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BohsPartisan
19/07/2007, 11:53 PM
Not got a clue of that one but...

"***** gets me a job as a waiter, after that *****'s pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die"
superbohs
20/07/2007, 12:00 AM
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"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."


The Outsider
Albert Camus
Bluebeard
20/07/2007, 9:43 AM
"Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."
Presumably that Philip Pullman book I have no intention of reading - Northern Lights?

Here are two Irish written ones - the first a cerified classic, the second a little more obscure by a big literary name:

:ball:******** ******'s Journal
3 May. Bistritz. __Left Munich at 8:35 P. M, on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.

:ball:The sun, having no alternative, shone on the nothing new
LeixlipRed
20/07/2007, 12:23 PM
Correct Bluebeard. You should read the books. Kick's any of that Harry Potty stuff to touch. Best kids stroke fantasy series I've ever read
Sheridan
20/07/2007, 12:30 PM
Best kids stroke fantasy series I've ever read
I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.

How about this, the opening lines of the best short story ever written (with the possible exception of The Dead.)

I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I think there is something wrong with my liver.
TonyD
20/07/2007, 12:56 PM
I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.

I'm glad no-one was in the office with me when I read that - I literally laughed out loud. :D:D
Wolfie
20/07/2007, 1:00 PM
"The shrill tones of the phone broke the deadly silence. A profound, edgy silence that you'd get from a room full of people where Michael Jackson has just offered to babysit".

"It was Delaney. It was true. I was the Gaffer".

Anyone?
LeixlipRed
20/07/2007, 1:54 PM
I'd keep your kid stroking fantasies to yourself if you want to remain a free man.



While I was the butt (snigger) of the joke, I still laughed out loud :D
osarusan
20/07/2007, 1:57 PM
"The shrill tones of the phone broke the deadly silence. A profound, edgy silence that you'd get from a room full of people where Michael Jackson has just offered to babysit".

"It was Delaney. It was true. I was the Gaffer".

Anyone?

The World According to Stan.
jebus
20/07/2007, 2:00 PM
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness anyone?

And BohsPartisan's is Fight Club I believe, people might have been thrown by the **** in place of the name Tyler, probably thought it was a curse word
Wolfie
20/07/2007, 2:29 PM
The World According to Stan.

Close - it was, of course, "The Gaffer".
sonofstan
21/07/2007, 10:11 AM
:ball:The sun, having no alternative, shone on the nothing new

Murphy - Beckett
BohsPartisan
22/07/2007, 10:37 AM
I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I think there is something wrong with my liver.

Dostoyevsky? Notes from the Underground?

Oh and Jebus is correct. I *ed out the word Tyler because that would have given it away.


Oh and try this short but sweet opener
A squat grey building of only thirty-four storeys.
Bluebeard
23/07/2007, 11:04 AM
Murphy - Beckett

Well played that man!