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    Exciting New List Thread!

    Ten Books That Make You Look More Intelligent Than You Really Are or Meals You Make When There's No One Else Around

    1. A Remembrance of Things Past (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust

    2. Baked Beans over Spaghetti

    3. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

    4. Boiled Water with Soy Sauce

    5. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

    6. Life Cereal Straight From the Box

    7. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

    8. Fried Egg Sandwich With Ketchup

    9. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

    10. Toaster Oven Tuna Melt
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    1. Children of the New Forest. by Captain Marryat

    2. Egg, mushroom and vegemite on toast

    3. Orange isn't the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson

    4. Microwaved frozen dim sims with soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce

    5. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

    6. Dahl with fresh coriander

    7. The Fact of a Doorframe by Adrienne Rich

    8. Chilli tuna and cream chesse on ryvita

    9. The Unresponsive Bystander: Why doesn't he help? by John M Darley

    10. Penne pasta, olive oil and soft blue cheese.

    (The books make wonderful trays if I'm watching an interesting program on tv but don't tell anyone...)
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delta40 View Post
    (The books make wonderful trays if I'm watching an interesting program on tv but don't tell anyone...)
    An excellent suggestion, Delta. Just be prepared to toss them casually around the room if the doorbell rings.

    Oh, also anything by Joyce and jalapeño cheese on Ritz crackers, melted in a microwave.
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    Lol. I can't wait for lunch now. Might try Two Minute McGonagall Macaroni Cheese!
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

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    1 The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse.
    2 Cream crackers thickly spread with real (salted) butter and cheese or ham or pate or marmite or jam....
    3 War and Peace.
    4 Mashed feta and olives spread on hot toast with real butter.
    5 Heart of Darkness
    6 Chorizo omlette
    7 The bumper book of crossword puzzles.
    8 Crispy frazzles of cheese.
    9 Ulysses
    10 Friut salad and cream with museli sprinkled on top.
    ay up

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    Very classy, Prend. Oh, I left out The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and diced spam and pineapple bits on toothpicks. Genius is pain.

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    Sorry. I've done a variation on a theme from the original criteria. Must be my age and the way my brain works now.


    "The Pie That Came in From The Cold," Lorenzo De Carre.

    "Caesar Salad" by Ivana Trump.

    Sweet & Sour Griddled Brains with a strained Tripe Jus.

    "Go Tell It On The Mountain." Bear Grillis.

    " Merchant of Venice." Umberto Shakespeare. (Oh No, not the Bard was an Italian, thread again!!!)

    "Great Expectations." Vlad Putin.

    Pigs trotter Pizza with edible toe varnish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MANICHAEAN View Post
    Sorry. I've done a variation on a theme from the original criteria. Must be my age and the way my brain works now.
    You forgot Lime and Punishment by Fyodor Saucetoyevsky.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prendrelemick View Post
    1 The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse.
    2 Cream crackers thickly spread with real (salted) butter and cheese or ham or pate or marmite or jam....
    3 War and Peace.
    4 Mashed feta and olives spread on hot toast with real butter.
    5 Heart of Darkness
    6 Chorizo omlette
    7 The bumper book of crossword puzzles.
    8 Crispy frazzles of cheese.
    9 Ulysses
    10 Friut salad and cream with museli sprinkled on top.
    That food all sounds pretty fricken good.
    So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether

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    Quote Originally Posted by MANICHAEAN View Post
    Sorry. I've done a variation on a theme from the original criteria. Must be my age and the way my brain works now.


    "The Pie That Came in From The Cold," Lorenzo De Carre.

    "Caesar Salad" by Ivana Trump.

    Sweet & Sour Griddled Brains with a strained Tripe Jus.

    "Go Tell It On The Mountain." Bear Grillis.

    " Merchant of Venice." Umberto Shakespeare. (Oh No, not the Bard was an Italian, thread again!!!)

    "Great Expectations." Vlad Putin.

    Pigs trotter Pizza with edible toe varnish.
    Interesting variant!
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    1-Anything by Homer in Greek

    2-Potatoes cooked in their skin with melted butter or cream cheese.

    3- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Adorno and Horkheimer)-If not available any title containing "dialectic" will do.

    4-Noodles with ham, topped with apple sauce and rasps of cheese.

    5-A special edition of Dante´s Divine Comedy with footnotes.

    6-Yoghurt with cereals

    7-Finnegans Wake and/or Ulisses

    8-Mixed juice with whatever fruits, nuts and vegetables you got lost in your fridge.

    9- The complete works of the latest Nobel price winner- One has to be up to date!

    10-Mashed banana with cinammon + Romeu and Juliet (a slice of firm guava jam with a slice of white cheese)
    "I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
    Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danik 2016 View Post
    Mixed juice with whatever fruits, nuts and vegetables you got lost in your fridge.
    You slay me, sir!

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    Looking back over what I've read in the last couple of years:

    1. Veggie burger and chips
    2. Madame Bovary
    3. Tinned dahl + peas + rice
    4. Mrs Dalloway
    5. Tinned bombay potatoes + peas + rice
    6. Things Fall Apart
    7. Tinned leak and potato soup and bread
    8. Middlemarch
    9. Baked beans + veggie sausages on toast
    10. Don Quixote
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    According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
    Charles Dickens, by George Orwell

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    Quote Originally Posted by kev67 View Post
    Looking back over what I've read in the last couple of years:

    1. Moby Dick
    2. Madame Bovary
    3. The Trial
    4. Mrs Dalloway
    5. The Outsider
    6. Things Fall Apart
    7. Daniel Deronda
    8. Middlemarch
    9. Focault's Pendulum
    10. Don Quixote


    Not as bad as I thought. I thought I was far more pretentious.
    You look hungry, Kev. (Why is this such a difficult concept?)

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