It's one of the Dickens novels I like, and of course it has a high reputation amongst 19th-century English literature. I'm afarid I'm not likely to read the other book you mention as I don't care for books deliberately based on other books, except perhaps for Thackeray's 'Rebecca and Rowena' a delightful spoof of 'Ivanhoe'.
What are you reading now?
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Just finishing Lessons by Ian McEwan, which I think deserves the high praise given to it by most of the reviewers. But don't look to it for light relief; it's a long, serious, read! Might be his Dombey & Son. (There is a strong "classical music" thread to the book, the "Lessons" referring (wryly) to piano lessons...)
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostEspecially if it's as long as the opera.
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'Putting the Record Straight' by John Culshaw.
I bought this when it first came out in 1981 and re-read it every few years,, though it's a long time since I last picked it from the shelf.
Once finished, I'll be tackling 'Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962' by Max Hastings."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View Post'Putting the Record Straight' by John Culshaw.
I bought this when it first came out in 1981 and re-read it every few years,, though it's a long time since I last picked it from the shelf.
Once finished, I'll be tackling 'Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962' by Max Hastings.
As always with Culshaw, though, I’m left intrigued by the elusive personality of the writer who had a genius for revealing nothing important about himself.
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I finished J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World last night. As usual it was wonderfully written, though I have to say, when the character Strangman is introduced I was beginning to have my doubts about the overall structure of the work but the final chapter, I felt, satisfactorily tied together the various threads in a nice & quite moving way. Ballard is an author I feel quite close to, what with his surrealism and willingness to contemplate the loss of what many people take for granted. I recently bought both the first volume of his collected short stories and Concrete Island, but rather now I am going to read Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything, which I am looking forward to.
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