I remember my Dad telling me once that he didn't particularly like the Billy Bunter books where Bunter went for adventures abroad, that is outside of the immediate vicinity of Greyfriar's school. After reading this book I can now see why – it was absolutely atrocious, or more so really really painfu...
As I was trying to work out the next book that I would read I noticed that one of Dad's old Billy Bunter bookers was still sitting on top of my bookshelf (all of the books that I borrow off of people end up on top of my bookshelf so I don't lose them, or get them mixed up with my books). Anyway, sin...
Well, I have just come back from watching a performance of The Importance of Being Ernest and while I would love to write about the play I don't feel that I am able to because while I have seen it performed, I have not actually read it (and I wonder why I would read it since performance that I saw w...
"Chuck me over a deck chair!" says the Owl of the Remove. Bob Cherry and Harry Wharton each grab hold of one end and are happy to oblige."Ow! Leggo! Yaroo!" roars Bunter. "I mean... chuck me over a deck chair!" This doesn't help at all.What he actually should have said, of course, was that he intend...