Holiday reading recs

"The Dark Lake" -Anthea Carson (1800 ish USCF player too as well as artist)

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Its retribution for what they did to the Barron, they treated him with disrespect, a fellow artist and poet just like you and I! just a ragged clown chasing shadows, until he was gunned down! Russ held the gun to his head, subscribe or be banned! but the Barron would not conform to his evil mind ray and vigorously resisting reincarnated himself in a ...[text shortened]... n until ruthlessly smoked out by super girl and the cowboy! I hold them personally responsible!

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you have a gift, give it up...

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
My Family and Other Animals


Right lolof?

Yes, it's a lovely book - one of the best I've read. I would recommend everybody to read it.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
No but i have issues with people who are humorless and cannot mind their own business. Why you feel the necessity to cast your disparaging shadow upon some poor ragged clown with your gelid tentacles intent on strangling the humanity out of him i cannot say, but i merrily skip upon my way gleeful in the knowledge that even such a great darkness cannot overcome even a flickering light. 😵

Eh, Rob, I thought I told you Isopropyl is for EXTERNAL use only. You can't drink the stuff... Understand??

Originally posted by rookie54
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you have a gift, give it up...

Must I parade my literary genius like a disheveled hawker peddling his wares from house to house in a smackdown literary wrestling competition? I cannot, i am too afraid of failure my poet cousin. There is no gift, there is just relationships, thats all that matters.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Must I parade my literary genius like a disheveled hawker peddling his wares from house to house in a smackdown literary wrestling competition? I cannot, i am too afraid of failure my poet cousin. There is no gift, there is just relationships, thats all that matters.

"A man that ain't never afraid is a fool." James Arness as Marshall Matthew Dillon

Face your fears, look them in the eyes and kick em in the nuts.
Then move on my friend.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Must I parade my literary genius like a disheveled hawker peddling his wares from house to house in a smackdown literary wrestling competition? I cannot, i am too afraid of failure my poet cousin. There is no gift, there is just relationships, thats all that matters.

Are you actually going to rec a book or just continue to masturbate your way through another one of my threads?

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Eh, Rob, I thought I told you Isopropyl is for EXTERNAL use only. You can't drink the stuff... Understand??

Desperate times my son! there is treachery afoot!

But id just like to say that

Shantaram, by a convicted Australian bank robber who escaped to Mumbai is a pretty awesome read.

Originally posted by divegeester
I like SiFi

Any book with A. C. Clarke's name on it.

'Avenger', political thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth published 2003.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
...like a disheveled hawker peddling his wares from house to house....

Second nature for you, Watchtower Boy.

Originally posted by divegeester
Are you actually going to rec a book or just continue to masturbate your way through another one of my threads?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-You-There-God-Margaret/dp/0307745686/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1402491538&sr=8-2&keywords=are+you+there+god

Originally posted by darvlay
Second nature for you, Watchtower Boy.

Actually i wear a pure new wool suit by Yves Saint Laurent, from the designer room of Ralph Slaters, Glasgow, silk tie and cotton shirt, when i step out I'm like a style explosion, a style tsunami, devastating and unstoppable. . . . .dem chicks dig a sharp dressed man. 😵

Classic sci-fi: Lucifer's Hammer

"Losing Nelson" by Barry Unsworth.

"This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolff.

"What a Carve Up!" by Jonathan Coe.