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Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: Marit (159.190.251.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 10:07AM
CR, on page 5, I suggested that that book was JRR Tolkien's description of his family reunion, but you may be right!
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 10:55AM
I quite like his story about his favourite pastime: "The Hobbi". Shame that his word processor didn't have a decent spell-checker, though.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 11:45AM
Alexander Dumas wrote about Frenchmen guarding a forest in "The Tree Musketeers", but this is frequently confused with Jerome K. Jerome's story of Ents sailing along the river.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 07, 2011 01:39PM
Alexander Dumas also wrote about the ex-President bank robbers "The man in the Ron Mask"
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 04:22PM
Charles Dicken's seminal work on the dangers of poor plumbing when buying property: Leak House.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: Gary Indiana (139.102.82.---)
Date: September 07, 2011 07:19PM
I'd rather read Leak House than suffer through Liver Twist again. I was jaundiced for weeks.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: September 08, 2011 11:54AM
And their prequel : Ale of Two Cities
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 08, 2011 12:52PM
Stephen Fry in the tale of regal activity "King Do"
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: September 08, 2011 05:27PM
Arthur C. Clarke's story of Yuri Gagarin: "001 A Space Odyssey"
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: delacuesta (---.adsl.xs4all.nl)
Date: September 08, 2011 07:08PM
Treating global warming and the rising of sea levels from an unexpected perspective:
A confederacy of dunes, by John Kennedy Toole.
A confederacy of dunes, by John Kennedy Toole.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: ibborobb (217.196.236.---)
Date: September 09, 2011 01:24PM
Pterry's take on how shopping is the new religion: Mall Gods.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: Eoink (---.pete.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 11, 2011 05:13PM
Not forgetting his stunning work analysing the shades of the robes of the three wise men, the colour of magi.
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: annie (164.53.222.---)
Date: September 19, 2011 03:29AM
EB White's story of bondage Harlotte's Web
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 19, 2011 10:17AM
Blink 182's tale of retail therapy "All the Mall Things"
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: Eoink (---.range86-147.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 19, 2011 11:19AM
Currer Bell's introduction of a new character to East Enders, "Jane 'ere".
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.dyn.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 19, 2011 11:32AM
Emily Brontė's tale of vertigo "Withering Heights"
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: Eoink (---.range86-147.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 19, 2011 12:18PM
And to complete the family set, Anne Bronte's magisterial study of the late life colour of human hair "Ages Grey".
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: SkidMarks (62.6.182.---)
Date: September 21, 2011 02:42PM
Jerome K. Jerome is certainly prolific. I came across his yarn of cloning in the Royal Navy: "Three Me in a Boat".
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: Eoink (---.glfd-bam-2.adsl.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 22, 2011 02:36PM
SkidMarks Wrote:
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> Jerome K. Jerome is certainly prolific. I came
> across his yarn of cloning in the Royal Navy:
> "Three Me in a Boat".
As well as his careless reuse of an earlier title in the tale of a tragically unsuccessful snake hunt, "Three men in a boa", his cannibal vampire tale "three men in a bat", and the transcript of his address to the Royal Navy "thee men in a boat".
I'm a bit ashamed of this one, but there's also his tale of a cannibal cereal killer, "three men in a oat".
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> Jerome K. Jerome is certainly prolific. I came
> across his yarn of cloning in the Royal Navy:
> "Three Me in a Boat".
As well as his careless reuse of an earlier title in the tale of a tragically unsuccessful snake hunt, "Three men in a boa", his cannibal vampire tale "three men in a bat", and the transcript of his address to the Royal Navy "thee men in a boat".
I'm a bit ashamed of this one, but there's also his tale of a cannibal cereal killer, "three men in a oat".
Re: The Road to Wigan Pie
Posted by: geg (---.15-2.cable.virginmedia.com)
Date: September 25, 2011 10:17AM
Funny chap this Jerome K. Jerome,
What about his play?
"Robina's Wee"
What about his play?
"Robina's Wee"
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