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I was talking to Bloke last night about all the stuff people have been posting since I joined and all the interesting and bizarre discussions, barfights, and marriage proposals that have gone on in just the last couple of months.

I'm not dying or anything, just thought I'd say, is all. It's nice here. It's like meeting your friends, without all that tedious getting dressed and putting your teeth in and so on.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly we are all dying, slowly?

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope no-one else turns up, on I Love Books.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnily enough, the PF and I were discussing you over the weekend, 'monkey (it might have been in one of the longeurs during the first half of Charlton v Birmingham), and we now need to verify: is you is, or is you not, related to the famous Dublin Byrne dynasty of interweb mentalism?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mean I hope no-one else turns up on I Love I Love Books.

It is minimalist at present.

― the mylesfox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

O, look: someone has.

No, JtN, it was outside that good boozer.

I'm convinced.

― the byrdfox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The funny thing is, until recently I used to think that the Monkey, if that is its proper title, was a American lawyer, probably married to a ... a highfibrediet wife, with a ... a demanding but rewarding baby.

Why?

That is a question.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mean 'I'm convinced' about the boozer: I know, about the boozer.

It really was quite good. Yet, the strange thing was the recurrent coldness of the sunnylooking spring air.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Possibly JtN has set the correct lead, and ''monkey', rather than 'Monkey', is the proper ... moniker.

― the beefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, not me, guys, on either count. I'm a friend of the Vicar's. And I consider fibre to be something you make ropes out of. Blessed be.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There are certain patterns that new posters seem to follow. Initially they think everyone else is better read than them and are reluctant to argue or defend a viewpoint in too strong a manner (I mean people who arrive from website links, not the ones from the other related boards).

The 25 words thread is the definition of flogging a dead horse. Perhaps it can be locked or made to go and live on a farm in Shropshire or something.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

That raises the question: why is the Vicar not on ILB?

Perhaps I am tempting fate.

― the finefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the cat's bum is the Vicar?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not telling.

― the beefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Then I shall care not a jot

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, let's not have a lot of fussin' and feudin' and nose up-turnin'.

The Dirty Vicar, long time denizen of ILE and ILM, does cruise through here every so often, but I guess he just doesn't heart books as much as we do. Or not the kind that we do. Maybe.

I agree with Mikey. Being shy as a newcomer on a board like this is pointless. If all you ever say in your posts is 'oh, I'm so thick,' well then, the reader has no choice but to believe you.

I also agree that the 25 words game has created confusion and should be put out of its misery, perhaps by giving it its own board.

Right, time to go home. Log off the shop computer, log on at home. Hooray for the interweb.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The Vicar only likes books about Russia and Palestine.

I think he is waiting for a board dedicated only to them.

― the finefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree with the initial thought: I [heart] Books is quite nice. I posted a lot when I first started coming here but I'm not really relating to some of the discussions going on now. Which makes me want to start the "Should I be reading during sex?" thread I've wished would appear.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yah, and someone bring "25 words or less" to a farm and tell everyone it's living out it's golden years in peace (but really, just kill it and bury it in the backyard).

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Should you be reading about sex during reading?

Or thinking about sex while reading?

Those are other, different questions.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

As you already know, you rock Monkey -- I {heart} I Love Books too.

I always pointed out two important things in dating, don't rumple the pages of the books that fall off my bookshelf headboard during sex and for f*cks sake, don't spill the Guinness on them either... I only dated those that smiled and got on with the romancing. Those that asked questions were shown the door.

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it too! It was a great place to go to during a looooooooooooong long winter here. ILX in general helped me keep my sanity during a lot of dark cold days on this island i call home. I'm really glad that other people are enjoying it as well.

Vermont Girl. I think that is a common similarity between all message boards: there will always be times when the subjects being discussed don't float yer boat. Happens to me on ILM all the time, and then something excellent comes up and i'm glad i hung around.

