Yes, THAT Hugh Laurie. I'm barely five pages in, and wow... just... wow. Go. Read. It. Now.

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Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:06:15 2010 No.850235 [Reply] [Original]

Yes, THAT Hugh Laurie.

I'm barely five pages in, and wow... just... wow.

Go. Read. It. Now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:07:15 2010 No.850242 >>850238 Fuck you, Laurie was awesome well before that. OP, it's on my to read list!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:07:15 2010 No.850238 >>850235 Is it about an antisocial doctor who doesn't give a damn about anyone and plays by nobody's rules? No? Then fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:08:15 2010 No.850249 File: 24 KB, 267x269, surprised_baby_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>850235

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:09:15 2010 No.850260 >>850238 No, so far it's about a drily witty guy who who has pissed off someone large and bald. The prose is just.. astonishing. This is the best thing I've read in the past five years, i think.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:14:15 2010 No.850290 >>850238 /thread

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:15:15 2010 No.850296 >>850290 why do you have to suck so bad, WHY?

Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:17:15 2010 No.850306

>>850242
>>850249
for you guys, the first few paragraphs, just to whet your appetite:

Imagine that you have to break someone’s arm.
Right or left, doesn’t matter. The point is that you have to break it, because if you don’t . . . well, that doesn’t matter either. Let’s just say bad things will happen if you don’t.
Now, my question goes like this: do you break the arm quickly - snap, whoops, sorry, here let me help you with that improvised splint - or do you drag the whole business out for a good eight minutes, every now and then increasing the pressure in the tiniest of increments, until the pain becomes pink and green and hot and cold and altogether howlingly unbearable?
Well exactly. Of course. The right thing to do, the only thing to do, is to get it over with as quickly as possible. Break the arm, ply the brandy, be a good citizen. There can be no other answer.
Unless.
Unless unless unless.
What if you were to hate the person on the other end of the arm? I mean really, really hate them.
This was a thing I now had to consider.
I say now, meaning then, meaning the moment I am describing; the moment fractionally, oh so bloody fractionally, before my wrist reached the back of my neck and my left humerus broke into at least two, very possibly more, floppily joined-together pieces.
The arm we’ve been discussing, you see, is mine. It’s not an abstract, philosopher’s arm. The bone, the skin, the hairs, the small white scar on the point of the elbow, won from the corner of a storage heater at Gateshill Primary School - they all belong to me. And now is the moment when I must consider the possibility that the man standing behind me, gripping my wrist and driving it up my spine with an almost sexual degree of care, hates me. I mean, really, really hates me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:20:15 2010 No.850322 >>850306 This sound frighteningly unoriginal...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:20:15 2010 No.850325 >>850306 That's... huh. Actually pretty good. Almost Pynchonesque in places. Who knew.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:21:15 2010 No.850330 >>850238 This. As soon as he writes a book about his alter ego; I'll read it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:22:15 2010 No.850334 >>850306 Sounds like something I'd write, with my friends shouting over my shoulder to do this or that. Maybe it's not bad...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:23:15 2010 No.850341 File: 30 KB, 425x425, beard face.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>850325 >Pynchonesque

>>	carlos !penisASZp2 Tue Jun 29 21:24:15 2010 No.850355 >>850235 books only $5 on amazon. Sweeeeeet

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:25:15 2010 No.850361 >>850235 Sometimes I wonder if people come to 4chan just to talk up their own shit. You know, if you somehow proved to me you are Hugh Laurie, I'd buy your book in a heartbeat.

Anonymous Tue Jun 29 21:27:15 2010 No.850381

It may or may not be good but Hugh Laurie is just one of those people that are so multi talented and intelligent that it sickens me sometimes. Yeah it's a jealousy thing I suppose but still. I mean the guy is a good actor, he's an archeologist or some shit, and one day he said "hmmm, think I'll take a crack at a fucking novel" and he has 2 I think. So, I don't know.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:19:15 2010 No.850608 File: 58 KB, 251x251, 1275199830679.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>850325 >Actually pretty good. Almost Pynchonesque in places. Ooohohohoh wow, you guys are too much.

