Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

michaels

That doesn't rhyme or scan?

Generally he is such a happy go lucky child and the main problem is stopping him run around like crazy .....

lostinrates wrote: »

You poor things. Is he any better now? He's had a rough old winter. Hope everyone sleeps better tonight.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

That doesn't rhyme or scan?

Generally he is such a happy go lucky child and the main problem is stopping him run around like crazy .....

N'ah, not going it a way now i've been told its worth something. . I did consider suggesting a page of np rhyming only posts....

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I've not read it, sorry. What is scary about it?

I'd say that the scariest bit is the slow realisation that our criminal justice system isn't very good at finding criminals and finding them guilty. This isn't a dig at barristers, or the judiciary, or police, rather the system as a whole. Also how much politics plays a role in things and changes stuff around, not always for the good. The funny bits are mainly anecdotal. There's a fair bit about the difference between clerks and barristers and how barristers get sent to horrible magistrates courts and youth courts in the back and beyond because they are at the bottom of the pile - just out of pupilage and not yet in residency.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Have you read his latest? I've not, but OH did and ranted long, loud and hard about how awful it was.

It's strange given how prolific he is, but the two books you see taken out all the time, even though they are both pretty old now, are Birdsong and Engelby. The Bond stuff has a different audience. I get the impression that because he doesn't write to series he isn't one of those authors that people want to go through his body of work.

Incidentally, if anyone does like particular authors and wants to read books in order, this is a great website:

https://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's strange given how prolific he is, but the two books you see taken out all the time, even though they are both pretty old now, are Birdsong and Engelby. The Bond stuff has a different audience. I get the impression that because he doesn't write to series he isn't one of those authors that people want to go through his body of work.

Incidentally, if anyone does like particular authors and wants to read books in order, this is a great website:

https://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

What a wonderful, wonderful site. Have found a beloved author has written more than i knew about and i have stuff to put on wish list for birthday and christmas:j. Joy, oh, joy, oh joy :j:j

Doozergirl

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's strange given how prolific he is, but the two books you see taken out all the time, even though they are both pretty old now, are Birdsong and Engelby. The Bond stuff has a different audience. I get the impression that because he doesn't write to series he isn't one of those authors that people want to go through his body of work.

Incidentally, if anyone does like particular authors and wants to read books in order, this is a great website:

www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

Thanks. According to that, I have read his latest if that is still A Week in December, but it was a while back now. It wasn't what I was expecting. I didn't not enjoy it, but nowhere near as much as the others.

GDB2222

Just popped in to say hi - have deadlines for an important report this week, so I'm working far too late.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

We kept DS out of hospital over the weekend but at the cost of him being given steroids

Poor DS! Hope he mends soon, and you can all catch up on missed kip.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Incidentally, if anyone does like particular authors and wants to read books in order, this is a great website:

www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

What a fantastic site! Thanks very much, viva.

Doozergirl wrote: »

Thanks. According to that, I have read his latest if that is still A Week in December, but it was a while back now. It wasn't what I was expecting. I didn't not enjoy it, but nowhere near as much as the others.

That's the one, and OH loathed it, said it was cliched, superficial, irritating, pompous, and contained lots of unnecessary extra superfluous verbiage. I told you he didn't like it (-:

vivatifosi wrote: »

I'd say that the scariest bit is the slow realisation that our criminal justice system isn't very good at finding criminals and finding them guilty. This isn't a dig at barristers, or the judiciary, or police, rather the system as a whole.

Hard to think of ways which are better, though. Torture, for example, can be rather useful. But also has drawbacks.

Eye witnesses are usually thought of as being the best possible evidence, but humans actually make rather bad recorders of fact.

vivatifosi wrote: »

Also how much politics plays a role in things and changes stuff around, not always for the good. The funny bits are mainly anecdotal. There's a fair bit about the difference between clerks and barristers and how barristers get sent to horrible magistrates courts and youth courts in the back and beyond because they are at the bottom of the pile - just out of pupilage and not yet in residency.

Tenancy (-:

And yes, being a third sixth pupil, otherwise known as a squatter, isn't much fun. Pupillage isn't, either.

renegade

vivatifosi wrote: »

It's strange given how prolific he is, but the two books you see taken out all the time, even though they are both pretty old now, are Birdsong and Engelby. The Bond stuff has a different audience. I get the impression that because he doesn't write to series he isn't one of those authors that people want to go through his body of work.

Incidentally, if anyone does like particular authors and wants to read books in order, this is a great website:

https://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk

Thank you for that link, have used it before but forgot where it was ;-))

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

I feel so untalented today, neither a poet nor a purveyor of amusing adverts. We kept DS out of hospital over the weekend but at the cost of him being given steroids - not sure if that was a good thing or not and 3 nights of not much sleep for me listening out for his coughing and wheezing left me falling asleep at my desk today then home to have to drive to next town to pick up DDs from brownies then home to cook dinner so late dinner and knackered.

I'm with you there, I have just spent the last week doing the same with youngest.....and then I got the cold and still feel eugh today and I had the major asthma attack last night, so role reversal a little with youngest having to rush to get my puffers out.