AIBU Books Game Part Eight

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Post an AIBU from the point of view of a fictional character (from novels/nursery rhymes/plays etc) and everyone tries to guess the book and/or the character.

Everyone welcome to play/time-waste as much or as little as they please :)

AIBU to be protective of my DD?

Hello everyone!

What was yours, Treacle?

Nice work Treacle & Moomin, I am indeed Jade the troll AKA Carborundum, in Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment. It's all feminism and trolls and why have wars and stuff. Nice.

Pondering yours, Moomin. Are you staying with that slightly better off family who always make your sisters look a little, well, uncouth?

Elephants, I was Eugene Wrayburn, the irritatingly purposeless lawyer and Lizzie-pesterer from Our Mutual Friend.

AIBU to refuse to marry him?

Thanks Treacle, I am still a Dickens virgin, so totally clueless on anything not made into a musical by Lionel Bart.

Well, do you love him? Is he trying to get you to sign away all your money to him?

Elephants, I struggle a bit with Dickens but Our Mutual Friend is fab.

It's just rather a strange payment. I'm not sure I ought to do it, but it's a bit of an impulse thing.

You haven't read Dickens, Elephants?

Actually, I haven't read all of his, but Our Mutual Friend is my favourite and probably a good place to start if you're interested (bar A Christmas Carol, of course!)

MCP everyone!

...I don't really know how I feel about him. I don't really trust men after everything that happened with my last boyfriend...

Evening, everyone! I hope all the lurgy-sufferers have recovered now.

My last one was Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm.

Well done, Pogle! Talk about getting the New Year off to a cracking start. You'd think a Twelfth Night birthday was pretty memorable, no matter what they've been up to at home.

MCP!

AIBU to hope they catch up with my brother?

I shall get Our Mutual Friend for my christmas present Kindle - hopefully it will be cheap! I was thinking I should fill in some of the gaps in my reading,moving on to thinking really I should at least try Dickens...
I have read A Christmas Carol,at school,but that's it - the names of the characters irritate me so much and I've never got past that(odd,considering that I can cope with Thorinson Aelfwine Elf-friend,or whatever,without batting an eyelid)

Your last boyfriend,Treacle - did he break your heart? Run off with your fortune?

MCP!

What was yours, Pogle?

Why so shocked Treacle? I am a bit fick, or rather, a bit lazy, in that gloomy long-winded moralists (like Dickens and Hardy) are waaaay below the entire Heyer catalogue on my reading list.

Not that shocked really, Elephants, but most people seem to have been forced into reading Dickens at some point at school - which is why I hate Great Expectations. He's a lot less gloomy than Hardy, though, honest! But admittedly a lot less fun than Heyer. I love Heyer.

Pogle, I just read Our Mutual Friend on my Christmas present Kindle too! It's free, which is nice.

Moomin, I thought Christmas at Cold Comfort was the sequel? When they've turned it into a conference centre? Mind you, it's been a long time since I read it.

...My last boyfriend? Well, I shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but he wasn't very nice. I had to break it off once he proposed...

Gosh - so much happening! And llandb I loved 'fany your old flame' :)

and there's another visit to the Starkadders? Pre or post? God I love that book

Speaking of funny and clever Dickens is nothing like Hardy - funny bits great characters and good comeuppance. Marvellous stuff and narry a pig's pizzle signifying lust (although I'm not sure that one wouldn't liven up the first 2,000 pages of Bleak House - and Middlemarch could definitely do with a pig's dick to cheer it up IMHO )

I may be digressing - I have got very lost of late and am really only popping in to eat lentils (can one groffle lentils in the way one can with mince pies? I would say they are too virtuous)

Moomin is he guilty? Are you afraid of him? Does he hang dogs for fun or as a courtship ritual?

I don't think lentils are groffle-able. I think something has to be heavily calorie-laden to qualify for groffling status.

Treacle, I think you're thinking of Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, which was a sequel and a short novel, rather than Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm, which was set in the days before Flora reformed them and is a short story. I do have a copy of Conference and all trace of it has vanished from my memory so I think it's high time I re-read it!

My last one, polished off by clever Pogle almost immediately, was me defaulting to AF territory. It was Run Away Home and Ginty complaining they'd forgotten her birthday. An extra clue was that I started it on the date of her birthday (which is probably very sad indeed).

