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Did you know it's been used in several books?
>>By Saxon (Tuesday, 7 Oct 2003 15:58)
I rather like Hepburn's: I don't care what's written about me, as long as it isn't true.
>>By Lynn (Tuesday, 7 Oct 2003 16:08)
http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Catch-22+(1970)
It was in the U.S. banned books list for a while or so I've been informed. Backstage.
>>By Saxon (Tuesday, 7 Oct 2003 16:45)
Well done Saxon, you can collect your 20 points when you're ready.
>>By Bethan (Wednesday, 8 Oct 2003 10:10)
Who has already ordered Dark Winter?
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 8 Oct 2003 21:36)
Not me, but it's in my budget and I'll be in line the first day it gets to the bookstore here. :)
>>By Dare (Wednesday, 8 Oct 2003 22:15)
i have just started reading the kremlin device and so far it's pretty much the same as AM standards. bu tgeordie sharp seems a bit cocky sometimes. actions are good but sometimes are unrealistic. Overall its nice to hace a change while waiting for DW.
>>By dxa111 (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 00:11)
Has anyone seen an ARC(Advanced Reader Copies) of AM novels. "Atreia" (his American publisher)is a little on the short side when producing these (as with most of their authors). That being said, does his British publisher print them?
>>By DTO (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 01:37)
What are Advanced Reader Copies?
Hi DTO!
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 08:55)
Advanced Reader Copies? go down as review copies for newspapers and magazines. Same way if you have a new product you give away in hope of favourable media feedback. Worth a stunt-pull maybe. Try your luck. Become a reviewer for a local newspaper.
thanx for the prize points Bethan. Twer a doddle.
see you after Dark Winter. I have a heavy schedule right now.
>>By Saxon (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 09:35)
Thanx Saxon
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 09:53)
euhm Ok, I know I'm quite ignorant in the subject but I didn't know that women could get trained in the SAS.
Read this article in the sun :
www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003462659,,00html
>>By borisette (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 13:38)
I'm not able get that link to work, but commenting on a general basis, I'd say that women still *can't* get trained in the SAS.
As ol' Ken Connor states, there's a difference between serving IN the SAS, and serving WITH the SAS. Units serving WITH the SAS is for instance the signals squadron, 14 int, etc. I believe there are a few women serving in 14 int. There's a book out there called
"One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS", which I believe is about a female operative within 14 int.
Again, this is commenting on a general basis.
>>By ortlieb (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 19:12)
Hey for us girls, has anyone ever mentioned
"Eric Bana" alias NS.
Sighhhhhhh I thought he was sooooooooo......in Black Hawk Down.
No offence Ortlieb, Saxon, Ignaty, AM, and whoever else.
>>By borisette (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 19:30)
friggin A!!!
just flipped the channel over, and noticed i have bbc prime... and they're showing the SAS doc... jungle training episode
>>By trident (Thursday, 9 Oct 2003 21:16)
The link was:
www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003462659,,00.html
(there was a full-stop missing before "html")
xS
>>By shanti941 (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 00:19)
If you insist on glorifying war and its senselessness, then you've obviously never had someone try to blow your brains out with an AK at twenty meters. It'll lock your sphincter up so tight you can't get a toothpick up your ass with a jackhammer. Take a long look at what war and killing is really all about-Read "Johnny Got His Gun" written by Dalton Trumbo. I hope you get the picture. Love and Peace! The Captain
>>By The Captain (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 04:31)
I like the "Love and Peace" part !
>>By Lynn (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 09:31)
Dear Captain, I agree glorifying war and killing is not a good thing.
However glorifying the courage, ingenuity and endurance of the men (and sometimes women) who go to war is a different issue.
Most fiction relies on crime, the killing, robbing and hurting of innocents. Frankly the older I've got the more that makes me squick, I just don't want to read it.
As I'm not a fan of, f'instcance, Enid Blyton :-) and want to read a good thriller every once in a while, I find reading books about specialists in their field, the scrapes they get into and the sheer guts they use to get out of them provides me with a bit of escapism without harming too many people who aren't "in the game" so to speak.
I've looked long and hard at this issue, and them's my principles.
If you don't like 'em much :-) unlike Groucho Marx, I don't happen to have a spare set.
B.t.w. I'll try that experiment if someone will lend me their toothpick...
Peace to you too :-)
Shanti
>>By shanti941 (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 20:08)
Watch out for splinters, shanti. ;)
I agree about the glorifying war thing. I don't see these books as glorifying war. Even the documentary-style TV shows aren't meant to "glorify" war, but inform or educate. If they are also considered "enter- or info-tainment" that's up to the people watching.
Anyway, it's nice to meet you, Captain. Where does the nick come from? Service-related?
>>By Dare (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 20:50)
Welcome, Captain...
