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There are quite a few crazy cat couples out there. They often come into the vet clinic in a panic with a concern such as "Tiger was napping on the couch today instead of the chair where she ALWAYS sleeps! What's wrong with her????"
I've always resisted to urge to tell them they need to take Tiger for a full C/T scan RIGHT AWAY, but it's always tempting.
I should add that I really do love people like that, and will take them any day over the 'he hasn't eaten for a week and has been vomiting blood. Do you have a pill I can give him?" crowd.
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Yes- this has been an ongoing problem, and not just for us, over the last 2 months (discussed earlier in the thread - FYI).
I've reported the problem (you have no idea how much I've reported the problem) and do occasionally hear back from someone in tech support. They say they are still working on the problem.
I have found that every now and again, the point it takes me to when I click is a bit closer to where it should be, though still not right. We could always start a new thread, although I've been loathe to cut short all the various conversations taking place.
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Yes. It's apparently (according to GR staff) related to having a l..."
Don't get me started! That's what they kept dismissing the problem as, but I was able to eventually find someone in tech support who could see that it wasn't just that. We always have deleted posts, as well as deleted user accounts. That's always going to happen in a big group. We don't usually get threads going haywire, and staying haywire though..
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I can send you my recipe for creating one if you like..
Karen wrote: "Tracy wrote: "saw the movie of Jesus' Son.." I saw this too. Billy Crudup, Denis Leary and Holly Hunter in the same movie."It was pretty good...different. I didn't read the book so I cannot compare.
Ruby wrote: "Riona wrote: "One day I will find a crazy cat man and we will be very, very happy together. ..."I can send you my recipe for creating one if you like.."
A recipe? This I gotta hear.
Ruby wrote: "We could always start a new thread, although I've been loathe to cut short all the various conversations taking place."That, unfortunately, is GR's only solution.
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That, unfortunately, is GR's only solution."
I'd be okay with that. New people rarely read more than a couple old pages of posts anyway, it seems. And the problem is especially annoying when I access the site from the half-assed GR app.
Well I just finished Dan Browns recent book Inferno which inspired me to dig through some of the things he refers to the most. Like DANTE. So a few days ago I bought Dante's Inferno. I just kind of peeked into it a few minutes ago and I found myself reading it aloud like a psychopath trying to sound like a mid-evil Dante. Duh. Here I come rings of hell -_-
Sjúz wrote: "Well I just finished Dan Browns recent book Inferno which inspired me to dig through some of the things he refers to the most. Like DANTE. So a few days ago I bought Dante's Inferno. I just kind of..."Great! Inferno is awesome :-) In case you're interested there's a series of lectures that discuss Inferno starting here.
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Review here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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I'm struggling to get enthused about that one. I think it's purely because I'm a bit sick of hearing about/from Neil Gaiman lately, though.
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Re: GR not linking to most current post
GR seems to function slightly differently depending on how I access it (iPad app vs. Firefox vs. Safari) and I have trouble remembering which functions go with which access method. I was going to say it feels like a new adventure each time, but what it really feels like is a deterrent to me actually making comments (which might not be such a bad thing since I seem incapable of brevity).
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Me too. I saw it for the first time in a shop today, and it was pretty thin.
Marc wrote: "GR seems to function slightly differently depending on how I access it.."
Yeah - I wouldn't recommend trying to access the group features via the iPhone app. It has a ways to go before it is useful for anything other than reading the odd discussion post update.
Marc wrote: "I, too, am interested in Ruby's recipe--..."
Well, the ingredients include: one tiny townhouse, a boy, and a cat who has no respect for the boy's fear of cats. Prepare the boy... by letting the cat play a game of "near and far" on his chest as he drowses..
Half way through Under Milk Wood - for the first time I'm reading it as well as listening to Richard Burton and am realising how much I've missed on previous occasions when I've just floated away on Mr Burtons lovely voice.
I'm also reading Among Others which is a strange mixure of a book - it's partly about the pleasures of reading but it's also a very matter of fact story about fairies and witches narrated by a 15 year from a very dysfunctional family who has been sent off to a sports mad boarding school - I'm really enjoying it and have just been bowled over by an unexpected twist.
I'm also reading Among Others which is a strange mixure of a book - it's partly about the pleasures of reading but it's also a very matter of fact story about fairies and witches narrated by a 15 year from a very dysfunctional family who has been sent off to a sports mad boarding school - I'm really enjoying it and have just been bowled over by an unexpected twist.
