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10:21 pm
November 18, 2010
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Bella44 said
^If I wanted to read bad Twilight fanfic then I’d just go on fanfiction.net!!!!!
That’s how ‘Fifty Shades’ started out and apparently the writing is still at the usual fanfic level. On the other hand, I am slightly curious as to why it’s so popular but I’m guessing it’s just because of all the sex? Surely there’s better written erotica around????
I prefer Archieve of our own (AO3) simple because there’s very little bad fan fic on it. Even the slash is generally above standard.
It's always bunnies.
12:02 am
October 28, 2011
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LOL Neil. I love it.
Bella, you are first 
I’m just teasing.
Is there any reason why she keeps calling Will Somers Master Sexton though? Did I miss something? I didn’t think he actually got banished for calling Anne a bawd either. I could be wrong of course.
10:00 pm
January 3, 2012
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Olga, had to laugh today, You mention 50 shades of Grey. In the paper today it appears a man has been charged with assault on his wife, for squirting her with brown sauce, because she wouldn’t put the book down to make him a cup of tea.. LOL
Seriously it’s true, there are some really weird Pommie’s in England.
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
10:03 pm
January 3, 2012
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Neil Kemp said
What if PG or Warnicke followed up on this theme? We could end up with books like:
Henry – Fifty Shades Of Slay.
Henry (part 2) – Fifty Shades Of Weigh.
Anne – Fifty Shades Of May.
Anne Of Cleves – Fifty Shades Of Hay.
Cranmer – Fifty Shades Of Pray.
Cromwell – Fifty Shades Of Pay.
George – Fifty Shades Of Gay.
Catherine Howard – Fifty Shades Of Play.
Lady Jane – Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Better not give them ideas, it could happen!
Neil… Henry part 3 Fifty Shades of Decay…
Semper Fidelis, quod sum quod
11:50 pm
April 11, 2011
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Nice one.
5:09 am
January 9, 2010
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Good one Boleyn! Though it does conjure up some iffy mental pictures, LOL
I’ve chucked ‘Claude & Camille’ and have started on ‘The Hobbit’ instead. Life’s too short to keep going with bad books
7:12 am
October 28, 2011
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I finished Bring up The Bodies, what a stinker. Remind me to stick to PG if I want to read trash, at least it’s not disguised as literature. But next, I think I might read a fantasy book or two. I’ve got some interesting arcs to read, one’s a reworking of the Pilgrim’s Progress.
Boleyn that is hysterical. Although if squirting sauce in considered assault I might be in trouble Is brown sauce Worcestershire or HP, by the way? Did I spell that right?
9:52 am
December 5, 2009
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Worcestershire sauce is spicy and liquidy and is lovely with cheese on toast and in stews. It costs about £1.20p a bottle.
HP sause is brown sauce and costs 5p a month for six years.
12:25 pm
October 28, 2011
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Cheese on toast? I must try that. I usually just pop it in my stews. Now HP sauce, we used to use it in Beef and Guinness pie in one kitchen I worked in. Nasty sticky stuff, it did put a nice flavour in the pie though.
Oh Bella I love reading The Hobbit. I read Hobbit and LOTR at Christmas time when I can. I am dying for the Hobbit movie.
11:28 pm
April 9, 2011
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I absoultely adored The Hobbit. My parents gave it to me when I was 10 and I read in it 3 days during the Christmas school holidays. Totally got abosrbed and lost in it. Naturally I asked my parents for the ‘sequel’ the next Christmas. They kindly obliged. I startd reading it but for me it was more difficult to read and get my head around. I tried numerous times to read, but it wasn’t until after all the movies came out that I managed to finish reading The Lord Of The Rings some nearly 15 years later LOL. I think having the movie’s imagery in my head heped me read through the dense passages of description. I still enjoyed the book, dont get me wrong but perhaps trying to read it at 11 was a mistake. I tried about 4 times to read it over a period of 15 years I would get to the same point – the appareance of Gandalf the White, put the book down and not return to it. I think part of the problem is that The Two Towers leans heavily to non-hobbit action so I wasn’t interested. In fact, to this day The Two Towers The Movie does nothing for me as there is not enough Hobbit action.
And also to this day, I really don’t see how they will make a simple sotry like The Hobbit into two movies (and yes I know its all about the money). My belief is that in appendix stuff was deemed ‘unworthy’ of the main story by Tolkein then surely its not that necessary to depict it in the movie.
PS What is HP sauce?
3:48 am
October 28, 2011
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I couldn’t read the LOTR until I was about 21, I tried when I was sixteen. I got my best friend an Alan Lee centenary edition for her 16th birthday too but we didn’t manage it for a few years. Now I try to read it every year, it is probably my actual favourite book ever.
