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Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - Seafront Plodder - 01-05-2008
Just got hold of a copy, been recommended to me.
Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - El Gordo - 01-05-2008
Depends whether you're referring to Paulo Coelho's fable, or Ben Jonson's Elizabethan tragedye.
I've read neither but I have seen the RSC perform the latter in my distant youth.
I suspect you mean the first. Sorry, no.
Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - Seafront Plodder - 01-05-2008
Yes I mean the formerye
Thanks for the help t'other day when I bothered you BTW. All sorted now.
Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - El Gordo - 01-05-2008
Seafront Plodder Wrote:Thanks for the help t'other day when I bothered you BTW. All sorted now.
No worries, bro. I'm only sorry that you found me at such a bad moment: an hour to kick-off, 20 miles from home... stuck in a traffic jam that literally hadn't moved one inch for 10 minutes... the rain so torrential that I could barely see through the windscreen... I was in semi-panic mode, which wasn't helped by deciding to do a U-turn across a sloping paved bit between the carriageways of the A4, and hearing (and feeling) a ghastly throbbing grating sound from underneath my (to me) gorgeous new car... it was all going wrong. And then, as M gave me an earful to make me feel better, the phone rang and it was SP, asking me about anti-virus software.
I can chuckle about it now (especially as I got home having missed only the first minute of the game), but let's just say you caught me at a difficult emotional point in my life.
No doubt we'll laugh about it over a pint someday.
Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - Sweder - 02-05-2008
El Gordo Wrote:No doubt we'll laugh about it over a pint someday.What a superb notion
I read The Algebraist by Iain M Banks back in 2006 - does that count?
Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - Seafront Plodder - 02-05-2008
Sweder Wrote:What a superb notion
I read The Algebraist by Iain M Banks back in 2006 - does that count?
zzz...second only in the boredom stakes to Umberto Eco. IMO of course.
Anyone read 'The Alchemist'? - Sweder - 03-05-2008
I'm amazed you even tried to read it let alone finish the thing.
It's a darned long book with quite small typeface and very few pictures :p
I had to get someone to read it to me . . .