RE: 25 Words. Yeesh, i don't know what to think anymore. Conveniently, I can just blame Mikey, but I don't know if I should lock the thread or anything. I try and steer clear of ever messing with the board. I've only messed with a thread ONCE, and that was just to get rid of a duplicate thread. (someone had started the same thread twice, somehow.) I still haven't done anything about categories for threads. I'm terribly lazy. Maybe I will let someone else do that. They are all uncategorized now, obviously. It hasn't been that big a deal so far, cuz there aren't a zillion threads. But in the future...

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I should mention that my friend Donald looooves the poetry thread. He posts on there sometimes. He's a poet as well. I like that I've been able to get off-line people i know to check out ILB.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yah, I blame Mikey too.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

And then he goes and tries to start MORE internet crazes on here! He's a menace.He must be stopped.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Literally (embarassing personal revelation) stopped mid act, as it were, the other night to retrieve book from floor after it had been sent flying by carnal gymnastics. Me standing next to bed inspecting book with a half a dowsing kit lower torso. Valuable cover not damaged. Lucky for me gf equally solicitous of book's well-being and we resumed our frolic. Later still resumed reading. Bliss. Am I blessed or hopeless?

This is a question I would only ask at ILB>

25 words or less= DUD

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, Michael. Let's keep it G-rated, okay? Sheesh, I bring up books + sex and you bring up "carnal gymnastics"? [Bewildered] Where did that come from? [Shrugs] It's all right, I believe you, man. So you're, like, you know, one of the few people in the world getting laid on, like, a regular basis. Maybe you need to be more sympathetic to people who haven't have sex since 1984. Eh? And I mean the book, not the year.

Excuse me whilst I... I'm just gonna to go... Yah, I'm just going to sit here.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry VG, even I'm not sure where that came from. Made me giggle the other night though. And, btw, you are the one who registered for a meat tenderizer so I don't feel totally strange yet.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

touche

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

VG-There's a short story by Roddy Doyle called "The Slave" that deals with the question of reading during sex, note that you may end up naming your progeny after the characters...Is this safer or more dangerous than "carnal gymnastics" considering the names of some fictional characters? (or what you may be reading whilst nookie-ing?)

More on topic. I'm new to I Love Books and it's very nice indeed.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I am checking the thread title. Checking, checking. No, I'm pretty sure I didn't say 'I love the new all-nude I Love Books burlesque revue'. But maybe I misspelled something.

I especially like the poetry threads on here. They remind me that I used to like to read poetry back in the long ago. And that maybe I should start again. I reckon that Sean O'Brien might be a good place to start.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Edwin Morgan thread (Edwin Morgan)definitely led me to buy his collected works. There's all sorts of stuff on here that's inspiring or aggravating and I love that.

Sorry, monkey, for the off-thread pornographic memoir above.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, you look real sorry. Sorry like a fox.

I'm off to bed. This Cook biography gets one more shot at the title, and then it's back to the donation bin for it. Night all.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Monkey, ILBooks, too, but it's a constant battle to keep up with all the pop-up ads every fifteen seconds inviting me to send for some Viagara or get a college degree online. (I have a degree and don't need viagara). Nevertheless, the fight is worth it! You all ROCK! I have enjoyed your company!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a most excellent place, and I'm so glad I was reading the Bookslut blog when Jessa mentioned it. Too many great suggestions have increased the "so many books, so little time" equation exponentially. The to-be-read pile is dangerously high; the bookshelves are burgeoning. Summer is coming; life is good.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's great.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I love I love books but I get all tangled up in foxes.

― slow learner (slow learner), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but it's a constant battle to keep up with all the pop-up ads every fifteen seconds

Why do you see pop-up ads when looking at ILB??? YOu are the second person i have heard this from in regard to ILX. Is it a computer/browser thing that i don't understand? ILX is blissfully ad-free.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Spyware is the answer. People who get them on this board (and use Windows) should go to Lavasoft and download the free version of Adaware, to rinse their computer of some evils.

I love being off-topic.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I take the blame for the 25 words thing, I didn't realise it would Frankenstein. It doesn't even make sense anymore.

