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delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on November 16, 2007, 12:10:42 am ---I saw Ewan on the Tonight Show...he was saying when he came thru Oklahoma he tried to stay at a Holiday Inn and they wouldn't rent him a room because of how he looked... :laugh: :laugh:
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Yep, he was very gracious about it on TV, even accepting the free hotel stay voucher offered him by the chain in apology. In the book, he was shocked at the prejudice shown someone who walks off the street dressed in bike gear, with a heavy beard and moustache, dirty from the road wanting a room. He accepted the voucher, but obviously doesn't stay at Holiday Inn normally and says he wouldn't now if he had to.
injest:
I am currently reading "The Year of Living Bibilcally" by A J Jacobs...
has anyone else read this? I can't make out if he is mocking it or not...
but it is amusing. The part where he had to shoo a pigeon off a egg and out of the room so he could hold her egg up and say a blessing without letting her see (in case it bothered her) made me laugh out loud!
Longhorn32:
"Anansi Boys" and "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman: Both excellent.
"Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore : Everyone should read this book. Mainly because they would enjoy it.
"Fluke or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings" by Christopher Moore. More literary enjoyment, set amongst whale researchers in Hawaii.
"Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide to Planet Earth" : 1000 travel experiences, with pretty pictures.
"This Book Will Save Your Life" by A.M. Holmes: Well, it was good. Not great. After reading I was just left wondering, "from what exactly?"
And of course...."Quantum Mechanics" and "An Informal Introduction to Turbulence". Stimulating, to say the least.
:)
Lumière:
About to begin another novel by brilliant writer: Sarah Waters called Affinity. Got it in the mail today!
oilgun:
Lesbian writer Jane Rule died on November 27 of complications from cancer at age 76. Her book Desert of the Heart was the basis for the classic (and wonderfully sexy) lesbian film Desert Hearts. My favourite book of hers was Contract with the World.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rule
Bibliography
Desert of the Heart (1964)
This Is Not For You (1970)
Against the Season (1971)
Lesbian Images (1975)
Theme for Diverse Instruments (1975)
The Young in One Another's Arms (1977)
Contract With the World (1980)
Outlander (1981)
Inland Passage and Other Stories (1982)
A Hot-Eyed Moderate (1985)
Memory Board (1987)
After the Fire (1989)
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