>>	carlos !penisASZp2 Tue Jun 29 22:20:15 2010 No.850613 >>850381 And he plays a mean guitar. Also he made his audition tape for House in a hotel room using an umbrella for a cane.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:23:15 2010 No.850616 >>850361 He's not talking his own shit up, it's just a standard that a lot of writers use. Start by introducing a concept, relate the concept to the story, segue into the story. It's alright, but it's not mind-blowing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:34:15 2010 No.850653 >>850361 ah, you got me, yes, I'm hugh laurie. I come to 4 chan all the time, cuz I don't have a life and I have waaaaay too much free time on my hands. I've become successful because I spend every spare second arguing with assholes on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:35:15 2010 No.850658 Wow. That's pretty good. House wrote this? Well, fuck my shit. I'm buying.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:37:15 2010 No.850668 >>850653 Of course, the real reason you know that Hugh Laurie doesn't come here is because Hugh Laurie is, in fact, tremendously funny.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:39:15 2010 No.850675 >>850260 >This is the best thing I've read in the past five years, i think. I can believe that it's a good book, but the best thing you've read "in years"? You sound like a House fanboy.

Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:40:15 2010 No.850684

>>850616
he also plays piano, (every time you see him do it on House he's actually playing) guitar, drums, harmonica and saxophone he was going to be a professional rower, but he got mono or something and couldn't keep doing it, so he went into theatre.

He's done demolition derby, and suffers from clinical depression.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 22:41:15 2010 No.850687 >>850675 Nah, I just have been reading crap for five years.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 23:16:15 2010 No.850807 >>850306 That's not too bad, actually. He'd probably do better with scripts, though. It seems he likes conversational tones.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 23:19:15 2010 No.850815 >>850306 Did anyone else read it in his voice? His actual English voice and not his gruff American accent? Oh God

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 23:24:15 2010 No.850838 >>850815 Yeah, I'm finding myself reading the whole thing like that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 23:32:15 2010 No.850877 >>850815 HOLYSHI- I so want to read this. I feel kind of shallow since the hook for me is that Hugh Laurie wrote it but still....

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 23:35:15 2010 No.850896 >>850877 That's not shallow, that's recognizing quality when you see it. He's a fucking talented man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 29 23:56:15 2010 No.850994 >>850815 No I pretty much read it in House's voice. That just might be enough for me to read the whole thing. Now, if we had an audiobook of this THEN we'd be in business!

Anonymous Wed Jun 30 01:19:15 2010 No.851299

I had no idea he had even written anything until I picked up a copy of Big Machine by Victor LaValle at a bookstore, and saw it sitting right there. I had to pick it up just to make sure it wasn't an author who happens to share the same name. My reaction was identical to that of >>850877 although a /lit/ thread might actually persuade me to give it a go.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 11:09:15 2010 No.852774 Didn't he cowrite the skits on A Little Bit of Fry and Laurie? Because they were pretty damn good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 11:16:15 2010 No.852790 I don't watch House, never have. I only remember him as Stuart Little's dad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:08:15 2010 No.852874 >>850815 I did. In his jolly way of speaking back in the Fry and Laurie and Blackadder days. Quite..uh...quite something.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:10:15 2010 No.852878 >>852774 Yeah. I think he wrote them with some guy called Frie or something. They're pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:15:15 2010 No.852889 a pretty enjoyable read, I like how he used his experience as a comedian to spin an otherwise unremarkable detective story into the Hitchhiker's Guide to James Bond

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:22:15 2010 No.852909 Eh. Will pick it up out of curiosity's sake.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:23:15 2010 No.852912 HOLY SHIT I NEED TO READ THIS

Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:43:15 2010 No.852960
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>Both my faces when poeple don't know that Hugh Laurie co-wrote wrote one of the best comedy shows that focused largely on it's language.
Seriously guys, he had a career before House.
A better one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:47:15 2010 No.852973 >>852960 Fuck yeah this God damn Americunts

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:54:15 2010 No.852990 >>852960 >Implying he was ANYTHING before house.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:56:15 2010 No.852997 >>852990 0/10 Fry and Laurie, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster = fucking national treasures

