Christian Rutherford

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Mini Cab' (2010) by Stefan Bleekrode
https://t.co/89zYJinaro

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@BillTheKid1603 The British Isles is an entirely neutral geographical designation; it’s not called the UK Isles.

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@DanRossGoodman That’s not quite the point. It’s characterised negatively here as a “high school book” because it’s a set text that is liable to put readers off it as a result. This unfortunately happens often, and it can be a genuine pleasure to rediscover works that carried that stigma.

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@hellothisisivan I'm afraid Su and Rustie are exempt for the time being.

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@archpng What is the point of this scroll?

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@hellothisisivan You'd have to be mad to wear a tie pin with a waistcoat.

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@jaglancy You want the Frenchman Brunel on your billets? Chapeau ! 🎩🇫🇷

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The Rabbit Tetralogy (this counts as one in the Updike-endorsed Everyman's edition)
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Toole
Creation - Gore Vidal
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

A bit of a sausage-fest, I realise.

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

I'm seeing a lot of people sharing 5 American authors they admire. What about 5 American novels?

My choices would perhaps be:

- Moby-Dick (Melville)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
- The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)

Yes, I can count, but I couldn't leave Faulkner out of the list.

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@No5mallf3at If you read Russian, German and French, why would you not read those authors in their original languages?

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@aDissentient "Wotcha, cock" has certainly become rarer.

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@andrewpconnell Sounds like a faux-pas to me.

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@davidbessis What literary logic do you need other than if they're worth reading at all, they're worth reading in their original languages?

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@BikuWandering The odd thing about this routine is that could very easily have been delivered by Ronnie Barker.

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@lazylucyowo @ceilt_og The result of which will be what I already know: a mix.
To reduce yourself to a single tribal category is absurd; to decide for others is presumptuous and insulting.

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@susiesymes1 @AnneOatley I wasn't claiming they were the only ones.

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@FiachOighir At least they were on the right side.

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@Zedait Also, the Executor looks much too small in relation to the Death Star in that shot. It’s always bothered me.

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@jtimsuggs The opening crawls are writing assignments by youngling trainees and not to be taken literally.