What are you reading now?

[teamsaint]

Just started Martin Chuzzlewit, part of my free Dickens on Kindle offerings.

I’ll buy you a pint if, without googling, you can tell us who composed the score for the BBC adaptation !! ( Not that you should know , particularly).

[Pulcinella]

I’ll buy you a pint if, without googling, you can tell us who composed the score for the BBC adaptation !! ( Not that you should know , particularly).

No idea.
Don't think I saw it, so I don't even know when it was, to hazard a guess!

[teamsaint]

No idea.
Don't think I saw it https://youtu.be/wB7bv0rIjGY, so I don't even know when it was, to hazard a guess!

It was definitely a tough question.

https://youtu.be/wB7bv0rIjGY

Geoffrey Burgon. Some of his film credits are on the comments. Quite a career. He composed some choral instrumental concert music too, can’t remember if I have ever heard any though.

[DracoM]

William Golding: Close Quarters
Part of his 'Fire Down Below' trilogy.

[Pulcinella]

It was definitely a tough question.

https://youtu.be/wB7bv0rIjGY

Geoffrey Burgon. Some of his film credits are on the comments. Quite a career. He composed some choral instrumental concert music too, can’t remember if I have ever heard any though.

This CD of his music (I've got a copy) will cost you quite a bit more than a pint!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Burgon-Canciones-Bowman-Brett-Hickox/dp/B004JCMVL6

James Bowman/Charles Brett/City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox

[teamsaint]

This CD of his music (I've got a copy) will cost you quite a bit more than a pint!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Burgon-Canciones-Bowman-Brett-Hickox/dp/B004JCMVL6

James Bowman/Charles Brett/City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox

Must be good at that price.
Postage is free at least

I’d get it listed if I were you !
( Discogs has a copy for £15, so don’t order anything fancy for the cellar just yet....)

[Bryn]

Must be good at that price.
Postage is free at least

I’d get it listed if I were you !
( Discogs has a copy for £15, so don’t order anything fancy for the cellar just yet....)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/143367641806?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-153316-527457-8&mkcid=2&itemid=143367641806&targetid=4584619895229426&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=398226952&mkgroupid=1296324443769585&rlsatarget=pla-4584619895229426&abcId=2145997&merchantid=87779&msclkid=b0ab6759033f179d38d9075b1b742892

[french frank]

Having just finished the Čapek short stories (if you want to sample a couple, the first here, also known as 'Footprint' (Šlépěj ), was inspired by David Hume's 'footprint in the sand' philosophising), I'm thinking I might delve next into a double volume containing Thomas More's History of Richard III followed by Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, since I think it was Walpole who first started querying the official narrative in print.

Both works have introductory material by Paul Kendall who wrote a popular (not intended dismissively) biography of Richard III which I have.

[vinteuil]

I'm thinking I might delve next into a double volume containing Thomas More's History of Richard III followed by Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard III, since I think it was Walpole who first started querying the official narrative in print.

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... a work much promoted by r3.org. No connexion with for3.org ?

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[french frank]

... a work much promoted by r3.org. No connexion with for3.org ?

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Had to check - yes, I'm sure they love it: Exhibit A.

[french frank]

Just quickly checking up on Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale in case it proves to have topical resonances.

[Rjw]

Gosh, 5th time! perhaps we should have a thread, 'Novels You Have Read at Least 5 times'! (Struggling to get much beyond Pride and Prejudice, Women in Love, and Little Dorrit,).

But Eco now , I've not read any. Where should one start?

I read A Room with a View every January. I am already looking forward to next January. Forster is such a star!

[vinteuil]

Gosh, 5th time! perhaps we should have a thread, 'Novels You Have Read at Least 5 times'! (Struggling to get much beyond Pride and Prejudice, Women in Love, and Little Dorrit,).

... only one



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[gradus]

... only one



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Congratulations on your longevity.

[Sir Velo]

E F Benson - Thorley Weir The Complete E F Benson (Kindle Edition)

A kind of Edwardian New Grub Street with a dash more humour and less downright misery. Benson manages to weave together strands of apparently disconnected people and incidents through a cleverly constructed plot and counterplot. Granted the romance is tame, but his depiction of the bent impressario Cradock manages the difficult balancing act of evoking both feelings of distaste and a certain sympathy. One of Benson's better non M&L novels IMHO.