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Brainaddict said:
I can understand why you'd think it shit, but why evil? :eek:
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because I am led to believe that Mr Faulks is in league with the devil. The pseudo-parallel with the miners strike really got on my tits.
 
The Notebook (again!!!)

From Publishers Weekly
In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper.



im a weeper .....great :rolleyes:

the film is sadder than the book....i would read the book in a day then watch the film that night but im scared i may damage my ducts!!!! :mad: :D
 
MightyAphrodite said:
The Notebook (again!!!)

From Publishers Weekly
In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Allie, programmed by family and the "caste system of the South" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers?be they cynics or romantics. For the latter, this will be a weeper.
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Sorry but that sounds to me like the kind of plot that writes itself - no brainwork required - with a lot of manipulative sentimentality heaped in. I can see absolutely no point in reading stuff like that.

I wish I could bring myself to WRITE stuff like that, for then I would be a rich woman.
 
finished (breathlessly) Toby Litt's excellent Corpsing (with one of the most utterly unsettling sex scenes ever <shudder> ) and now i'm throwing myself excitedly into Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge cos it was a birthday present (and everybody else seems to be reading it too ;) )...

also dipping into a collection of Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn columns, which is cracking :)
 
satan wants me - Robert Irwin

fictional diary of would be hippy black magician in london in the summer '67 - it is not much of a page turner but i am loving the intelligence, the style and often extremely understated humour.
 
Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac, then I have Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson, I wouldn't be surprised if I finished both today, they're both pretty short.
 
tangerinedream said:
Tom Stoppard - The real thing (a play)

It's about some hateful people, but it's clever enough not to be hateful. Quite enjoying it. First thing I've read of his since Rozencrantz and Guidenstein are dead.
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finished this and was a bit disapointed, it didn't really seem to go anywhere - some great bits of dialogue though. I think i could read it again though. I suspect it might be better read, than actually produced, good be a stunning radio play with the right director and cast.
 
tangerinedream said:
finished this and was a bit disapointed, it didn't really seem to go anywhere - some great bits of dialogue though. I think i could read it again though. I suspect it might be better read, than actually produced, good be a stunning radio play with the right director and cast.
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the famous gardener in stoppard's 'arcadia' whch i realy wasn't fond of after reading it for my english degree, constable brown (no, that's wrong, sounds like a detective daytime series on living tv) designed the gardens for my old uni, bath spa...very lovely gardens :)
 
IntoStella said:
Sorry but that sounds to me like the kind of plot that writes itself - no brainwork required - with a lot of manipulative sentimentality heaped in. I can see absolutely no point in reading stuff like that.

I wish I could bring myself to WRITE stuff like that, for then I would be a rich woman.
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i cant help it....im soppy :mad: :D....


and not completely cynical yet....maybe when im more of a cynic i'll read war and peace everyday!! :p
 
Dubversion said:
and now i'm throwing myself excitedly into Not Fade Away by Jim Dodge cos it was a birthday present (and everybody else seems to be reading it too ;) )...
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Finished it last night. I liked it very much on the whole, and the San Fran bits best of all I think. It cruises in places, but the writing's stays sharp most of the time. Great dialogue.

Everyone does seem to be reading it at the moment. Is there a film coming out? ;)

Now I'm onto Last Exit To Brooklyn, one of those I never got round to when everyone else did.
 
trolleybuses in north west london by the london trolleybus preservation society. not so much reading it as looking at my bookshelf and wondering what it's doing there.
 
Duncton Wood by William Horwood.

Lent to me by my housemate as I'd run out of "non-serious" things to read. About moles. I wasn't expecting much, but it's actually quite diverting and enjoyable. There are five more books, too. :eek: :)
 
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