Maria wrote: "Well I just finished Dan Browns recent book Inferno which inspired me to dig through some of the things he refers to the most. Like DANTE. So a few days ago I bought Dante's Inferno. I just kind of..."Thanx So so much! Sometimes it's hard to decipher Dante's intentionally confusing language and the meaning of some of his symbolisms :)
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This book sounds amazing. Must read.
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Yes. You MUST. I had heard it was good, but the first few chapters were just total surprises.
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Lee wrote: "Half way through Under Milk Wood - for the first time I'm reading it as well as listening to Richard Burton and am realising how much I've missed on previous occasions when I've just floated away o..."I confess, I've never read it, and I too have floated away on Burton's voice. I guess I should try reading it for myself.
Derek wrote: "Lee wrote: "Half way through Under Milk Wood - for the first time I'm reading it as well as listening to Richard Burton and am realising how much I've missed on previous occasions when I've just fl..."
I think R Burton could make anything sound calming and dreamy - even the Lord of the Flies !
Three quarters of the way through Cat's Cradle which was hard going at first but v enjoyable now and halfway through We where the world has been taken over by the One State which has rescued mankind from "the savage state of freedom".
I think R Burton could make anything sound calming and dreamy - even the Lord of the Flies !
Three quarters of the way through Cat's Cradle which was hard going at first but v enjoyable now and halfway through We where the world has been taken over by the One State which has rescued mankind from "the savage state of freedom".
I could definitely go for Burton reading Cat's Cradle (I know: that's not what you said :-) )My wife rescued me from "the savage state of freedom"….
Ruby, Ack-Ack Macaque sounds remarkable - it's an entirely different genre, but have you ever come across Killer in Drag by Edward D Wood Jr ( the worlds worst director) It's the pulpest of pulp fiction - here is an excerpt from near the beginning - Glen " picked up the gun affectionately and slipped it smoothly into the pocket of the garment he was wearing. That garment was a fluffy, floor length, pink marabou negligee. Calmly, then, he made his way to the bedroom. Mona, beautiful blonde Mona sat on the edge of a rumpled king sized bed waiting for him". There is a sequel in which Glen has been captured and is now on death row - it is marvellously entitled Let me Die in Drag.
Derek wrote: "I could definitely go for Burton reading Cat's Cradle (I know: that's not what you said :-) )
My wife rescued me from "the savage state of freedom"…."
Thats what wives are for :o)
My wife rescued me from "the savage state of freedom"…."
Thats what wives are for :o)
started reading American Gods my third one of his. Really like Gaiman and discovered him thanks to this group. :)
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No, but it sounds like the novelisation of Glenn or Glenda (the film), which I do have a copy of. Is it worth a read?
I don't normally read much pulp fiction at all, but Ack-Ack really goes a bit further than that - into alternative history, steampunk, cyberpunk.... but at the same time it does read quickly, like an action/adventure/noir. It's hard to explain, and I'm totally out of my element in trying to describe it! I've just finished the book, so I'm going to need some time to think before I post the review!
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Ruby wrote: "Lee wrote: "Ruby, Ack-Ack Macaque sounds remarkable - it's an entirely different genre, but have you ever come across Killer in Drag by Edward D Wood Jr ( the worlds worst director) It's the pulp..."
It's definitely worth a read in a - cannot believe anyone wrote this, it's so very bad it's good - way. It doesn't really share any plot with Glen or Glenda - this Glen is a contract killer who carries out all his hits as Glenda - not so much for reasons of disguise but because he prefers to kill in drag. Basically its just outstandingly awful and ridiculous - but in a good way.
Just added Ack Ack Macaque to my to read list
It's definitely worth a read in a - cannot believe anyone wrote this, it's so very bad it's good - way. It doesn't really share any plot with Glen or Glenda - this Glen is a contract killer who carries out all his hits as Glenda - not so much for reasons of disguise but because he prefers to kill in drag. Basically its just outstandingly awful and ridiculous - but in a good way.
Just added Ack Ack Macaque to my to read list
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Huh. I never knew Ed Wood wrote novels. It's been ages since I even watched any of his films. Thanks for that.
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Now I'm onto Taipei. It's an interesting style of writing, (sort of like the internal monologue of someone with Aspergers) which could go either way for me I think.
Ruby wrote: "Lee wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Lee wrote: "Ruby, Ack-Ack Macaque sounds remarkable - it's an entirely different genre, but have you ever come across Killer in Drag by Edward D Wood Jr ( the worlds wors..."_if_ it was ever a movie or script, or even just a "treatment", it's not uncommon for producers to get their names on the novelization ahead of, or even instead of, the person who really did the work. I just came across some by Howard Weinstein that I'm sure were really written by someone else.
otoh, GR's profile suggests he's the real writer: "Wood would often recycle plots of his films for novels, write novelizations of his own screenplays, or reuse elements from his novels in scripts. His first novel, Black Lace Drag was published in 1963 and reissued in 1965 as Killer in Drag." — which would explain both why it does, and does not, sound like "Glen or Glenda".
