The House that Jack Built is a standard of juvenile literature that delights children and adults alike with the increasingly lengthy sentences, stretched to the breaking point, that make up its narrative. Through a chain of events, beginning with a rodent eating some grain and culminating in a festive wedding, children learn that playing with grammar can be fun! ...
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are famous for their comic talents and numerous television and film appearances. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, they made a wonderful pairing as Jeeves and Wooster, also appearing together in "Blackadder" and "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". Also a successful writer, Stephen Fry now hosts the upmarket BBC2 quiz show QI. Whilst Hugh Laurie has hit the huge time in the US in the television series "House" where he stares as the irascible American Doctor Gregory House.
After 29 years of being out of print and almost unobtainable, National Lampoon’s Animal House (the book) has been rereleased on an unsuspecting public. Written by Chris Miller (based on the screenplay by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, and Chris Miller) The National Lampoon’s Animal House Book follows pretty much the same plot as the wild (and wildly popular) film of the same name.
Edited by: stovokor - 6 August 2009
Reason: category changed to fiction (it IS fiction :D), file extention name corrected: it is CBR !)
The Gun Seller (1996) is Hugh Laurie's first novel. It concerns former Scots Guards officer Thomas Lang and his reluctant involvement in a conspiracy involving international arms dealers, terrorists, the CIA, the MoD, beautiful women and fast motorcycles.
Hugh Laurie played Doctor House in the famous TV series :) The dry and blakish sense of humour is still there :) - stovokor
Edited by: ENGLISHTIPS_admin - 20 July 2009
Reason: Please, put the details in the proper boxes :)
This is a great book about preparing for short-term societal or environmental crises - how to conserve water when the water's not running (after a hurricane, say), how to stay warm and safe when the ice-storm of the century wipes out your natural gas and electricity, or an earthquake shakes your house down around your ears in the middle of the night. Technology, too, is given its due - renewable energy sources like solar and wind are discussed and the best water filters on the market.
