 'The Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis', Coming in May 2008 |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York  |
8 December 2007 - 05:21
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Now on the CBn main page...
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 17 April 2002 From: West Los Angeles, California USA |
8 December 2007 - 16:31
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Well that's just great....
 There goes the title for my autobiography.  Not to mention 004's "How to" manual.  "When it comes to Bond, You've gotta do it" "There's a reason spies don't have many parties. Everyone has a history with everyone else." Bryce (003) - Living Bond so you don't have to. |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
26 December 2007 - 18:34
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Now we have some cover artwork and further details:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/159...ommanderbond-20 ---------------------ɹooןɟǝɔuɐp ----------------------------------ǝɥʇ oʇ -----------------------------------------dn uo -------------------------------------------------ǝɯoɔ |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 2 July 2002 |
15 February 2008 - 06:55
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This books sounds good. Amis was more of a drinker than Fleming I'd say.
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 23 March 2005 From: Muirfield Village, Ohio |
15 February 2008 - 22:52
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I would describe the cover as a bit bland with an after-taste of peat.
They rushed this book right out - Amis died 13 years ago! |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 26 June 2003 From: New York |
16 February 2008 - 01:51
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QUOTE(Double-0-7 @ 15 February 2008 - 17:52)  I would describe the cover as a bit bland with an after-taste of peat. It is a bit odd. ---------------------ɹooןɟǝɔuɐp ----------------------------------ǝɥʇ oʇ -----------------------------------------dn uo -------------------------------------------------ǝɯoɔ |
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Sub-Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 3 January 2007 From: Garnet Valley, PA |
21 March 2008 - 00:26
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Here's an interesting discussion of Amis' books on drinking and his own personal dipsomania:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/014_05/2055 |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 9 November 2004 From: Oxford, Michigan |
21 March 2008 - 16:15
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Sounds rather interesting, I just might have to get this one...
 But today is the thirteenth... |
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 23 March 2005 From: Muirfield Village, Ohio |
21 March 2008 - 22:32
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QUOTE(MarcAngeDraco @ 21 March 2008 - 12:15) Sounds rather interesting, I just might have to get this one... Of course you will - it is a book by a man who authored a Bond novel and a Bond disertation after all! 
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 29 June 2004 From: Germany |
16 June 2008 - 16:13
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Toasting the Joys of Imbibing Properly Got a hangover? Search Google, and you'll find a thousand home remedies, from mild palliatives (buttermilk, honey, bananas) to shock therapy (pickle juice, kudzu extract, raw cabbage). If you can drag yourself into Walgreens or Rite Aid, there's usually a potion or two that promises relief. The problem with these cures, the British novelist Kingsley Amis (1922-95) wrote in his now-classic 1972 book 'On Drink,'is that they deal only with the physical manifestations of a hangover. What also urgently needs to be treated, he observed, is the metaphysical hangover 'that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future' that looms on the grizzled morning after. Amis's ideas for curing a physical hangover were fairly routine, though a few of the crazier ones will make you laugh. ('Go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane, needless to say with a non-hungover person at the controls.') His notions about fixing a metaphysical hangover are where things got interesting. Amis recommended, among other things, a course of 'hangover reading,' one that 'rests on the principle that you must feel worse emotionally before you start to feel better. A good cry is the initial aim.' Toasting the Joys of Imbibing in the Proper Manner - the full article from the New York Times "Its better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
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