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By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:52:46 +0000

@Steve: Do you have any of your own shows? I decided who to vote for six months ago. Go to the newest post to continue kibbitzing.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:45:17 +0000

@Grey: And, relatively speaking, not much actually happens here (a great contry to live tho). Partly explains why some of us are quite outward-looking in terms of popular culture and what-not.
Although when it comes to popular culture, you guys have done a pretty fair job of exporting it
Decided who to vote for?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:03:44 +0000

@Steve: Aw, you guys are tiny. How cute.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:38:29 +0000

Actually, 4.2 million NZers. There are 13 mill or so in LA alone…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:35:42 +0000

@Grey: Nah – our Amazon stuff has to come from the US. And to get it here quickly, it starts to become a bit expensive (especially in the current economic climate) with the state of the NZ dollar vs the US dollar).

I’ve already emailed my favourite bookstore here for price and availablity though

Borders is probably our biggest.

Gotta remember, there’s only 3 million people here. Not the sort of market that attracts the Amazons and B and Ns of this world to set up locally.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:31:12 +0000

@Steve: Don't you guys have Amazon? Or a giant bookstore like Barnes and Noble?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:43:31 +0000

@Grey: Quaint notion isn't it? It's probably the quickest way of getting hold of it, if it isn't available in stores. I do prefer to buy books, though.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:32:44 +0000

@Steve: You know when you really love a book (or movie) how you wish you didn't see it so you could see again for the first time? That's how I feel about that one. But library? You use libraries in New Zealand?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:28:32 +0000

@Grey: Yeah – Kavalier and Clay.

Read it? Hadn’t even heard of it.

The Auckland City Library has it, though, so I’ll get right on it.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:23:58 +0000

@Steve: Yeah, I don't think I've read any Elroy stuff, will definitely check it out. You'll check out what? Kavalier and Clay? You haven't read it? You absolutely have to. It's incredible.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:51:13 +0000

@Grey: Wow. That looks pretty cool - will definitely check that out. I have to say that the fiction I go for tends to resemble non fiction. Best example is the James Elroy stuff (you should check that out too) that I posted about in the forums a couple of months ago. It's fiction, but full of actual historical figures.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:37:43 +0000

@Steve: I'm a total non-fiction guy. The last fiction book I read that I loved was The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and that read like non-fiction.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:35:11 +0000

@Grey: Are you a fiction or non-fiction guy? I'm overwhelmingly non-fiction - and probably too much sports.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:32:09 +0000

@Steve: Yeah, I'll check it out. I'm a bit behind in books I have to read. I think Houdini's biography is up next.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:30:12 +0000

@Grey: It's still got me for now. You should check out that Halberstam collection of sports writing (Everything They Had) - he was one of the true greats IMHO.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:25:14 +0000

@Steve: I think that one won the Pulitzer too. Yeah, me and Mr. Pulitzer don't always see eye to eye. I got about a week into him walking around aimlessly and I put it down to never pick it up again. EDIT: Wrong word. Dur.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:20:35 +0000

@Grey: I think my dad may have it somewhere, so might check it out. I have just started reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Bleak.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:16:26 +0000

@Steve: Rudy recommended it to me and usually our taste march to a similar beat, but I felt like it was the same thesis statement beat over and over again. I think it won a Pulitzer too, which is a decent enough sign that it’s good, but, yeah, I just couldn’t get fully behind it. By no means am I confident in telling you it’s a boring read. You might like it; I just didn’t.

http://lin.cr/6fb

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:05:33 +0000

@Grey: There's an indigenous people called the Maori, who came here by sea from Eastern Polynesia. Then there's the rest of us, and our descendants mainly came from Britain. In my case, my ancestry is mainly Scottish I think. Is that a good book, BTW? I've heard good things about it.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:00:52 +0000

@Steve: Where are the Zealanders originally from? I read Germs, Guns and Steel, but I forget if they covered youse.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:57:23 +0000

@Grey: No need to apologise. Hater was being historically accurate. It's a known fact that many Australians are descended from convicts that were shipped there from Britain. And we New Zealanders are only too happy to remind them of it.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:54:28 +0000

@Steve: Whoa... Sorry... Not sure how Hater got out of his ball gag.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:43:36 +0000

@Hater Bell: That makes you practically an Australian.

By: Hater Bell

Hater Bell — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:42:06 +0000

@Steve: No, but I had an uncle that was imprisoned for murder.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:38:32 +0000

@Hater Bell: Bloke? Are you descended from New Zealanders or Australians, by chance?

By: Hater Bell

Hater Bell — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:36:41 +0000

@Michael: You know what Twit is one letter away from? Twix. They're delicious. Now go vote! Hater Bell for write-in in 2008.

By: Hater Bell

Hater Bell — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:34:03 +0000

@Steve: He's a decent bloke. Wait, did I say bloke? I meant blowhard. Yeah, he's the first one in my aims. Brace yourself, fool!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:32:50 +0000

Wow, everyone Twit these days… I feel so behind.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:31:30 +0000

@Hater Bell: Especially that Grey fella. He's gotta go.

By: Hater Bell

Hater Bell — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:11 +0000

@Steve: I'm going to take a flamethrower to this whole blog. And dolphins. I hate them.