsie, babe, Theres is much Much MUCH scarier than Bambi, she is the Dark Mother in all of us, going kill them aaaaaaaaaalllll...don't you think?
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby snaps » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:32 pm

DMt. wrote:But snapsie, babe, Theres is much Much MUCH scarier than Bambi, she is the Dark Mother in all of us, going kill them aaaaaaaaaalllll...don't you think?

Mmmm. I don't know. YOHIO does attractively scarey too :)
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby DMt. » Thu Sep 20, 2012 7:38 pm

Oh! Well, er, ahem
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby snaps » Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:04 pm

Well I know this is supposed to be a serious books thread. But, I have been getting into a MANGA series called ''Demon Diary'' as it was recommended by none other than YOHIO. *:)* It is hilarious. Very cleverly written and illustrated. It is very ''tongue-in-cheek'' and pokes fun at the Manga genre. [If you like Dr Who (note Raenefs scarf), and the way it lightly takes the piss out of science fiction, this is the equivalent]. Raenef clearly provided a role model for YOHIO :D

The lynchpin is the relationship between Raenef, a fifteen year old boy heir-apparent to demonry lordship, [pictured to the right here] and Eclipse, technically speaking his tutor, but also his subordinate [pictured to the left]. It IS ''yaoi'' but in a very non sexually explicit sense.

If you like ''Fucking Amal'' you cannot fail to fall in love with this series. It is soooo Agnes and Elin, albeit between two male characters. Agnes=Ecilpse, Elin=Raenef.

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Re: The Books Thread

Postby Ian » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:45 am

What was David's username? Was it Kant or someone else? :?:
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby snaps » Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:52 pm

Ian wrote:What was David's username? Was it Kant or someone else? :?:


I think so. YOU know him. You wrote to him about the Bex and Lex reunion. You must have his email addy somewhere in your system. :roll:

*chunters to self* Ian's mind is definitely going. It must be all that heat in Queensland has got to him :(
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby Ian » Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:03 am

I've had a difficult few weeks. :P
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby Agnes&Elin Forever! » Sat Sep 22, 2012 6:45 pm

Ian is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. :mrgreen:
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby snaps » Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:15 pm

Ian wrote:I've had a difficult few weeks. :P

It's OK. We understand. Just take a few days to acclimatise. Go and feed the crocodiles at the bottom of the garden, but don't get too close. :)

Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:Ian is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. :mrgreen:

Yes perhaps. But the point is we love him to bits :) He just needs time and space to adjust. Talking of knives, we've heard of 'Crocodile Dundee', the next BIG THANG must be 'Crocodile Ian' :shock:

Mmmm, excuse me for being picky :roll: but isn't this supposed to be a BOOKS thread? :T
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby DMt. » Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:21 am

'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' is great too, but read it before 'Smiley's People', is my advice :roll:
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby Ian » Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:33 am

snaps wrote:
Ian wrote:I've had a difficult few weeks. :P

It's OK. We understand. Just take a few days to acclimatise. Go and feed the crocodiles at the bottom of the garden, but don't get too close. :)

Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:Ian is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. :mrgreen:

Yes perhaps. But the point is we love him to bits :) He just needs time and space to adjust. Talking of knives, we've heard of 'Crocodile Dundee', the next BIG THANG must be 'Crocodile Ian' :shock:

Mmmm, excuse me for being picky :roll: but isn't this supposed to be a BOOKS thread? :T


You'd think. :P
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby DMt. » Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:53 pm

Ahem...has anyone read any Carlos Ruiz Zafon?
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Re: The Books Thread

Postby fish » Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:31 am

Carlos Ruiz Zafon????
Until you said his name I lived in blissful ignorance.
Now I'm going to have to find out more about his w*rk. :roll:

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