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I found a book waiting for me on a bench, telling me it was free and to take it.
And inside, it says of this worldwide society that reads books, and then passes them on to others to read... either by giving them to their friends, or by just leaving them on benches, sticking them into bags, etc. :0)
So very very cool. I suggest you go look.
http://bookcrossing.com/
I found a book waiting for me on a bench, telling me it was free and to take it.
And inside, it says of this worldwide society that reads books, and then passes them on to others to read... either by giving them to their friends, or by just leaving them on benches, sticking them into bags, etc. :0)
So very very cool. I suggest you go look.
http://bookcrossing.com/
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I kept thinking about it... I scanned about. On the bus, on the path to my school just glancing at benches... and looking at the shops.
I saw lots in one building... it was the library and I took two out for my History essay.
Nobody in my town would do such a thing
" yas free book... lets pure light oor fags wi it "
" um no gein my book tae some bawface "
etc
I kept thinking about it... I scanned about. On the bus, on the path to my school just glancing at benches... and looking at the shops.
I saw lots in one building... it was the library and I took two out for my History essay.
Nobody in my town would do such a thing
" yas free book... lets pure light oor fags wi it "
" um no gein my book tae some bawface "
etc
The sagacious one wrote:
> Dumb tramps stopped my going to Oxford, lazy cretins.
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Well, it's better than Stryke's excuse...
Anyhoo, on another book related note, I've spent more money on books in the last month than on DVDs. Got mysel' Band O' Brothers, Bravo Two Zero and D-Day. No more Beano annuals for me, oh no!
> Dumb tramps stopped my going to Oxford, lazy cretins.
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Well, it's better than Stryke's excuse...
Anyhoo, on another book related note, I've spent more money on books in the last month than on DVDs. Got mysel' Band O' Brothers, Bravo Two Zero and D-Day. No more Beano annuals for me, oh no!
I bet you're walking around, scanning the ground, park benches and even streetlamps, looking for abandoned books. Something like one of those old bag ladies walking around scouring for empty tin cans and loose change.
I never found any books today
Oh, so that means that the lead actor bloke would have met his long lost father if he had returned the book. Tears in the aisles.
Saw Magnolia the other night, fantastic film.
Saw Magnolia the other night, fantastic film.
Nah, there's no happy ending to this book.
Relatively unknown Austrailian actor discovers book on a bench, seeing that the corners are worn, he decides to track down the previous owner to find out why he mistreated the book.
Along the journey he develops a crack addiction, and his girlfriend forces him to go to work to earn more money to feed their habit. In a bleak twist at the end, instead of comfronting the owner about the tears in the pages, the lead actor sells the book, so he can buy more crack and keep his girlfriend from leaving him.
When he returns, he finds his girlfriend has left him, he realises that he used the book, awashed with guilt he shoots himself.
In the final twist to the story, it's shown that the book actually was given to the lead actor bloke by his inspirational father, but he had amnesia and forgot. Oscars all round.
Relatively unknown Austrailian actor discovers book on a bench, seeing that the corners are worn, he decides to track down the previous owner to find out why he mistreated the book.
Along the journey he develops a crack addiction, and his girlfriend forces him to go to work to earn more money to feed their habit. In a bleak twist at the end, instead of comfronting the owner about the tears in the pages, the lead actor sells the book, so he can buy more crack and keep his girlfriend from leaving him.
When he returns, he finds his girlfriend has left him, he realises that he used the book, awashed with guilt he shoots himself.
In the final twist to the story, it's shown that the book actually was given to the lead actor bloke by his inspirational father, but he had amnesia and forgot. Oscars all round.
Goatboy wrote:
> This sounds like a movie where Haley Joel Osmond leaves a book about
> rainbows in a park and a bitter-yet-nice-really stranger played by
> Robin Williams picks it up and tries to learn the identity of the
> owner.
I used to leave my homework book in the park at night, so the hobbos could do my Arithmetic for me. However their alcohol addled brains used to impede their ability to solve complex algebraic equations and so I only ever got B+ or a B.
Dumb tramps stopped my going to Oxford, lazy cretins.
When I left school I retained the book(s) and took them to the local nick, where a Policeman called Nicholas (no relation) used the DNA derived from the stains on the pages, to unscrupulously implicate the layabouts to every unsolved crime in the past ten years. As Prison was thought to be too good for them, they ended up in a Siberian Uranium mine and labour camp.
Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
> This sounds like a movie where Haley Joel Osmond leaves a book about
> rainbows in a park and a bitter-yet-nice-really stranger played by
> Robin Williams picks it up and tries to learn the identity of the
> owner.
I used to leave my homework book in the park at night, so the hobbos could do my Arithmetic for me. However their alcohol addled brains used to impede their ability to solve complex algebraic equations and so I only ever got B+ or a B.
Dumb tramps stopped my going to Oxford, lazy cretins.
When I left school I retained the book(s) and took them to the local nick, where a Policeman called Nicholas (no relation) used the DNA derived from the stains on the pages, to unscrupulously implicate the layabouts to every unsolved crime in the past ten years. As Prison was thought to be too good for them, they ended up in a Siberian Uranium mine and labour camp.
Needless to say, I had the last laugh.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> In book related news, I read a whole book, cover to cover in one
> night. That means I'm special.
>
> *waits for Spot the Dog/Where's Wally gags*
You read everything written on that Book of Vesta matches?
Did it fire your imagination or shed any light on an engrossing, deeply vexing subject.
(Ahem- what book was that-must be good to read in one)
> In book related news, I read a whole book, cover to cover in one
> night. That means I'm special.
>
> *waits for Spot the Dog/Where's Wally gags*
You read everything written on that Book of Vesta matches?
Did it fire your imagination or shed any light on an engrossing, deeply vexing subject.
(Ahem- what book was that-must be good to read in one)
Mrs. Doubtfire.
This sounds like a movie where Haley Joel Osmond leaves a book about rainbows in a park and a bitter-yet-nice-really stranger played by Robin Williams picks it up and tries to learn the identity of the owner.
He tracks the kid down and discovers that the child is a very quiet loner who lives with his single-mother since the death of her husband.
The mother is at first suspicious of the stranger's motives but gradually warms to him, and the quiet son discovers he's a nice person really.
Williams learns to fall in love and appreciate the nice things in life, hooks up with the mum and she helps him overcome his previously debilitating fear of emotions.
Yup.
He tracks the kid down and discovers that the child is a very quiet loner who lives with his single-mother since the death of her husband.
The mother is at first suspicious of the stranger's motives but gradually warms to him, and the quiet son discovers he's a nice person really.
Williams learns to fall in love and appreciate the nice things in life, hooks up with the mum and she helps him overcome his previously debilitating fear of emotions.
Yup.
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