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Thanks for that. I'm assuming the quality of writing is on par with the quality of film-making. This is a problem for me. I love a terrible movie. Terrible books on the other hand.... not so much.
Well, after Bela Lugosi died, he didn't have much of a career left as a film-maker. He lived off his writing, so maybe he's actually a better writer. I'm not sure I want to find out!
Finished Don Quixote (don'teven) now reading The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño although it's super important to me that strangers know that I'm reading it in Spanish and not English, okay? Haha!Anywaz I do love Bolaño's writing. That I've encountered, only he and Murakami write in a way that instantly tells you "Slow down, okay? I'm telling you a story and I'm good at it. Enjoy."
Excuse the length, but I want to ensure I'm going about this right. I just joined GR yesterday and this was the first group I've stumbled upon that I thought I may enjoy. My problem is A. I'm a little shy and B. I don't know if I fall into place.So here's what I've been reading: Damned It was alright, but I'd prefer Invisible Monsters if I was given the choice.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children I really enjoyed it. I had no idea what it was when I picked it up, but it was an easy read.
Animal Farm & 1984 I reread these because they're my favorite. Anything involving a dystopia has my undivided attention.
So...is this the group I belong in or should I continue my hunt? I'm really just looking for a place to socialize, find new reads and feel challenged (in a good way, of course).
Mark wrote: "Picked up Roadside Picnic from the library - very much liking this. N..."I've had it listed as "Currently reading" for two months, I think. Finally started it this afternoon.
Derek wrote: "Not so fast! iirc, you only have one cat. You may be crazy, but you can't actually be a "crazy cat lady" with one cat."You can , if you hate the cat...
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Welcome Brittany! Personally, I think "belonging" is overrated. Us misfits have far more fun. :)
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I've had it listed as "Currently reading" for two months, I think. Finally started it this afternoon."
I really liked this book. First picked it up because it was the basis for the Tarkovsky film 'Stalker', which I also recommend.
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Hi, Brittany, welcome. I agree w. Ruby that fitting in is overrated :-) Hang out awhile, join in a few group reads - you'll soon know if this is the group for you. I think most of us belong to several groups but are only really active on one or two (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone).
You should check out the Treasure Hunt. You're only 11 days behind, plenty of time to catch up on weaponized animals and evil Dewey Decimal classifications.
Mark & Whitney: At the time I said "finally started" Roadside Picnic, I'd actually just read the first sentence or two. By the time I went to bed, I was a third of the way through. I think I was a bit intimidated by the fact that it's "Russian", but this is no Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. It's a really easy read.
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Hey, you're right. "Knock on wood.""
Nevermind."
Yup. Spoke too soon.
Derek - I actually thought it was you that recommended Roadside Picnic to me originally. Guess not. I did manage to acquire a copy, but haven't started it yet.
Ruby wrote: "Derek - I actually thought it was you that recommended Roadside Picnic to me originally. Guess not. "No, but it would have shown up in my feed when I put it on my Currently-Reading shelf, which often is enough for me to add a book to my own shelves.
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No, but it would have shown up in my feed when I put it on my Currently-Reading s..."
I remember it coming up in at least one of the bookshelf noms, but am too tired to go hunting for it..
Ruby wrote: "Derek wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Lee wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Lee wrote: "Ruby, Ack-Ack Macaque sounds remarkable - it's an entirely different genre, but have you ever come across Killer in Drag by Edward ..."
Oh but Ruby - it's terrible in the way that only Ed Wood can be terrible - I'm with you on not reading bad books - but this is the exception that proves the rule - if that makes any sense? He also wrote a non fiction book Hollywood Rat Race about how to make it in Hollywood (yes it's true) which includes advice about how to find economical lodgings - he recommends sleeping on park benches!
Oh but Ruby - it's terrible in the way that only Ed Wood can be terrible - I'm with you on not reading bad books - but this is the exception that proves the rule - if that makes any sense? He also wrote a non fiction book Hollywood Rat Race about how to make it in Hollywood (yes it's true) which includes advice about how to find economical lodgings - he recommends sleeping on park benches!
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Nice! Maybe I'll pick that up after I get around to John Waters' Role Models..
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There are crazy cat men out there, too. Few and far between. And crazier."
One day I will find a crazy cat man and we will be very, very happy together.