Ben
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Post by Ben on Jan 21, 2007 23:46:15 GMT
I'm currently reading this, and it's pretty compelling.
Pity that an actor who gave me so much viewing pleasure has turned out to be such a self-loathing, tragic figure in "real life".
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She never cooks, she keeps a filthy house and she talks profanely!
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Post by puppydogstail on Jan 25, 2007 22:34:47 GMT
I've love these Diaries and have poured over them for years. I flick through them when Im having a shit.
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Post by Rustie Lee on Jan 25, 2007 22:57:18 GMT
Kenny would surely have approved
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Post by Bungle on Jan 26, 2007 0:00:02 GMT
Yes, the diaries are magnificent, although the letters (in a separate volume) are completely missable.
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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Jan 26, 2007 16:01:20 GMT
I've been wanting to buy this book for so long now but everytime I go to get it I always think it's not going to be worth the £15 it's priced at. Yes, I'm that tight at the moment. So do you all recommend it?
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Ben
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Post by Ben on Jan 28, 2007 18:04:27 GMT
I've been wanting to buy this book for so long now but everytime I go to get it I always think it's not going to be worth the £15 it's priced at. Yes, I'm that tight at the moment. So do you all recommend it? Absolutely. |
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Post by bittersweet on Jan 28, 2007 18:21:49 GMT
I've been wanting to buy this book for so long now but everytime I go to get it I always think it's not going to be worth the £15 it's priced at. Yes, I'm that tight at the moment. So do you all recommend it? I'd totally recommend it, its a fascinating read. I've read it twice and am contemplating a third read about now. Everytime a 'Carry On' film comes on I reach for the book to read his thoughts on making that particular one. If you don't want to pay full price (and lets face who does for anything), check out some charity shops, I've seen copies in them before for a few quid. Also recommened KW wise is a BBC Radio Collection 2 CD set called 'The Private World of Kenneth Williams'. Its part diaries and part archive radio clips of him and its pretty good. Its read by David Benson who I think played him in a stage play possibly based on Round The Horne a few years back? I found a mint condition copy of that in Oxfam in Ealing for £2.99, absolute bargin! |
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Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Jan 29, 2007 9:51:14 GMT
Cheers Ben and bittersweet, I was just unsure of whether or not it warranted a £15 price tag. I bought the Sharon Osbourne autobiography a while ago and regretted it almost as soon as I'd finished the first chapter. What tripe
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Post by timydamonkey on Jun 10, 2007 12:31:17 GMT
So it's a good book then? My sixth-form college library has it, and I thought it looked really interesting. (Though I did wonder how many people my age are even going to have a clue who Kenneth Williams is, much less care about his diaries...) I'll have to get it out at some point.
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Post by David Hunter on Jun 10, 2007 16:47:31 GMT
...I did wonder how many people my age are even going to have a clue who Kenneth Williams is, much less care about his diaries... That's something that really saddens me. Growing up, I was as equally aware of people from the past as I was of who was current. I knew as much about, I dunno, Busby Berkley or Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald as I did about whoever was big at the time. That's just the way it was. It means nowadays I can hold an equal conversation with someone 30 years my senior, but find it hard with someone perhaps 15 years younger than me. During a conversation recently with a guy of 24, he asked, amazed, 'when was it illegal to be gay?' He nearly fainted when I told him it's just over 60 years since homosexuals were put into concentration camps and were considered the lowest of the low. I'm all for living for the moment, but I do get sad when people think 'Heat' magazine is the be all and end all. Williams Diaries are very bleak and shouldn't be read thinking they'll be full of witticisms, but they are fascinating. |
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Post by Bungle on Jun 10, 2007 18:14:44 GMT
I'll have to get it out at some point. I just did a little 'fnar' at that, because I have a dirty mind, but it seems rather appropriate for a KW thread. Anyway, you really shouldn't be thinking twice about paying £15 for it let alone borrowing it for free from a library! |
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Post by timydamonkey on Jun 10, 2007 18:22:13 GMT
True.
I was actually rather disturbed to find out I know more actors from around the 60s-80s than I know now - and I'm only 16 so it's not as if I was alive then. They also seem more interesting and more talented than those now, in my opinion.
And yes, it's a good deal being that it doesn't cost to borrow, but I had my friend with me at the time and I disturbed her by being so enthused over it, and so she threw a Red Dwarf novelisation at me instead so that we could leave. I do intend to go back and get it out at some point, though - especially as you all say it's good (I know nobody who's read it, so wasn't sure how worthwhile it was).
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