I like Dickens, although I haven't read them all, and I am pondering the Kindle so will be very interested to hear what you make of it - I'm a bit put off by the idea of buying the books from Amazon.

...Some people might say I'm BU given that he's sure to be hanged if they catch him. But he's pushed me too far...

MCP!

Don't worry, Unruly, no dogs are harmed in my one! People don't fare so well.

Did he do something specifically to you Moomin? Or is he just a wrong 'un?

I think one dutifully sups on lentils. Agree that groffling is for enjoyable foods only. Ones with at least 50% fat content, for preference.

Love the idea of pigs bits being chucked around Middlemarch, although I'm sure that's one of Ms Evans's works, rather than Mr D. Mainly because I have read it. And I wouldn't have done if it had his name on it

Although thanks for recommendation - Our Mutual Friend eh? Was put off Bleak House having seen the series, and not being impressed by the "oops, people catching fire for no reason!" plotline.

Sorry I'm not really helping with the progression of this thread at all. I am totally clueless as ever. :)

I think one can groffle lentils - but then, I really like lentils. Especially those big green ones served with lots of feta. I would be hard pressed to groffle a celery stick though.

Glad to have the Cold Comfort thing cleared up - in that case, I am going to be on the lookout for the Christmas one, definitely haven't read that!

I LOVE my kindle - I must say I wasn't sure how much I'd like it but I've been converted. Of course, nothing will replace REAL books for reading by the fire/in the bath/at home but for travelling (and fitting in a small bag) it's perfect. And you don't have to buy books from Amazon - they have lots of free ebooks and you can also download anything from gutenberg and the like.

...I must confess I was glad when my ex-boyfriend died, but it did land me in a heap of trouble...

I gave up on progression a while ago. I am sure there is going to turn out to be a rule about every third post needing to contain something pertinent to the stated purpose of the thread and I will get disciplined by the thread police :(

I knew that Middlemarch wasn't one of Mr D's despite never having got beyond the first chapter It just stands out for me as a novel which could definitely use some enlivening - in this case by the addition of the generative member of an animal of the porcine persuasion. :)

You are making the Kindle sound dangerously tempting, Treacle!

So was your ex the type who offered marriage as a "bad conduct prize" and were you accused of poisoning the blighter?

...What has he not done?! He's disgraced our name, and robbed our mother and my wife...

at missing Run Away Home ... Now, if you'd done a year earlier, it could have been 'AIBU to be cross at missing the geese?'

Is no one going to guess mine? The money was supposed to be for the builder, but I just happened to have it on me at the right time and it was SUCH an impulse buy ... Hardly legal though ...

Lentils should certainly not be groffled. The very idea.

I loved the BBC Bleak House - got completely drawn into it, and even loved the spontaneous combustion bit (it helped that it was Johnny Vegas, who I loathe). But I still struggle with the book. I also loved Middlemarch, way back in the dark ages whe. I was at university, but I don't think I would rush to read it again. A bit like Henry James - sort of worth it by the end, but bloody hard work getting there.

Gosh CJ what have you been buying? An immortal soul? Pleasures of the flesh? A lovely big red apple which will send you to sleep for a hundred years? Something altogether more prosaic like lentils?

One minute - CJ, have you been buying a little girl? If so, YADNBU but probably a bit stupid not to worry about who will be hunting you/her down. And YANBU for reading Kate Atkinson (if, indeed, it is so) because she is a wonderful writer and I lurve her

Unruly, I confess I loved Middlemarch. The characters in it feel like real people. Loved the Fred Vincy (?) and Mary Garth relationship. She's kind of waiting for him to grow up/be sensible enough to deal with as an adult. Who hasn't been there? :o

Lentils - well it's a bit like tofu; you have to have it with lots of oily or fatty stuff and then it's fab. A bit like dry toast vs buttered toast :o

Elephants, well done - have a beaten-up but very loyal, friendly dog as a prize. I also lurve KA - think we've discussed Behind the Scenes in the past?

Oh, a lovely dog. How nice :)

llandb - yes lentils with cheese (goats cheese for me - don't all vomit at once) can be delicious. As a vegetarian I had to learn to love lentils along with mushrooms or I'd never be able to eat out at all.

AIBU to think about plastic surgery?