The new 25 word threads are skewering this site a little.

I like the poetry thread. I've never posted on it because I know little about poetry, but I like reading it all the same.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the poetry thread is great; and, if you haven't, you should check out the sean o'brien thread too, it's great.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

As I suppose the godfather of I Love Books, I don't really post here much. One of the things is that several posters seem to be the sort of people who love books and little else, and I can't really relate to that sort of person (=will run screaming). A similar thing keeps me out of I Love Film. I note that ILB has siphoned off books-related discussion from ILE completely, unlike ILF. Though there was a lot less to start with, in fairness.

If JtN is inquiring about accentmonkey's connection to Lara/Nickie Byrne, there isn't one, to the best of my knowledge. (which 'monkey already said, I know)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"...is that several posters seem to be the sort of people who love books and little else"

How do you know? You are talking about people on a site called I Love Books talking about how they love books. They probably read more than the average person (and I include myself in that), but to say they like little else is bollocks.

"I note that ILB has siphoned off books-related discussion from ILE completely, unlike ILF. Though there was a lot less to start with, in fairness."

Where is this happening? A couple of threads perhaps, but there is less talk about books on ILE than there used to be. Natural when you've got a site called I Love Books.

I'm not disagreeing with you simply for contrariness sake, you just seem to have sketchy knowledge of what you're on about.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

there is less talk about books on ILE than there used to be.

Why are you agreeing with me so vehemently?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

As to the other thing, I'm not going to name names - if you can't think of anyone, then you don't agree with my reasons for me not posting much. Knock yourself out there, son.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Farrell, you are the quare goose and no mistake.

― the beebfox, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, stop being an idiot, Andrew! What's with this Godfather nonsense? Your sense of humour?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't being entirely serious, no. It was about I Love Books

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"One of the things is that several posters seem to be the sort of people who love books and little else, and I can't really relate to that sort of person (=will run screaming)."

I also love pie. Pumpkin, apple, pecan, peach... Alas, there is no I Love Pie board. So I guess I'll have to stay here for now.

― Jessa (Jessa), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The trouble with people who eat pies is they like pies and nothing else.

I just googled myself and found a namesake who is a porn star selling gay DVD's. Thought I'd share that with you. It's not me. HONEST.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The thread Andrew links to is quite interesting. Someone even suggests an I Love Literature board.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It is.

Tim H even backs me up on something.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 21 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I REALLY Love Poetry! (And yes, the pop-ups are constantly --well, popping up. Offering hardcore porn, a way to consolidate my bills,oops, there's one now... haven't found one yet selling gay dvds). I just bought Sharon olds "Blood, Tin, Straw." I think some of the best books I've read lately have come from suggestions from this site. Just finishing up "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," and and "If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things." Both found here. I am taking "Running With Scissors" with me to the Philippines next month--21 hours to read on the airplane.... THANKS, y'all!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

PS I even loved the diversion of our little drinking party and seeing Amy's picture with Neal!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I never saw that ILE thread. I love ILE too. And the book/movie threads on there are usually my faves. People still start lit threads on ILE though, don't they? I started ILB cuz i was bored and the long cold winter was driving me buggy and cuz i thought it would be a cool place for bookworms to hang out. And it is! But, jeez, i love pie. I Love Pie in retrospect would have been better. I could live on pie.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

And yes, the pop-ups are constantly --well, popping up.

You need to go to Lavasoft and get Ad-aware. Seriously.

Scott: I think they've mostly died out. I think.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing is, when I'm messing about posting stuff on the internet, it usually means I'm not reading the books I keep meaning to read.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Are people better or worse because they don't have televisions or they don't read books? My Dad doesn't read books. In fact, my brothers don't really read books either. But that doesn't make me better than them in any way I can think of. It just makes me more likely to win at a pub quiz. I know people who have televisions who don't give a shite one way or the other, but I don't like it when people think they're somwehow better than me because they don't have televisions.

On the other hand, I was astounded by how much I wanted to shout at Lost In Translation "if you're so bored, why don't you read a fucking book?"

