Exciting New List Thread!

[Pompey Bum]

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

[Delta40]

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...)

[Pompey Bum]

(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.

[Delta40]

Lol. I can't wait for lunch now. Might try Two Minute McGonagall Macaroni Cheese!

[prendrelemick]

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.

[Pompey Bum]

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

[MANICHAEAN]

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.

[Pompey Bum]

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.

[Clopin]

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.

[Danik 2016]

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!

[Danik 2016]

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[Danik 2016]

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)

[Pompey Bum]

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

:lol: You slay me, sir!

[kev67]

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


Veggie burger and chips
Madame Bovary
Tinned dahl + peas + rice
Mrs Dalloway
Tinned bombay potatoes + peas + rice
Things Fall Apart
Tinned leak and potato soup and bread
Middlemarch
Baked beans + veggie sausages on toast
Don Quixote

[Pompey Bum]

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


Moby Dick
Madame Bovary
The Trial
Mrs Dalloway
The Outsider
Things Fall Apart
Daniel Deronda
Middlemarch
Focault's Pendulum
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?)

[kev67]

Oh yes, I see. I'll edit my response later.

[mona amon]

The Divine Comedy by Dante
2. Leftover chapathi with leftover veggies
3. Capital by Karl Marx
4. Bread and condensed milk
5. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
6. Bread and butter
7. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
8. Instant noodles
9.Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
10. Cream crackers and hummus if any (hummus, I mean. Cream crackers are always there)


4. Boiled Water with Soy Sauce

Trying to imagine how that would work. When I was a kid and there used to be a lot of cream around, I used to have bread with cream mixed with soy sauce, and it was delicious.


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

My list in contrast would actually belong to "Five Books I'll Probably Never Read in My Life."

[prendrelemick]

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


Veggie burger and chips
Madame Bovary
Tinned dahl + peas + rice
Mrs Dalloway
Tinned bombay potatoes + peas + rice
Things Fall Apart
Tinned leak and potato soup and bread
Middlemarch
Baked beans + veggie sausages on toast
Don Quixote


Don Quixote is ok, but I couldn't eat a whole one at one sitting.

Looking round my lounge at the moment there is only The Screwfix Catalogue and a few bits of orange peel to be seen. Once again reality falls short of ideal.

[Pompey Bum]

Trying to imagine how that would work. When I was a kid and there used to be a lot of cream around, I used to have bread with cream mixed with soy sauce, and it was delicious.

It's an ancient Chinese secret, Mona, but because we're pals:

Soy Sauce Soup

1. Boil water in small saucepan.

2. Add soy sauce to taste.

My father in law taught me this recipe when I was first married. He said a good husband helps with the cooking.

[Clopin]

1. Poetry Anthologies

2. Peanut butter and jam on bread/toast

3. The Divine Comedy

4. Plain pasta with butter/salt and pepper, and anything that might go with that, cheese, etc.

5. Greek/Roman Classics

6. 4-7 bananas

7. Joyce's Ulysses (oops I haven't read it)

8. Toast and butter

9. Stuff by well known philosophers, Schopenhauer, Kant, Locke, etc

10. Sardines on toast

I don't really buy snackfood/convenience food much, and I actually do a lot of cooking. It's sort of an issue sometimes if I end up hungry at night because it usually means I have to get up and cook something. I don't really buy bread or cereal, etc.

[prendrelemick]

4 -7 Bananas?

[Pompey Bum]

4-7 bananas

I make myself stop after four--more and I'll be swinging from the chandeliers. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are also good.