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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I was born into the twentieth century...and I do like books set in the times of the tudors(maybe I lived back then and have been reincarnated).......and Tom Jones isn't set in the twenty first century.......I suppose it is set in the times that some of the traditional classics were set.(maybe I have got the wrong angle on what you are trying to point out to me)
Funnily enough, though I am not overkeen on dramatisations of books...I thought the film of Tom Jones(with Albert Finney and Sussanah Yorke)lived up to my own imaginings of the characters......Squire Allworthy was spot on for me too. It could have had something to do with the fact that I had a soft spot for Albert Finney(it was my bed  ) |
I don't think it is important where the story is set ... books, "Dark Fire" (2004) for example, can be set in one time and written today ... or, at least yesterday. "Tom Jones", written and set in the eighteenth century seems, for some reason (suggestions welcome
) to transcend its age ... timeless. Things in it, resonate with us today. Or maybe it's just a rollicking good story. There are lots of books like that ... I think they call them "classics" ... you get the same thing with music ... listen to any classic rock station and you will hear Eagles, CCR, Three Dog Night, Elvis, Beatles, ... but not too much Bay City Rollers.
But this is getting away from the topic. So here is an opening line: "Jeremiah was a bullfrog"