I read a lot more now than I used to about five years ago. And I never used to read non-fiction at all until I discovered the joys of pop history. And not going out. Not going out gives me a lot of time to read, I find. I can't wait till I'm retired.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I get that. At current rates of purchase and reading, I may have to retire next year. Tricky...

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

When I saw Lost In Translation I wanted to shout: "If you are so bored why don't you go outside? Tokyo is cool!"

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I love I Love Books because there seems to be a genuine friendliness and helpfulness that is oddly absent elsewhere on ILx these days.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My Pop-Ups are GONE!!! Many thanks....

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 22 April 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was reading the end of The Man who was Thursday while watching Airplane II last night. A bottle of Sardinian wine wandered in and stayed for a while. A deep pan cheese feast pizza made a brief appearance too.

The Man who Was Thursday has a crazier ending than Airplane II.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not seen Lost In Translation, but there is generally a glaring lack of people reading in films. I suppose that, much like going to the toilet, it is considered a rather boring/innapropriate spectacle for cinema.

But I think you could make a rather nice short/art film of people reading - their preferred place to do so, their posture, reactions, eye movements etc. Maybe this has been done already.

I set fire to a book while having sex once. (Accidentally.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

In Scarlett's defence, I'm pretty sure she was reading in Lost in Translation.

― jel, Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"I set fire to a book while having sex once. (Accidentally.)"

Come on then, out with the story (or is this the one to be published?)

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In Scarlett's defence, I'm pretty sure she was reading in Lost in Translation

I saw her flick through a couple of magazines, but that's about all I remember. The only reason I noted any of this is because her character mentioned that she had a degree in philosophy. Surely, I thought, you could read a book to amuse yourself then?

However, having been in the situation of being in a strange place where you're kind of nervous to go out on your own and you're waiting for Bloke to come back from whatever it is he's doing all day, I can testify that reading only really holds your attention for so long. Wishing you were somewhere else eventually sets in.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that is oddly absent elsewhere on ILx these days

Really? That's a shame. When all my mates starting posting on ILX they were very happy in their new little community. But I guess all good things come to an end sooner or later, or get swallowed up by bigger things and so appear to have come to an end.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing is, when I'm messing about posting stuff on the internet, it usually means I'm not reading the books I keep meaning to read.

I just mentioned on another thread that I sometimes forget books very quickly after I've read them, and indeed I forget bits of books that I'm still reading. One of the things that stops me from doing this is talking about the book after I've read it. It seals it in my mind in a concrete way and it's much easier for me to recall the conversation I had about the book than the book itself.

Which is another reason why I like it here. Because this is my little conversation about what I've just read, which I can recall later on if necessary, and it's not just my thoughts unchallenged, which it would be if it was my diary. So, hooray.

Okay, I really must get some work done now.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 22 April 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Full story (not v exciting): in the ahem heat of the moment my bedside lamp was knocked over but understandably neither party could be bothered to retrieve it. The exposed bulb fell against a book that was on the floor at the time and after a while it began to burn through the pages. (The book was The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Full story (not v exciting):"

How about:

There were four of us. All naked. I began with the twin midgets. The fire eater warmed my toes as I indulged them. I kicked out in ecstasy and a blast of flame shot through the airline toilet, singeing my copy of the Kama Sutra.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Scarlett reads in the scene where she's in the tub.
but I think it was a self-help book!
also she had her earphones on? I don't get that.

― slow learner (slow learner), Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I read and listen to music at the same time, what's so weird about it?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't mean to imply it was weird. just can't do it myself.
maybe she was listening to audiobooks!

― slow learner (slow learner), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

You can't read and listen to Scandinavian death metal. No sir.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 22 April 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno, I'm pretty sure I've listened to Dimmu Borgir whilst reading.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 April 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

there is generally a glaring lack of people reading in films. I suppose that, much like going to the toilet, it is considered a rather boring/innapropriate spectacle for cinema.

