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StevenEdmondson |
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Speaking of Norweigan Wood, Tran Anh Hung is set to direct a film adaptation soon. I think it could work really, really well.
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montichka |
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samphire hoe wrote:That depends on what therapeutic use you put your hands to, surely? Monty x It is this that brings us together |
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samphire hoe |
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^ absolutely mon tinker.
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a Love like that! -It lights the whole Sky. (Hafiz) |
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Tigerfoot |
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I'm just into The Grass Crown by Collen McCullough, about the rise of the Caesars in ancient Rome (I think). Big problem with stuff like this:
"Who else?" asked Marius. "Marcus Aemilius Scaurus Princeps Senatus, and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Pontifex Maximus, and Quintus Lutatius Catulus Caesar, and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica..." That's just four people! |
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samphire hoe |
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Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scriptures.
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a Love like that! -It lights the whole Sky. (Hafiz) |
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birgittesc |
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Currently reading:
* The Poisoned Stream by Hans Habe * How a CIA agent recovered his memory and other true stories by Harald Merckelback & Marko Jelicic (Dutch book from the library but I translated the title so you know what it's about) * The Wounded Land: Journey Through A Divided America by Hans Habe Aevericka BirgitteSC.com Birgitte's Kate Bush Page "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." -- Albert Einstein |
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Two Steps On The Water |
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I normally don't post in this section as everyone who posts seems to be reading worthy classics or factual books requiring greater intellect than my lowly
IQ!
When I read a book I have have to be gripped by the story right from the start. I only read in bed, therefore if it isn't a page turner it finds its way into my bedside drawer never to see the light of day again. For that reason I can hardly open my bedside drawer as it is so full of books that I started to read and lost interest. I have just finished reading The Red Dahlia by Lynda La Plante. It was the second book featuring Detective Inspector Anna Travis, a young detective with a lot to learn, but with a good head on her shoulders. It was fast paced and had me fighting sleep so I could read more.
Phil
And I’ll be Two Steps on The Water |
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KerryLNeal |
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I'm now about half way through Les Bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell - which I started immediately after reading it the translation,
'The Kindly Ones' - it's such a good, and important book, that I just had to read it in the original. It's the fictional memoir of an
SS Officer who served in the Eastern Front, then Stalingrad, and then for the fall of Berlin ... on the one hand it functions in much the same way as War
and Peace (to which it has been compared frequently) in using war and a detailed study of military functions and tactic as a backdrop for wider ranging
and spectacular moral/philosophical explorations, but it's real strength is in the depiction of the atrocities of the Nazis as a bureaucratic function of
an elaborate state apparatus, cloaked in legality and an illusion of order and dialectic ... and how persuasive that machinery was in allowing even
intellectual, educated individuals to rationalise to themsleves what they did. I can't recommend it enough, even though it's definitely not an
'easy' book - it comes in at about 1000 pages, and I imagine that if you have no knowledge of German language and history certain parts would be a
little confusing (although there's an excellent glossary at the back) - but the rewards are enormous, not least in the diversions and sub-plots (there are
pages on pages of discussions of east -European lingustics, for example, which somehow manages to be fascinating) and there are ceratin set-pieces - like a
dialectic comparisan of communism and National Socialism between Aue, the SS Officer and a captured Soviet Commisar - that are sublimely satisfying.
He had no grand scheme, no strategy, no agreement with higher authorities, nothing beyond a vague longing for glory and a generalized wish for revenge. |
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Deb1B |
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Well, bless you, Phil Two Steps, because you have described, above, exactly what reading for pleasure is about. I should think MOST writers would be more than happy
to learn their words had readers fighting sleep in order to keep turning pages. Far preferable to boring their audience witless, without question.
There is good writing and there is bad writing. One can find literature in the thriller/crime genre without looking too hard. One can also encounter much that is criminal in 'literature' with commensurate ease. Fact! Don't ever apologise for the books you choose. Simply ENJOY them and you'll pay an author no greater compliment! Happy reading, everyone. . . . Mon tinker, Samphire? I LOVE that. Just perfect. Stealing it. Deb. xxx |
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deborah66 |
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Stolen Time, Sunny Jacobs' story of being on Death Row and how, after 17 years of ing there after a wrong conviction, she wwas released.
Half way through this book and enjoying it, she writes well and her story is harrowing love Debs xxxxxxxxxx
.......' I love people who smile'.......
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RememberGenie |
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Kerry I read that book. It was was a bit lightweight for me!
Temet Nosce
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puppetmode |
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I'm revisitting my childhood. i bought a book called Children Of the Stones by jeremy burnham in a book club at junior school in the 70's. I never read
it all so am doing so now. Its very easy reading obviously but Im enjoying it. just goes to show that my love of science fiction/fantasy was strong even at
that young age.
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deborah66 |
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I never knew this was a book.
If its the same thing as Im thinking of, it was also a BBC kids programme back in the 70s. I got the series on DVD recently and it took me back to the days when I used to hide behind the sofa when the music came on. Ill have to hunt the book out love Debs xxxxxxxxx
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Johnny |
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AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton. J
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Mike Wade |
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Not getting far beyond my BSL text book (British Sign Language) but kind of working my way through Miss Chopsticks by Xinran.
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montichka |
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We have Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac for book group, but I haven't yet found the will to start it. Can anyone offer any motivation?
Monty x It is this that brings us together |
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samphire hoe |
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^sexual favours on completing chapter one.
The Secret Scripture is very depressing. It's a brown brown book.
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a Love like that! -It lights the whole Sky. (Hafiz) |
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deborah66 |
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Lordy Mr Hoe, I just bought The Secret Scriptures, was it not a vair good idea then????
love Debs xxxxxxxxx
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montichka |
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samphire hoe wrote:Well that is encouragement indeed! I fear it may not happen though, I managed fewer than 20 pages this morning before I had to put it back in my bag (before I threw it across a crowded Tube in frustration). Gosh it's dreary. Do you think you could re-write chapter one? Or better still, just delete it and allow me to skip straight to my prize? Monty x It is this that brings us together |
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