When I first read the breaking tale of the Buttafuoco saga, I was flying in a small jet and laughed so hard I think the plane rocked.
To miss it would be criminal… We are Liars We are beautiful and privileged We are cracked and broken A tale of love and romance A tale of tragedy.
With his ground-breaking Tales of the City novels - a sequence of cheerfully technicoloured bestsellers about the polysexual lives of a network of San Franciscans that started life in 1976 and (up until now) ended in 1992 - Armistead Maupin dissolved this paradigm once and for all.
Many shared heart-breaking tales of loved ones lost, family left behind and homes destroyed.
Between an opening speech, "mission statement" (if you opt to create and share it), introductions, and a few ice breaking fish tales, you'll have no shortage of things to do on the first night.
Based on a true story about the men whose 1962 escape from the San Francisco maximum-security penitentiary ushered in its demise, this thrilling prison-break tale by Dirty Harry director Siegel has all the elements of a great action film.
It could have been a dry tale, but, breaking the story up into bite-sized chapters, Mr Ziegler satisfies every appetite, putting the evolution of the scholarships in the context of a changing world, bringing to life the many people in the story and all the while finding apt and amusing things to say about them.
As Mr Greenwald tells it: "If disclosing proof that top-level national security officials lied outright to Congress about domestic spying programmes doesn't make one indisputably a whistle-blower, then what does?" The first third of the book tells the exciting tale of breaking the story.
While once we may have been close enough to share personal tales of broken hearts or fears of going broke, we are unable to visit the issue of the broken self-image.
In 1985, Cadbury Schweppes bought the company, heralding a quiet period – broken by occasional morality tales about teenage drinkers using them to add bubbles to Buckfast and make alcohol act faster.
