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http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=59594 Bit of a chat about Eco here...

You obviously decided on a list of old favourites and some HUGE books for when you went travelling?

Yup, no question

I got a great book of political wit the other day. It is hilarious, particularly some of the 18th and 19th century exchanges. "You sir, shall die at the gallows or of the clap" "It all depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress"

A friend was telling me that he had a reoccuring dream: he was on the old, Irish Who wants to be a millionaire?. He got to the million euro question, knew the answer and gave his response as "Go fuck yourself Gay". He used to always wake up happy after that dream.

How big is the golden statue they would erect in my honour?

I would say the Rules of Attraction is pretty good too. Lunar Park was an interesting idea poorly executed (the writer is literally haunted by his past creations). I think the idea in American Psycho is not that the author did not exist but that he did not kill anyone (but probably was...

Eat yourself fatter seems easiest

According to the web I can purchase any of the following books: Each yourself thin Each yourself clever Eat yourself pregnant Eat yourself younger Eat yourself beautiful, smart and sexy etc... I know food can be used as medicine but give me a break...

Kling Klang at the lower deck a few weeks back was plagued by photographers. One of them managed to knock over the singer's mike which takes some doing when the drunken hordes had managed to avoid it.

I think he is looking to be cured in the medical sense, not the culinary sense...

I read somewhere before that when you do a legal cover version of a song you can do anything you want with the music (including the vocal melody) but you are not allowed touch the lyrics. Anyone know if this is true?

Get off the fence and tell us what you really think Buzzo!

Useless

Is it the Crane delivering the baby, no?

Wise Blood http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080140/ Saw it years ago on RTE and I thought it was great and I have never been able to track it down since...

It must be nice for JK Rowling to be the one sueing for plagarism for a change...

What about dedications? For Simon, not Schuster

"Moose Malone was a wide man but no wider than a beer truck" - Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Even though I have a pretty good memory for text I don't really think in terms of opening lines to books. Kind of breaks the spell a bit, no?

10/10