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Lord of the flies....now that takes me back.
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Last one , then i have to take the car to be MOT'd!
(Am supposed to have been working on my own writing but have been side-tracked and am in need of inspiration or a kick up...)! "The woman walked round the corner of the house and saw a snake consuming a large Tuscan toad. The victim was motionless, looking about it only slightly puzzled, blinking, whilst the snake attacked it's leg. The toad had the apearence of a fat busineesman being done some sexual service by a hard-faced girl on the make and doing his best not to notice. The snake, with it's sleek, shiny head and curled body, was long and smartly patterned in grey and black." John Mortimer: Summer's Lease (from 1988) (And summer's lease hath all too short a date Sonnet XVIII, Shakespeare is the epigraph) |
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A lot of teachers kill Shakespeare but we were lucky to have a Mrs Bradshaw who was a fantastic teacher and brought it alive. ::) |
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I can't stand Dickens, not fond of Jane Austen, Bronte sisters leave me cold...in fact all of the traditional writers I find hard to read....I think I must be a philistine.
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During the 1970s and 80s I read nothing but the classics. During that period I think I must have bought everything published by Penguin English Library and Penguin Classics. For space reasons, and because the room they were kept in smelled like a musty old book shop, I have now given most away to charity; however, I have kept my Dickens books.
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I've got lots of unread books on my shelves, filed in with the ones I have read (I never get rid of books!). I've turned them upside down so I know where they are. One day I might get round to reading Chaucer, Malory etc etc. Trouble is I keep buying new books - well not new, usually secondhand, but you know what I mean... |
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I liked Henry Fielding's Tom Jones........and Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote.........so I don't quite know why I can't get into these other classics.
I hate parting with books too......although I have given quite a few away(most of my text books have now been passed on). |
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A feir feld full of folk fond I ther bitwene, Of alle maner of men, the mene and the riche, Worchinge and wandringe, as the world asketh. |
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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 :D) |
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