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- Fri June 17th, 2011, 1:30 pm
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What Are You Reading? June 2011.
- Replies: 178
- Views: 16201
[quote=""Vanessa""]I'm just about to start The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht - it won the Orange Prize for Fiction. Mine's a library copy and it's due back soon. I can't renew it as it now has a queue for it!! Funny what winning a prize does for a book![/quote] The paperback is out this week if that's ...
- Fri June 17th, 2011, 1:26 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Cheesy Cover Caption Contest Round 16
- Replies: 12
- Views: 807
- Fri April 15th, 2011, 9:38 am
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Crimson Petal & The White by Michel Faber
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3946
[quote=""Vanessa""]Another excellent episode last night. The queries earlier in this thread regarding Mrs Castaway and William Rackham's daughter were solved last night![/quote] Indeed :) I'd remembered the reveal about Mrs Castaway being much later in the book, but it's a few years now since I read...
- Mon April 11th, 2011, 8:17 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Crimson Petal & The White by Michel Faber
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3946
SPD that's a major spoiler for those who haven't read the book!!! I really enjoyed the first episode - it caught the knowing, ironic tone of the book, which I thought might be lost among the corsets and bustles, and the casting was excellent. The guy who played William Rackham was spot on - just idi...
- Sun April 10th, 2011, 3:03 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: Borgias
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1096
- Wed March 30th, 2011, 11:30 am
- Forum: Archives
- Topic: What Are You Reading? March 2011
- Replies: 230
- Views: 23089
- Wed March 30th, 2011, 11:22 am
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Eagle (of the Ninth)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3773
[quote=""Sintra""]Was it good? I wish someone would make a show about the Plantagenets now! Tudors were boring in comparison :( [/quote] I'm not sure...don't think it quite worked, though I do remember Brian Cox being perfect as Henry. I also remember Arthur of the Britons - which thankfully didnt' ...
- Tue March 29th, 2011, 9:40 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: The Eagle (of the Ninth)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3773
I remember The Devil's Crown! It was in about 1978 and starred Brian Cox as H2 and Jane Lapotaire as El. I remember it being very stylised, an attempt to capitalise on the (then) recent success of I Claudius. I also fondly remember the beeb version of Eagle of the Ninth , which must have been from a...
- Thu March 10th, 2011, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: A Caption the cover contest at Smart Bitches
- Replies: 8
- Views: 672
- Fri January 21st, 2011, 1:47 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: The best thing today
- Replies: 2019
- Views: 136427