THE BOYS’ BOOK CLUB WHAT WE’RE READING
JAY PLATT “THE LOST CARRY ONS” by Morris Bright and Robert Ross (Virgin) “THE OFFICIAL CARRY ON QUIZ BOOK” by Chris Cowlin & Paul Burton (Apex publishing)
Books us blokes on the Ponsonby News team are reading, or have recently enjoyed. We LOVE reading in the bath, or in bed. A real stress buster! MARTIN LEACH “FAIR GAME” by Valerie Plame Wilson (Simon & Schuster) The US Government redacted much of the significant information in the first section of Wilson’s memoir, which concerns her career in the CIA. In print, a black bar omits some words and passages. The incompleteness of Wilson’s narrative, at first tantalizing, becomes frustrating. The constant interruptions make it difficult to assemble a coherent story. Once Wilson’s identity is leaked by White House insiders, the memoir’s redactions cease for the most part. Unfortunately, her distress over the attempted destruction of her and her husband’s professional reputations is considerably less riveting than her spy career.
I love the ‘Carry On’ series of films, which I was hooked on from a very early age and I can watch them over and over again. When I was given these two books recently I thought I knew all there was to know about Carry Ons, I have watched them enough times. Apart from the biographies I have read about the actors and actresses that starred in these films. The first book ‘The Lost Carry Ons’ is about some of the extra scenes that were filmed but were missing or were just never put in to the original films either because they were not funny or were just too long. I read this from cover to cover and as I was reading I could hear Kenneth Williams or Sid James in my head and if you know who I am talking about then you’ll know the voices I mean and the laughter. ‘The Official Carry On Quiz Book’ was another great find and I found myself asking people to test me to see how good I was, unfortunately not as good as I would have liked. Still it was loads of fun. And if you like trivia then you will love this.
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