Posts by Cecelia
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I was just reading about Australia's Byron Bay as a holiday destination. Lush rainforest to the door etc
Would Australia mine in places like that? Nooooooooooo....
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10634013
Robyn Malcolm. What she says
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I'm glad you posted on this Keith because I am so disturbed by it that I want to do something irrational like move to Australia. How can it be that a person like Gerry Brownlee can have any sort of control over what makes NZ precious to so many of us.
The early settlers did enough damage but in probable ignorance of the future impact of their devastation of the magnificent forests that once covered this land. We should not be so ignorant now and trying to be like Australia is like me trying to be like Megan Fox. We're no Australia and our future has to lie somewhere else rather than drilling into high grade conservation land for God's sake.
I'm going to read all the links y'all have suggested to try to calm down and not explode into a million tiny little pieces.
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I have just watched Media 7 and enjoyed it very much. Great people on the panel.
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I heard Kim Hill interview Margot Lanagan on Saturday and yes, she sounded interesting. Kim Hill raved about her book and I've heard Kate de Goldi rave too. It's funny; I love de Goldi's writing but I often fail to enjoy the books she recommends.
I must listen to Q and A on TVonDemand. And Bookiemonster, I'm reading The Graveyard Book and enjoying it. It's quite delightful and I could recommend it to a young'un whereas Tender Morsels ... hmmm.
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No Fretful Sleepers does look good.
However, Bookiemonster, was it you who read Tender Morsels? I have just finished it and I didn't really like it. I must lack a fantasy gene or summat. I should have reacquainted myself with the fairy tale it was based on?
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I just have to say one more thing about The Wire (I am reading books too - honestly). Remember the HoS last weekend with its expose of Michael Laws' own domestic dysfunction. It might have been mean but it was deliciously ironic given his own attacks on 'the underclass'. There's an ep in The Wire where informant Bubbles sees Detective McNulty's screwed up middle class life. When he's dropped back home in the projects he says, "There's a thin line isn't there between heaven and this ..." I actually considered that line a tad didactic and obvious - but it was nice and it's what Laws doesn't understand.
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I hate crime series too but The Wire is about so much more and is Shakespearian, Dickensian in its language and characters. It's brilliantly produced with its opening montages and jazz songs. It really does explore why we do the things we do and why we tend to get browbeaten by the 'game' we have to play in any institution we happen to live or work in.
It takes 3 eps to get into it and subtitles help for a while to learn the dialect.
I read that the creator of the series said "Fuck the average viewer!"
How refreshing is that?
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<quote>We really need t-shirts or something to promote this show properly. I'm considering buying series 1 for my Dad.<quote>
My husband is 72 and he is really enjoying it. Perhaps not as much as me but it's one of the rare things we can watch together. The secret for older folk is the SUBTITLE function. Once we cottoned onto that, we were away.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a novel I'd recommend to anyone.
A lovely novel. I read it some time ago and often think of it. I don't want to reignite the SciFi thing either but I read a JG Ballard and didn't like it. Too paranoid. Too OTT. Maybe it's because I'm a girl.
OTOH, we have just discovered The Wire and we're onto Season 2 and the script is so incredibly delicious that I want to eat it up.