It was a dirty job but someone had to do it I guess. Not sure Libya is any better off.
Why does every ruler the US backs become an enemy? The US backed, for example, Ho Chi Man, Fidel Castro, etc.
It was a dirty job but someone had to do it I guess. Not sure Libya is any better off.
Why does every ruler the US backs become an enemy? The US backed, for example, Ho Chi Man, Fidel Castro, etc.
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
Because the U.S. becomes too much of an overbearing parent and they feel the need to rebel.
I am totally drawing a blank for a question so same question
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
How come women statistically read quite a bit more than men do but this literature forum only has a couple female posters?
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
Good question. It's weird, too, because according to the site stats (I think), the ratio is fairly even. Come back Ms. Reading!
What is the least appealing city you have ever visited?
Delhi, nothing else is even in the running... Oh, least appealing? Well I found Delhi appealing for it's foreignness, so to me personally it might be Port Coquitlam... or Surray... or Burnaby.
And I know right? I think the stats for hobbyist readers who read fiction strongly favour women over men.
Same question about horrible cities.
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
My least favorite city is L.A. Most the time the sky is litterally bown. And I don't jive with the people there.
What is the best city you have been to?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
The least appealing city I have visited in Wuhan, the over-populated and over-heated capital of China's Hubei province, which discharges its abundant sewage into the otherwise lovely Yangtze River. My lingering memory of Wuhan is eating. at a greasy restaurant (although cosmopolitan enough to have a polyglot menu: "roast vegetarian," "boiled crap," etc.), and watching a father remove the pants of his toddler-age son, then hold him up for a pee into a potted plant next to my table. Oklahoma City is nothing to write home about, either.
The "best" city I've seen, in terms of beauty and atmosphere, is Venice.
What is the most insipid book you have ever read?
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I have to say All the King's Men by Robert Penn Waren. There were a couple of interesting passages but the majority of the book I found to be insufferably boring. I saw the movie before reading the book and was disappointed in it but as soon as I read the book i knew why the movie was so uninteresing.
Most laugh out loud funny book you have read?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
There some laugh out loud moments in Straight Man by Richard Russo (also Nobody's Fool by the same author) and, more recently, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. None of those are primarily comedies (except maybe Straight Man, which is academic farce), but the funny parts are better for that.
What is the scariest scene that you have ever read (and obviously from what book)?
this might be sacrilege to some, but I am a vociferous opponent of a catcher in the rye, and moby dick, and id add an accidental tourist to the insipid list too.
I so wanted moby dick to be a high seas adventure, a drama, not a treatise on whaling for goodness sake.
Patrick McManus books make me laugh out loud. I recommend anyone who likes the outdoors to read him.
I read a fair deal of murder mysteries and sometimes the situations the psychopaths put their victims in are "scary" but none of them have really impacted me in that regard. Winston, in 1984, with a caged rat on his head comes to mind...but I think the scariest for me and im probably going off in a direction different than the intent of the question, was Sydney Carton (spoiler alert for a tale of two cities) willingly being hauled off in the cart on his way to the guillotine at the end of the book. I found myself strongly identifying with dickens' writing, and the situation to the point where I remember being affected by it---not quite like I was living it, but along those lines.
what movie ending would you like to change?
Any forced happy ending. Eliza Dolittle ought to leave Henry Higgins like she does in Shaw's play, the Little Mermaid should dissolve into sea foam like she does in the Hans Christian Andersen story, etc. Does Quasimodo survive the Disney version of Hunchback? Whack him, too.
Who is the best minor Dickens character?
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Miss Wade in Little Dorrit
What is is the best show on TV right now?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
VEEP - very sharp writing, alot of ironic dry humour(especially considering it's American), love it.
What is your favourite television show not produced in the country of your residency?
Orphan Black
What is your favorite News Network?
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Al Jazeera America... similar in look and feel to the BBC, except with more energy.
If you could own any car, what would you be driving?
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