http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 22:01:17 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-81501 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:27:01 +0000 Golgo13 81501@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This piece has already appeared as a NiB - not trying to recycle - only pointing out that the Great Gatsby revival of 2011 coincides nicely with the expiration of copyright in December 2010. </p> <p> not able to predict useful stuff though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-81435 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:18:15 +0000 Oxbridge 81435@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Possible last sentence?: 'That's saved me a lot of money to spend on modern classics. I mean, I'm not very likely to outlive Katie Price by 70 years, so I've had to shell out big time for all hers.'</p> <p>5*. Even though I think Fitzgerald is grossly overrated. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-81426 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:46:42 +0000 Des Custard 81426@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Like it. Must advise Kindle users in family. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-81420 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:41:03 +0000 Golgo13 81420@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>New Hollywood adaptation of the Great Gatsby in production this year...</p> <p>coincidence?</p> <p>I think not.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14238693" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14238693</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-39630 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:53:21 +0000 Basil_B 39630@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>On that note may Geoffrey Archer live a long and happy life. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-39626 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:23:12 +0000 Golgo13 39626@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers. Good to see you still here. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-39625 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:21:58 +0000 arrghgarry 39625@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>nice to see you back </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14632#post-39609 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:18:15 +0000 Golgo13 39609@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>December 21st will mark the 70th anniversary of the death of <em>Great Gatsby</em> author F. Scott Fitzgerald, and trigger a bonanza for stingy literature fans everywhere, who admire his work, but would rather pay jack shit for it.</p> <p>Avid reader and skinflint, Justin Higgins, gushed, 'Fitzgerald is a giant of 20th century American literature and was admired by T.S.Eliot, Salinger, so many. <em>The Great Gatsby</em> is among a very few books widely considered to be <em>the</em> Great American Novel, and I’d love to get my hands on a copy but £6.99?…I think I’ll wait till after the copyright runs out on December 21st.’</p> <p>Applications for electronic book readers offer thousands of classic titles for free download if they satisfy the ‘Life plus 70’ rule, of the author having died 70 or more years ago, meaning penny-pinching admirers of the Jazz Age writer have only a few more weeks to wait before being able to acquire his entire life's output without paying his estate or publisher a single red cent.</p> <p>'I’ve got all the dates for next year on my iPad calendar' smiled self-confessed bookworm and tightwad Nicky Hansen. ‘January 13th is James Joyce, March 28th is Virginia Woolf, and June 1st is Hugh Walpole', adding with a chuckle, 'if I live until 2074, I can get <em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</em> for free.' </p> <p>'I guess we owe [Fitzgerald] our thanks not only for his contribution to the literary arts, but also for drinking himself to death at such a young age.' </p>