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'The Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis'


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#1 Qwerty

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Posted 08 December 2007 - 05:21 AM

Now on the CBn main page...



Available to pre-order at amazon.com


#2 Bryce (003)

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Posted 08 December 2007 - 04:31 PM

Well that's just great....:D

There goes the title for my autobiography. :P

Not to mention 004's "How to" manual.

#3 Qwerty

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Posted 26 December 2007 - 06:34 PM

Now we have some cover artwork and further details:

http://www.amazon.co...ommanderbond-20

#4 sharpshooter

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Posted 15 February 2008 - 06:55 AM

This books sounds good. Amis was more of a drinker than Fleming I'd say.

#5 Double-0-7

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Posted 15 February 2008 - 10:52 PM

I would describe the cover as a bit bland with an after-taste of peat.

They rushed this book right out - Amis died 13 years ago!

#6 Qwerty

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Posted 16 February 2008 - 01:51 AM

I would describe the cover as a bit bland with an after-taste of peat.


It is a bit odd.

#7 R. Dittmar

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 12:26 AM

Here's an interesting discussion of Amis' books on drinking and his own personal dipsomania:

http://www.bookforum...int/014_05/2055

#8 MarcAngeDraco

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 04:15 PM

Sounds rather interesting, I just might have to get this one...

#9 Double-0-7

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Posted 21 March 2008 - 10:32 PM

Sounds rather interesting, I just might have to get this one...


Of course you will - it is a book by a man who authored a Bond novel and a Bond disertation after all!

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Posted 16 June 2008 - 04:13 PM

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Toasting the Joys of Imbibing Properly

Got a hangover? Search Google, and you'll find a thousand home remedies, from mild palliatives (buttermilk, honey, bananas) to shock therapy (pickle juice, kudzu extract, raw cabbage). If you can drag yourself into Walgreens or Rite Aid, there's usually a potion or two that promises relief.

The problem with these cures, the British novelist Kingsley Amis (1922-95) wrote in his now-classic 1972 book 'On Drink,'