Which, I suppose, is one of the reasons why John Travolta reading Madame Bovary on the toilet in Pulp Fiction is such an unusual scene.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 23 April 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know it was that buik.

I wonder why I didn't, or don't, know.

― the beebfox, Friday, 23 April 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know that either. But I am notoriously unobservant.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

That cannot be.

You are a peot.

― the beefox, Friday, 23 April 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird, as I thought he was reading Modesty Blaise.
Or are there several bathroom scenes? I seem to recall him heading there quite a few times in the movie.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it was, Oystein, maybe it was. My eyesight isn't up to much, and one MB book looks much like another to me.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Øystein's right, now that I think about it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, now that I think about it even more, I think I don't know why I thought it could have been Madame Bovary. My eyesight really must have been for shit in 1994 (before I started wearing glasses).

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 23 April 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Farrell is right.

He uses strange 'O's as well.

― the beefox, Friday, 23 April 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: 25 Words Or Less...I introduced a friend to ILB and she used the 25 Words format for one of her college classes - had students compare two books while answering a question using the format, so even if it has had its day, it is being applied in a useful way. That's a poem. ILB distracts me from my homework, and I am determined to finish my degree before menopause, but besides that it is the greatest thing since rhubarb pie.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Saturday, 24 April 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"I am determined to finish my degree before menopause, but besides that it is the greatest thing since rhubarb pie." --aimurchie

AMEN, sister, on both counts!

― yesabibliophile (yesabibliophile), Sunday, 25 April 2004 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I love and miss I Love Books. I've pissed away the last month letting my ()*#&$&*)($& boss drive me to a nervous breakdown. To quote Space March:

"The pressure they make
is getting me down
I need a book
and no one around..."

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

We aren't going anywhere, Ann. We'll be here when you have the time. (All the books around us have blocked the exits.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott writes "All the books around us have blocked the exits," which reminds me that I had a near catastrophe in the bedroom last night when precarious stacks of hardcovers and paperbacks were momentarily dislodged by my weighty tabby cat seeking to annihilate a bug. I got a bump on the noggin from that damn John McWhorter book I've been plugging away at for six weeks.

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a broken pinky finger due to ILB!

― aimurchie, Thursday, 29 April 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I should flesh out that statement. I have a broken finger due to the Poetry Thread! I wanted my beloved to read "The Pope's Penis". He's Catholic, although within the six years we have been together I have seen him at church once - when he was a pallbearer.Bur he got really upset at the idea of the poem "The Pope's Penis" So... I said "No, you have to read it, or at least read the other poems! and he said "No! I'm not reading that stuff!". And I was sitting in a chair and he was standing, and I reached for him as he turned away, and my finger got caught and wrenched and broken.
I was reaching for him to MAKE him read some poetry - so my grip was very fierce. I believe I am the first reported ILB injury. I sort of hope INJURIES could be a thread.

― aimurchie, Thursday, 29 April 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I luv it too, and miss it. Like ann, work has been dragging me down and I'm mostly posting on ilm (with music being my no 1 luv). Interesting how this place seems to have pretty much finished any book discussion on ile but I don't mind that. Not intended but excellent stuff. well done everybody.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 2 May 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it simply the economy or have all the bosses decided to go power- mad at once? There's a science fiction in here somewhere, I think, if I had *#$ time to write it...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Monday, 3 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(There have been threads on Joyce and on Wilde and Firbank recently on ILE; I'm pretty sure there's as much book talk there as there ever was.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there's less. A few posters seemed to have made the leap over to ILB for book discussions.

ILB seems to have slowed down a bit over the past few weeks. Are people becoming disillusioned? Do we need to post photos of our bottoms to generate new interest?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.illusionsgallery.com/titania-L.jpg

In the UK at least, it has been quite warm and sunny, which may have contributed to a slight atrophying of the book muscles.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think most regular posters are busy reading otherwise Accent Monkey will be cross. It's pissing down at the moment. Where is everyone?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just waiting for Accent Monkey.

― the finefox, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

well, I'm new here, and consequently shy and not that confident with the language, but I promise I'll try and do my best...

