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Posted by Cep on 27-05-2004 at 21:51:

...I got em! Catchchicken

....oo... Chicken ....maybe not Ooh

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Posted by Elvin Ruler on 28-05-2004 at 03:23:

*watches as the thoughts float around the forum*

Ooooh...pretty...

*grabs one*

Hmmm. Nope, this one doesn't work. Er...do you want it, Drive? I could try to shove it in your ear...or something... Erm1

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Posted by meridianday on 06-06-2004 at 17:48:

There's a book I ordered from Amazon, and waited for quite a while for. It's "McIndoe's Army", about Archibald McIndoe and the Guinea Pig Club. McIndoe was a surgeon who developed quite a reputation working to reconstruct badly burned WW2 airmen, and the Guinea Pig Club were his patients, so named because many of the surgical techniques they endured as part of their repairs had never been done before. It's a true and utterly human story, which the author clearly believes should tell itself. Which is unfortunate, because stories don't tell themselves at all. He appears to have made a load of notes, shuffled them together in any order so that an even number of pages equalled a chapter, and sent them off to be published. So this story of people trying to get their lives back when the RAF would have happily sent them into institutions to avoid frightening the public is extremely difficult to pick out from the author's disorganised writing and apparent decision to write everything in a way that would mean nobody could be upset by the subject matter.

What a terrible book about such a fascinating and brave bunch of people.

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Posted by imaqtz on 04-07-2004 at 13:49:

Im wondering here...would you call these badly written books..Kitch?

Big Grin

oooh Crap!..Kitchz>?...How the heck is that word spelt??

WHy am I even attempting to type after four glasses fo Red?!

AArgh...please someone help me with the correct spelling of the word..its gonna haunt me all night to try and find the right way of spelling it!!!!!

AAARGHH...

Erm3 Erm3 Erm3

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Posted by meridianday on 04-07-2004 at 15:44:

Kitsch? I'm not sure...

Thing is, the book I was complaining about shouldn't be kitsch, it should be a fascinating factual book. I've now given up on it altogether because it is so appallingly written.

But Savage Thunder (you know I found out this morning that there is an online agony column called Savage Love, and my immediate thought was that it must be done by this romantic fic writer? but it isn't), and all that, that just has to be kitsch. Especially if the covers are pink with shiny letters and big colourful sunsets all over them, with people with shiny limbs and lots of makeup despite them not having access to any. Yeah, definitely.

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