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Posted 04/09/2007 16:28:21


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Paddington Blue (04/09/2007)
i liked papillon. i reckon he lies a bit though.

He must be an angel or summat cos there isn't anyone who doesn't like him and he makes breaking out of prisons look like going for a few pints down your local.

Or has he just blocked the hellish bits out of his mind.  I'm just at the bit where he's left his two indian wives.

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Posted 04/09/2007 16:31:07


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i think i blocked that bit out of my mind, although i did read it over ten years ago.

and to be fair to TGG, i have read the first 20 pages and i really want to know what happens, but with papillon it took me months to read as i wasnt too interested and was reading other books at the same time.


 

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Posted 04/09/2007 16:33:51


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Paddington Blue (04/09/2007)
i think i blocked that bit out of my mind, although i did read it over ten years ago.

and to be fair to TGG, i have read the first 20 pages and i really want to know what happens, but with papillon it took me months to read as i wasnt too interested and was reading other books at the same time.

TGG is a bit predictable.  Contains one of the best lines ever though:

"And he knew that when he kissed this girl...his mind would never romp again like that of the mind of God"

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Posted 04/09/2007 17:03:36


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Paddington Blue (04/09/2007)
i liked papillon. i reckon he lies a bit though.

I think Bukowski does about how many women he has had

Bukowski, now there's a series of great books!


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Posted 04/09/2007 17:05:22


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Paddington Blue (04/09/2007)
i liked papillon. i reckon he lies a bit though.

I think Bukowski does about how many women he has had

Bukowski, now there's a series of great books!

 

d'you like the modest mouse song bukowski?


 

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Posted 04/09/2007 17:11:03


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never heard of it, this is a good thread, have drawn inspiration from it a couple of times. Don't spoil it


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Posted 04/09/2007 17:15:13


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Cooder (04/09/2007)
never heard of it, this is a good thread, have drawn inspiration from it a couple of times. Don't spoil it

Coods.  My favourite book ever is "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun, you should read it.

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Posted 04/09/2007 17:25:22


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Cooder (04/09/2007)
never heard of it, this is a good thread, have drawn inspiration from it a couple of times. Don't spoil it

Coods.  My favourite book ever is "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun, you should read it.

Will go upstairs and get it when I get the chance (I'm at work)


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Posted 04/09/2007 17:28:47


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The Incredible Drunk (04/09/2007)
Cooder (04/09/2007)
never heard of it, this is a good thread, have drawn inspiration from it a couple of times. Don't spoil it

Coods.  My favourite book ever is "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun, you should read it.

Is that the same hunger that was made into a film with David Bowie?


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Posted 04/09/2007 17:33:38


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Cooder (04/09/2007)
never heard of it, this is a good thread, have drawn inspiration from it a couple of times. Don't spoil it

Coods.  My favourite book ever is "Hunger" by Knut Hamsun, you should read it.

Is that the same hunger that was made into a film with David Bowie?

"The Hunger" a 1983 movie starring Bowie and Catherine DeNeuve.  Not the adaptation of this particular book though.....

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