Brokeback Mountain

No I haven't, I'll look out for him, cheers, Euro. Mind you, I'll look out for him when I've gotten through my ever increasing pile of unread books....:lol:
 
I thought the film was terrific, so if the books are even better, he would definitely be worth anyone's time (so long as they like crime novels).
 
How on earth would I have explained homosexuality to a six year old?
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Easy - just tell them that in the same way as men and women fall in love, sometimes men fall in love with men and women with women. Where's the problem?
 
I was around four when I asked where I came from, and how. My Mother fielded the question (my Father just went boggle-eyed and off to make a cuppa, I think!) then, as she fielded them later, with enough information for my age. She told me that I came from 'here', pointing to her tummy, and that I grew there because Mumma and Dadda loved each other very much, and made me. I was perfectly satisfied with this, and didn't ask about the mechanics until much later on!

A few days later, she and I were walking home together, when a rather prissy woman neighbour stopped and exclaimed, "My, my! Hasn't little Jonny grown!" Quick as a flash, I put her right: "I didn't grow! My Mumma and Dadda made me!" I said proudly. The woman looked horrified, and said to my Mother, "Oh, my goodness - the things they say nowadays!" (She had a grown son, gawd bless 'im.) "Oh, no, not at all," said Mama. "We told her that we loved each other, and that we made her. We believe in telling children the truth." The woman's jaw just about hit the pavement, she stomped off, and never spoke to us again.

I hope that attitudes to homosexuality will change in the way that my Mother never told me that 'it' was 'dirty', in the way that so many of my peers were informed by their uptight parents. I remember one girl friend was not allowed to see her Mother dressing or undressing, because it was 'dirty'. This at a tiny, tender age. "Why," laughed my own Mother, amazed at such an attitude, "do her clothes need a wash?"
 
I thought the book of LA Confidential was terrible! I was really disappointed. To turn that into such a great film was a massive achievement.
 
American Psycho is one of the worst books I have ever read.

Apart from that, I find American authors over the past hundred years to be well up to scratch. From F. Scott Fitzgerald through Kerouac and Heller all the way up to DBC Pierre.

I feel that SL is generalising a tad too much in roughing off the whole literary output of the US.
 
Originally posted by Hunneyb@Jan 24 2006, 11:36 AM
I thought the book of LA Confidential was terrible! I was really disappointed. To turn that into such a great film was a massive achievement.
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Did you read The Big Nowhere before taking on LA Confidential?
It sort of followed on from it. Also, Ellroy is an acquired taste - his stuccato style is pretty unique.
 
Maybe it came across wrongly then Bar - I'm not "roughing off the whole literary output of the US". I'm making the obervation that I find that out of the books I read, it tends to be the US authors who resort more to the same phrases, or worn clichés, rather than the British ones.
 
Someone whose judgment I trust in these matters told me to avoid Brokeback Mountain. In their words: It is the biggest load of sh*te I've seen in years.

I wouldn't dream of spending £20 going to the cinema to see if they're wrong.
 
Originally posted by Desert Orchid@Jan 24 2006, 12:19 PM
I wouldn't dream of spending £20 going to the cinema to see if they're wrong.
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I wouldn't dream of spending £20 going to the cinema!

Is that how much it costs these days? I'm sure it was only a fiver or something just a couple of years ago?????
 
About a fiver a skull to get in, not far off that in petrol to get there plus sweets, hot dogs, popcorn, drinks, etc.

At least £20 for two people.
 
Kerouac, Bar? I hated On The Road - the only thing by him I have read. Heller? Catch 22 is the only book I have ever quit without finishing. I agree about American Psycho though.
 
Now I know the Scots are reluctant to part with their cash ;), but forking out £1500+ for a plasma widescreen to save paying £20 for the cinema is going a little far, isn't it?! :lol:
 
Saving £20 per week, around 50 weeks per year for 10 years = £10,000 saved.
Expenditure £1500 (but I'll haggle the b@stards down to about £350).
Jar of 5 giant hot dog sausages from Lidl = about 89p
12 hot dog rolls from Lidl = about 39p
2ltr bottle of Coke from any major supermarket at the right time = about 50p

F*ckin' canny or what!!! :lol:
 
I would if it saved me shelling out £1500 for a plasma screen :lol:

Seriously, I would go if I thought it was reasonable value for money. It's not. It's a total ripoff so I refuse to go. I let Mrs O and Little Miss O go on their own once a year if they behave themselves.
 
The walk does them good and if they stumble across any loose change on the way they can really treat themselves.
 
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