― misshajim (strand), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That sentence sounds fine to me. My first language is Essex, so don't worry about grammar and all that stuff, innit.

Don't be shy. It's a shame if there are people reading the site who are scared to contribute. This is a polite forum. We drink tea as we write. Apart from that Fox bloke above. I've never met him but he's probably tattooed and drinks beer of 9% volume.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been busy arguing with clients and trying to re-seed my dead lawn. both fruitless. today I look to ILB for comfort, know that I can find it in the poetry thread.

― slow learner (slow learner), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Personally I alternate between drinking the polite tea and the rakish absinthe when reading...We can all be fruitful and start new threads while waiting for Accent Monkey.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been spending more and more time hanging out at the corner, smoking crack and getting into fights with the I Love Comics guys. Books? Shit, man. Who needs 'em? Am I right or am I right? I'm right, right? Anyway, I think it's just a phase (the black leather jackets, kicking the tar out of all the people leaving my local library, telling them to read better material and shoving rolled-up comics up their butts) and I should be going back to books any day now. I think I just got read out, is all. Too many words, not enough pictures.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

As the weather gets better and better, all I want to read is comics. Big, wonderful comics. I've already spent way too much money on them, even after scamming my local newspaper into letting me write a comics round-up for them, thereby scamming review copies of nearly every single comic out on the market right now. But still! Not enough!

― Jessa (Jessa), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm jealous, Jessa, of all the review/free books that you must have.
All I want to read is comics lately, too. I think getting halfway through Pale Fire broke my brain. I will soon return to novels, but for now it's the weird world of Alan Moore.

Slightly OT-I love I love books because it is safe from the Dear Abby "i rilly lik this goy i need to kno what to do" space aliens that have taken over ILX.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

come back ann! I will get round to reading 'the ballad of reading gaol.'

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

A bit belated, but I like this place, too. And I do nip in and read when I can, but I've been spending most of my time, well, reading ink placed on paper instead of this computer screen. But this board is rarely far from my mind. And, darn it, I really get a kick out of some of the regulars here. Thanks *waving and going back to her book*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 8 May 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel strangely attached to ILB. Perhaps because I am an "adult student - or "non-traditional" - studying media criticism. I haven't been posting much (every few days as opposed to every four hours) because media crit. is requiring five papers that, essentially, are analyses of the occupation of Iraq. And, well, I'll leave the rest up to your imaginations. It's finals - and besides a few exams (about Iraq), I have these 10 page papers...so, tonight, for example, I feel like I have left the horror behind. The Poetry Thread often resonates the emotions I have about these events. other threads force me to think about favorite books as a child, or how I really feel about Keats; some threads I don't even understand. Literature - fuck it, BOOKS - have always been my solace when the world "too full of weeping" has become an antagonist. ILB serves the same purpose. Sniff sniff. xo

― aimurchie, Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone remember a Ray Bradbury story where most of the world has been destroyed by war, and the books, along with the rest, but thousands of people have memorized entire books, so each BECOMES that book, in effect, and passes it along in an oral tradition (like Maori genealogies). aimurchie, you can be Keats. bibliophile can be ee cummings. If it should come right down to it, I will be Dylan Thomas.

Good luck with your papers. (The world is to much with us...) Take solace where you find it

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Sunday, 9 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Memorizing before burning was what the Book People did in "Farenheit 451".

― Rabin the Cat (Rabin the Cat), Sunday, 9 May 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Aha! Then that is probably what I am remembering?!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 10 May 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

'too full of weeping' as in 'The Stolen Child'?

Nice.

― the finefox, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

When I'm feeling anxious there's always some solace to be found in Yeats.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes - despite his silliness?

― the finefox, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The beauty of later Yeats and his fears justifies his silly early work. It's one of the most interesting transformations in a writer, I think.

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure justifies is the right word...

― Jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Boring trivia of the day, Farenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper burns.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I see the silliness as merely early. Far from it.

I agree that his transformations fascinate.

― the finefox, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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