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  • Anna

    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    well, of course not. Jaggers has to be our very own Caliban, n'est-ce pas?
    Oh, I'm so glad you said that - I thought it but didn't have the nerve to say so!!

    Edit: Ams, surely that pic is Caliban to a T, complete with hat!!

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26520

      Originally posted by Anna View Post

      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
      well, of course not. Jaggers has to be our very own Caliban, n'est-ce pas?
      Oh, I'm so glad you said that - I thought it but didn't have the nerve to say so!!

      Edit: Ams, surely that pic is Caliban to a T, complete with hat!!
      haha sadly Anna neither the hat nor the 'tache correspond to the reality. If anything, the mountainous form of Mr Coltrane is closer to the truth though I gather he is a mere 6' 1"....
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • Nick Armstrong
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 26520

        Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

        Me, in my younger days I always hoped I might be Dr Casaubon. Sadly I now realise I will only ever be Mr Brooke...

        Oh vindetable, surely not!!
        "...the isle is full of noises,
        Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
        Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
        Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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        • amateur51

          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          haha sadly Anna neither the hat nor the 'tache correspond to the reality. If anything, the mountainous form of Mr Coltrane is closer to the truth though I gather he is a mere 6' 1"....
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqmCRh8NwE

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          • Nick Armstrong
            Host
            • Nov 2010
            • 26520

            Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
            The 'Cracker' connection is arguably a trifle tenuous but the gags made me chuckle
            "...the isle is full of noises,
            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post
              The 'Cracker' connection is arguably a trifle tenuous but the gags made me chuckle
              Tenuous? Tenuous??? Don't you use your lawyerly wiles with me, Sir!

              Pick the tenuous out of this...

              Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.


              Robbie Coltrane IS Cracker!

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              • Anna

                Just to continue the Dickens theme, good news! Over Christmas on BBC1 a new 3 part adaptation of Great Expectations. Ray Winstone plays the Magwitch and David Suchet is Jaggers. Gillian Anderson is Miss Havisham (she was brilliant as Lady Dedlock in Bleak House I thought) Douglas Booth is Pip (I wonder if he's a bit too pretty to be Pip?) Anyway, certainly something to look forward to. Cannot as yet find who is cast as Estella.

                Edit: And we are to have Edwin Drood in the New Year, with Freddie Fox,
                Last edited by Guest; 22-11-11, 17:36.

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                • DracoM
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                  • Mar 2007
                  • 12957

                  Belinda Bauer/ Darkside.
                  Complex, page turner, fast moving policier in more senses than one with an incredible ending. Set on Exmoor and environs in winter. Top read.

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                  • amateur51

                    Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                    Belinda Bauer/ Darkside.
                    Complex, page turner, fast moving policier in more senses than one with an incredible ending. Set on Exmoor and environs in winter. Top read.
                    Thanks for the tip DracoM - I enjoyed her first novel Blacklands - it has moments of improbability but the tremendous tension and momentum that she builds up carries you through - well, it did for me

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                    • tony yyy

                      I've finally finished Book 9 of Herodotus. Book 8 next, perhaps.

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                      • Don Basilio
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 320

                        I've just finished Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as the Flower.

                        I was unfamiliar with Miss Broughton's writings until recommended by Mr Grew elsewhere.

                        Considerably more tart in taste than Trollope or Charlotte M Younge. I will pick up anything else by Miss B if I see it in a second hand shop.

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                        • amateur51

                          I heard one episode of Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi read by Derek Jacobi on Book At Bedtime (I think) and knew that I had to read it to find out what happens.

                          A quirky (it features a protagonist whose answer to every disturbance in his life is to eat an omelette aux fines herbes ) relatively short novel translated from Italian into English with some skill and with some memorable characters, it leaves you wanting to know what happened next.

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                          • aka Calum Da Jazbo
                            Late member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 9173

                            just finished Debt The First 5000 years by David Graeber ... an indispensable original work ... it has to be read and understood before one can even begin to approach what the hell is going on ...

                            here is an interview with Graeber
                            According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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                            • old khayyam

                              'Lifting The Veil' by Piers Dudgeon.

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                              • Sparafucile

                                Just started Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, by Peter Hoeg.

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