Was 'The Passenger' the source of the Antonioni/Jack Nicholson film of the same title? I liked that.
What are you reading now?
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Originally posted by ChandlersFord View PostI think Dombey and Son may indeed be the longest: other contenders are Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit.
I read it many years ago, and can recall enjoying it. However, it isn't all that good and can never compete with the 'biggies'.
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Originally posted by Padraig View Post
I'm reading Middlemarch, as if for the first time.
I started reading on 13 November, and closed the last page on New Year's Eve. And, Yes! It was a most wonderful read. I can say that now with honest conviction, having fooled myself that I had read it before.
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Back in the Day by Melvyn Bragg.
I just love books like this. The book is an autobiographical memoir in which Bragg tells of his early life in Wigton, Cumbria. He has an extraordinary knack of bringing the people he knew to life and tells his story with an intense poetic beauty that has me reaching for Cider with Rosie as a comparison. Late 1940s/early 1950s Cumbria seems just as much of a vanished world as the early 1960s Midlands in which I grew up and I compare my own childhood experiences with his, my own parents to his as I read.
I've just read his description of the girl morris dancers at Wigton Carnival, a wonderfully moving passage, full of innocence and simple pleasure that is writing of the highest quality.
I can't recommend this book highly enough!"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Over Christmas, I re-read The Magic Mountain.
I then read Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes (good).
I went on to Three Plays by Philip Ridley (Pitchfork Disney, Fastest Clock In The Universe, Ghost From A Perfect Place) - a display of increasing brilliance. Why is this man not recognised as britain's greatest living playwright? He's better than Stoppard and Churchill.
Currently: Henry & June by Anias Nino. Hmmm.....not sure I'll stick with this.
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The Life and Adventures of Arminius Vambery, hugely enjoyable, rather like a Hungarian Michael Palin of the Victorian era.
Next to Nature by Ronald Blyth, rural writing at its best.
Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle, Ben Macintyre's terrific account of the POW's held, but not always, in the seemingly impregnable fortress.
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Originally posted by gradus View PostThe Life and Adventures of Arminius Vambery, hugely enjoyable, rather like a Hungarian Michael Palin of the Victorian era.
Next to Nature by Ronald Blyth, rural writing at its best.
Colditz, Prisoners of the Castle, Ben Macintyre's terrific account of the POW's held, but not always, in the seemingly impregnable fortress."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Read the telegraph on Monday, have been dipping into an issue of the new statesman my mother in law got me for Christmas. Have been learning more about Ruskin from the guild of st geoerge tweeting a video of several members reading his writing and searching YouTube for lectures about him.Annoyingly listening to and commenting on radio 3...
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Originally posted by JasonPalmer View PostRead the telegraph on Monday, have been dipping into an issue of the new statesman my mother in law got me for Christmas. Have been learning more about Ruskin from the guild of st geoerge tweeting a video of several members reading his writing and searching YouTube for lectures about him.
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Originally posted by JasonPalmer View PostRead the telegraph on Monday, have been dipping into an issue of the new statesman my mother in law got me for Christmas. Have been learning more about Ruskin from the guild of st geoerge tweeting a video of several members reading his writing and searching YouTube for lectures about him.
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Originally posted by smittims View PostMy listening to 'King Priam' recently drove me to re-read the Iliad. Rather a slog this time , I'm afraid. It's a curious work. Now I've moved on to Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida' which is much more my cup of tea.
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