Originally posted by ardcarp
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What are you reading now?
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It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostI found a lovely copy of John Culshaw's 'Putting the Record Straight' in Oxfam, Ulverstone today. Fascinating reading.
He sticks the boot into a lot of people in PTRS who only get the soft soap treatment in Ring Resounding.
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Bookshops!
Originally posted by LMcD View Post£12 (RRP £25) with next-day delivery if you're signed up to Amazon Prime. Not that I'm trying to tempt you...
I'm in the process of being well and truly gob-smacked at the extraordinary goings-on that preceded the German attack on Crete....
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Bookshops are the glory of our civilisation
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Originally posted by Bella Kemp View PostNooo! Go to a bookshop. Amazon are able to discount because they have few overheads and pay their workers a pittance. Bookshops are the glory of our civilisation and once gone will never return. And besides is there any greater joy than browsing in a bookshop and coming upon unexpected delights?It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by french frank View PostI would never buy a brand new book from Amazon, whatever the delivery advantages.
But as a vast secondhand bookshop which just might, if you're lucky, have something you're looking for, it is (sadly for all its faults) unrivalled.
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Vasliy Grossman Life and Fate, sometimes billed as the greatest(*) C20 Russian novel, comparable with War and Peace in its treatment of the Russian WW2 from Stalingrad onwards and including the exterminations of Jews and the gulags. A hundred-odd pages in I'm not arguing.
It's a big read, 850+ pages and here, as with W&P, I do have difficulty remembering all the shed-loads of Russian personal names. Fortunately there is a character list, which I'd have been very annoyed by if I'd struggled through from p.1 to the end, then found it at the back. Why not put it at the front for Pete's sake??:grr;
[Mrs LMP would have been more assured of finding it: she usually looks at the end of a novel before deciding to read it!]
(*) So great that Khrushchev told the author on its completion in 1960 that no one would read it for at least a few centuries because he was going to suppress it! Fortunately, a couple of MS copies weren't tracked down.I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!
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