It seems to me that Lynn and Shanti have expressed the attitudes of most of us here -- well, except for the part about Shanti volunteering... (Ouch, Shanti! What on earth are you thinking?!?)...
Considering your self-introduction, Captain, I'm curious: may I ask what led you to this board -- what subject were you searching for that you found us?
>>By am-i-binned (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 20:56)
Ooops! TZ cross-posting again. Please include Dare with Lynn and Shanti... fanx!
>>By am-i-binned (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 20:58)
LOL
I make frequent trips to the TZ myself, AIB. Anybody here seen The Usual Suspects? Just watching if for the second time today and it's really good! Love Gabriel Byrne. He can come read my phone book anytime. ;)
But seriously, I love the story-telling. Sick, twisted Arabian Nights story-telling, but it certainly delivers the goods! WOW!
>>By Dare (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 23:16)
Very silly but it brought a smile to my face:
In Dutch version Hubba-Hubba = Hoebba-Hoebba..
I realy wonder sometimes about translators minds.... but they'd
probably say 'look who's talking' :o)
>>By Lynn (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 23:50)
Answers from the Advisor-Sorry if i came on a bit strong, my medication needs adjusting. And if i sounded rude, i apologize. As for the nick, in my youth i had a fling in South America with a Band of Gypsies. (Vicious Pink Lemonade was a home-brewed drink) It's where i learned many things, one of which was pure fear. Shaking, puking, pissing on yourself fear! It is also where i learned about the grace of compassion and what Hemmingwy meant by "A kind heart is the truest wisdom". So that covers that. As for finding this interesting site, i'm not sure? (medication again?) I was looking up an essay on hydrogenation catalysts and somehow found "Flork". I probably misspelled something and there it was. An odd word, it rolls off of the tongue is several amusing ways and as i repeated it in my mind, i chuckled. And anything that makes me chuckle is worth a look! After posting onto the site, i found a lively, intellgent goup of people from all over the world speaking to one another in friendship-a simple but amazing effort! I certainly hope you find it in your hearts to welcome me. I've never used a "chat" site, ever, and am not certain of the protocols. So if you good people would be so kind as to guide me through these first few rough spots, i'd appreciate it. Hic Habitat Felicitous!
>>By The Captain (Friday, 10 Oct 2003 23:52)
HI Captain and welcome, now don't be afraid we won't bite, at least I don't.
Most of us are here 'cause we've read and liked Andy Mcnab's books (don't know if you'e read one of them). You can find info onthe net simply by clicking his name, anyway to make it short he's an ex SAS serg. who got caught during the 1 GW in Iraq and afterwards wrote a book about his experience, called Bravo two Zero, he also wrote Immediate ACtion, now these 2 books are sort of autobiographical, than afterwards he wrote some fictional books and invented a "personage" called Nick Stone (actually based a bit on himself and his experience during the Regiment etc,,)
Some of us on the board are military related and most of us aren't,
I don't like to chat either on boards not knowing who I'm talking too, but I found quite a bit of friends on this board and nothing vulgar gets written so that's fine with me.
I simply likehis books 'cause while your reading them it's like as if the things that are happening are happening to you as if you were there too. Not that I like violence and war, maybe it's a way to escape the daily routine, the stress, anyway thing is I read these books in a couple of days so there must be something,
Hey now you've got me curious, what plant did you cultivate in your tv set...???Hopefully you didn't get that package with tulips too, chuckle chuckle...
>>By borisette (Saturday, 11 Oct 2003 00:36)
I did read Bravo-Two-Zero a year or so ago, but i never ventured past that. I was browsing the sight when i ran accross Mcnab's name and read a few of the comments, I was only voicing an opinion about war, not his writing. As for that wretched Magnavox TV set, it gave me nothing but trouble from the moment my ex-wife bought the damn thing. (I was married at the time). So one day in a fit of creative madness, i gutted it like a fish, put rocks along the bottom for drainage, filled it with Bacto top soil and planted a lemmon tree. It is now about six feet tall and has produced for two years straight. Of course she got custody of the house, the children, and the tree. I'll write you again with some more nonsense about nothing in particular, but i wont use the book forum to do it. bye
>>By The Captain (Saturday, 11 Oct 2003 04:16)
I planted a curly willow once that did beautifully... then we moved 6 months later. I was really tempted to try and transplant it, but didn't want to take the chance it would get hurt. I still miss that tree. *sigh*
>>By Dare (Saturday, 11 Oct 2003 04:20)
Uh-oh! Is this a strange TZ variation on AM's/NS's dreaded tree-hugging? LOL!!!
>>By am-i-binned (Saturday, 11 Oct 2003 04:48)
Well Captain, this time I like all of your post :o)
I don't think we have a captain in F Troop yet, so welcome here..
Do you think we can persuade you to read more of McNab in time?
>>By Lynn (Saturday, 11 Oct 2003 12:49)
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