Bill, HP sauce http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce I’m not a big fan of it myself
4:22 am
January 9, 2010
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I love LOTR. My brother kept saying I should read it when I was in my teens but it wasn’t until just before the movies came out that I actually did. I’ve read it a couple of times since then. Actually The Two Towers is probably my favourite (it’s a close call with The Fellowship of the Ring) – Merry & Pippin and Treebeard & the Ents is my absolute favourite section! But for some reason I’ve never read ‘The Hobbit’. Maybe because it’s more of a children’s story? I don’t know, but with the movie coming out i’ts high time I did.
Are they really going to make two movies out of it? It’s not that big a book; I’ve nearly finished it!!
9:23 am
October 28, 2011
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I thought the same about the Narnia movies, but as both Narnia and the Hobbit were aimed at children they used less “visual” material in the books when it came to actual battles. No ten year old wants to read three chapters on a battle. I suspect the last movie will be centred around Bard the Bowman and the Battle of the Five Armies so I think it could be done. Considering the huge amount that was left out of the LOTR movies I daresay we’re going to get the full story and more, which is excellent.
Bella I can never pick a favourite. But I love the march of the Ents, Rohan comes to Pelennor field, and the Eagles come to Mount Doom. I cried at all of those parts in the movies, I am a great big sook. Craig and I watch the movies every year now too. Yes, I am an insufferable nerd, it’s appalling
Oh this year they’re releasing a proper facsimile of the first edition text of the Hobbit. Of course I have a whole bookcase of Tolkien but I am dying to see this one. Tolkien had to revise the first edition after he started writing LOTR because Gollum’s character changed. In the original Hobbit he happily handed the ring to Bilbo after they played the game. The first editions are worth ten thousand plus so I’m glad i’ll finally get to read the original text as I’ll never be able to afford a first edition.
1:28 pm
April 9, 2011
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Are they really going to make two movies out of it? It’s not that big a book; I’ve nearly finished it!!
There sure are. They are apparently expanding the book by shoving in the appendix from LOTR so they can get the main cast back for bits and pieces to obviously help in marketing cause it’s clear the movie couldn’t sell itself without the names Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom or Elijah Wood. All I know is that apparently it startes with Bilbo telling the story to Frodo. I was excited for the movie until I read it was being split into two. My thinking is, if they could make ONE movie for each section of The Lord Of The Rings, surely they could make ONE 3 hour movie out of The Hobbit.
1:41 pm
June 7, 2010
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I recently read Leonie Frieda’s biography on Catherine de Medici. I knew very little about Catherine, but she was a formidable woman, and more than the myths surrounding her life. I also finished Nancy Goldstone’s “Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters who Ruled Europe.” I am now reading Sarah Bradford’s “Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy.” It’s very good so far. Lucrezia was a very interesting woman.
"By daily proof you shall find me to be to you both loving and kind" Anne Boleyn
3:19 pm
October 28, 2011
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Bill1978 said
My thinking is, if they could make ONE movie for each section of The Lord Of The Rings, surely they could make ONE 3 hour movie out of The Hobbit.
Bill they only made one movie of each book because of the studio. They left a massive amount out of the movies, I am quite sure the studio was happy for two films this time because it’s guaranteed they will make money. The first trilogy was a gamble, it was a decade of filming and production along with a huge budget. If they make one three hour movie out of the Hobbit that means they’ll probably drop other things in favour of extending the main battle for the screen. No thank you. I would have been happy with six LOTR movies, I will never forgive them for leaving Tom Bombadil out.
Duchess I really want to read more about Lucrezia, please let me know how the book is. I could use some recommendations, I did buy a book on the Brogias but it was way too light, and I’m fascinated by Lucrezia.
7:40 pm
December 5, 2009
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I’m part way through ‘The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest’. The problem is that I read the first two books in the series, and then this, back to back. It was a mistake because each book covers some of the ground of the previous book. I should have had a break because I’m finding it a bit repetative. Anyway, I’m pugging on and then back to something non-fiction. I’m looking to read Warnicke’s latest book which is supposed to give definitive evidence that Anne was born in 1507. We’ll see!! Has anyone read it?’
10:50 pm
October 28, 2011
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Which book Louise? I’ve only seen her one on AOC other than the first Anne Boleyn book
7:35 am
December 5, 2009
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It’s called, ‘Wicked Women of Tudor History’ and was published this year. I can’t find it in any bookshop so I think I’ll have to get it from Amazon.
9:06 am
April 11, 2011
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Wicked Women of Tudor England by Warnicke only seems to be on general sale in the US at present (Barnes and Noble), but will doubtless be in the shops soon enough over here. The prices stated (even for the paperback version) seem a bit high, so, given my feelings about Warnicke’s work, I think I’ll wait for some reviews before taking the plunge.
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