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:58:15 2010 No.853007 >>852960 I can't read any Wodehouse book without imagining Fry and Laurie in it somehow, even the books that aren't about Jeeves and Wooster.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:58:15 2010 No.853010 >>852973 Nobody twisted his arm to ruin his career eurofag. We can't help that you're all immoral slaves to the american dollar.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 12:59:15 2010 No.853012 >>852997 0/10 It's not lupus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:01:15 2010 No.853017 >>853010 never said they did, just raging about united statians calling him House

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:03:15 2010 No.853026 File: 16 KB, 320x310, wooster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853007 This is a case of perfect casting. I read P.G. in their voices and it rules.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:04:15 2010 No.853032 >>852997 americans just wont touch anything they regurgitate, so glad i wasnt born in that piece of shit country

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:04:15 2010 No.853028 >>853012 derpa herpa hurrpa durrpa

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:18:15 2010 No.853071 >>853032 What country are you from then?

Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:30:15 2010 No.853099

Downloaded immediately after discovering it exists.

And I just laugh at Americans, because through their arrogance and ignorance, they'll never know how funny Hugh Laurie is. Honestly, if you only know Hugh from House, do yourself a favour and at least look up A Bit Of Fry And Laurie on YouTube. I've never met anyone who disliked that show, but then I've never met an American and they might object to the fact Stephen and Hugh speak English.

Actually, that's a little harsh. If you read a lot, which I'm assuming you /lit/erary types do, you'll probably appreciate their humour.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:31:15 2010 No.853106 >>853099 Wow, you are simultaneously incredibly arrogant & presumptuous and incredibly ignorant. Fuck you. Just... fuck you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:34:15 2010 No.853111 >>853032 what does it matter? ive met people from all over the world and every american i met was a douche.....occassion a pretty cool guy then turned douche and bailed

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:35:15 2010 No.853115 >>853106 wow what's your problem, did pretentious arrogance kill your parents? Anon's just pissed about the number of youtube comments about how good House's english accent is.

Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:38:15 2010 No.853127

>>853115
Anon is up his own ass and thinks things about Americans that are completely unwarranted on the basis of basically nil experience.

I mean, judging anything by Youtube comments is simply retarded. But it's not just that, it's the sheer arrogance and faux-superiority evinced by that dude.

For reference, I'm an American, and I've seen Fry and Laurie and I've known loads of other people who have as well. And they all loved it, so shut it, you prick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:39:15 2010 No.853132 >>853032 >>853111 I'm calling a samefag since there's not a lot of people who don't capitalize their "i"s and spell that bad on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:41:15 2010 No.853141 >>853127 do you take meds for that anger problem of yours?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:42:15 2010 No.853148 >>853132 well youre a genious im lying on the lounge like a trooper

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:43:15 2010 No.853156 >>853148 well youre a high right now

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:44:15 2010 No.853158 >>853141 Of course he does, he's American.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:47:15 2010 No.853169 File: 9 KB, 450x310, 1269665816643.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853141 >Show ignorance by claiming others are ignorant. >Anon gets irked and calls other anon on this bullshit. >Why so mand anon?

>>	Carlos !penisASZp2 Wed Jun 30 13:49:15 2010 No.853177 >>853099 >American and they might object to the fact Stephen and Hugh speak English. >Speak English Hugh speaks English on House too bro, no ones going to be shocked.

Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:51:15 2010 No.853185

Jesus Christ, this thread went to shit fast
hey britfags, you aren't really less self-centered dumbfucks than americans if you expect the whole world to know Hugh Laurie through his career previous to international fame (hell, someone even called it a NATIONAL treasure, notice the emphasis)
americunts, get your head off your asses and give the book a try (I know, an alien concept to most of you) because, if anything, House owes most of its quality to the edge Laurie's snark brought the character

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:56:15 2010 No.853195 >>853185 I'm not a britfag or an americunt but yeah, let's stop this shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:57:15 2010 No.853199 File: 113 KB, 500x339, hugh_laurie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853185 >snarky cunt >national treasure >green text

