It's 1984...

Collateral damage that happened in WW2 had very little to do with
actually winning the war..

I refer of course to war crimes like Dresden.

Phil

 

Which is a good point to recommend

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Extremely-Loud-Incredibly-Close-Novel/dp/024114213X

Stunning novel, so good I just wanted to sit and read it rather than
look round Rome.

 

"Everything is Illuminated" is better.

 

Well, I knew you were a bit wierd, but this positively confirms it

Paul.

 

and obviously if Dresden and Hiroshima had been crimes there would have
been trials.

 

This 'un must be truly dreadful, then, since I found "Illuminated" to be
pretentious and unreadable bollocks.

 

well, it's pretentious for sure, but I found it totally compelling to
read and hilariously funny/desperately sad at the same time.

see my advise to Zymurgy:"try some Dan Brown"[1]

[1] I might add this to my list of insult-macros

 

It's worthy.

 

I'd never heard of him until I picked this one up, I've now put the
above on the list.

 

It also recommends 'If nobody speaks of remarkable things' which I
raved about a while back.

I found it started really well then tailed off, to the extent it is on
the pile of half read books that I'll finish at some point.

 

<points>

See, see

There is that.

 

In fairness, if you insist on being brought on holidays and pushed
around Rome for food and culture, you can see my point.

 

"Rules are made by the winners"

Phil

 

Some years my ideal holiday has been hiring a cottage in the middle of
no-where (preferrably without a mobile signal) and taking a crate of
wine and a crate of books.

TV coverage is also optional.

Fortunately C has the same mindset (although in her case it's
tapestry/books).

Phil

 

You wouldn't have taken the old crip there in the first place.

 

She did suggest a push down the steps as an *hommage* to Battleship
Potemkin.