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:59:15 2010 No.853204 >>853185 (I know, an alien concept to most of you >Try to stop fighting >Call Americans illiterate Good going, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 13:59:15 2010 No.853205 File: 107 KB, 583x379, 47cdnx5.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853199 >Stephenggettinghisrapefaceon.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:00:15 2010 No.853206 >>853185 Wait wait wait wait You want to stop arguing and then you call Americans - SPECIFICALLY Americans posting on a message board dedicated to literature - out for not being well read enough? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:00:15 2010 No.853207 House M.D. is a mediocre show at best and Hugh Laurie owes much of his television/film career to his agents and Rowan Atkinson.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:01:15 2010 No.853211 >>853207 Doesn't most of Britain's sketch comedy scene owe its existence to Rowan Atkinson Also, Hugh Laurie is a fucking hilarious guy in his own right, absolutely excellent comedian.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:02:15 2010 No.853217 House is a good show and the book seems like a good book. Hugh Laurie talented, Anon angry and stupid, water still wet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:03:15 2010 No.853219 >>853204 >facepalm.jpg He/she was clearly reffering to the getting your heads out of your asses part which balances out the self-centred Britfags comment at the start. You are kinda dumb.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:04:15 2010 No.853224 File: 10 KB, 400x300, blackadder3_1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853205 >heytherebigguy.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:05:15 2010 No.853225 >>853206 >>853204 I never thought americunts were stupid fucks but you two make me wanna reconsider

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:07:15 2010 No.853233 File: 12 KB, 300x224, 300px-frylaurie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853224 >relaxyouranus.jpg

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:11:15 2010 No.853249 >>853224 >>853233 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9crgpsKj70

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:17:15 2010 No.853267 File: 18 KB, 379x214, 1277670426070.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853249

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:27:15 2010 No.853294 >>853249 they were so doing it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKpN8uEEa5c also shitty audio is shitty

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 14:43:15 2010 No.853335 File: 19 KB, 288x216, 153610__fearloathing_l.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853294 >Freddie-kins

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 16:39:15 2010 No.853698 >>852790 >>850238 Has nobody here ever watched Blackadder? I am thoroughly disappoint.

>>	Cabot Wed Jun 30 16:40:15 2010 No.853701 >>853698 I have. Laurie is fantastic in that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:05:15 2010 No.853774 >>853698 so you missed the shitstorm in the middle of the thread? Good for you. Beautyful Georgina always related

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:06:15 2010 No.853778 File: 12 KB, 400x300, Blackadder_IV_-_Major_Star.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853774 and here she is, fashionably late

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:11:15 2010 No.853805 Read it thrice. It's amazing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:15:15 2010 No.853819 >>853778 Hugh Laurie in drag is a more common occurance that one might think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF0aoqZfNQ0&feature=related

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:18:15 2010 No.853833 >>853819 fuck yeah vox pop! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9hRIjys4Qw

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:25:15 2010 No.853866 File: 11 KB, 181x243, 1261062116222s.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>853833 these are awesome, if he wrote a quater of that I'm reading the book

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:29:15 2010 No.853880 >>850306 I read this in Hugh Laurie's british accent. I Need This Book

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:31:15 2010 No.853890 >>853866 I'm pretty sure they went 50-50 with Fry, so yeah, buy that book.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:55:15 2010 No.853980 Good book. Go read it. That is all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 17:57:15 2010 No.853990 >>853980 sir yes sir!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 30 20:58:15 2010 No.854806 >>853833 I just bought the book because of this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 1 00:21:15 2010 No.855554 >>853833 Hello? Police? I think I've just been trolled. That wasn't funny at all.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 1 15:06:19 2010 No.857496 >>855554 This is police officer Anon speaking. I suggest you stay where you are and wait for the ambulance. You might be delirious and have a compromised sense of humor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAE5z8Ct56g&feature=related

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 1 15:32:55 2010 No.857596 I shall make it a part of my summer list at once.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 1 17:34:42 2010 No.857993 >>853698 I'm American, but the only TV shows I saw before the age of ten were Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and Are You Being Served?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 1 17:40:01 2010 No.858003 This thread's still going? Just as well, it reminded me to buy this.

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