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Category Archives: Classics Club Challenge
“War & Peace” by Leo Tolstoy (1869) – whatever am I going to do with myself now?
All good things, so so sadly, must come to an eventual end. It’s been a roller coaster of a ride trying to gallop alongside the heinously cropped 6-hour adaptation of this epic novel, and I almost came out of the saddle … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books on the Big Screen, Classics Club Challenge
Tagged Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“Lady Chatterley’s lover” by D.H. Lawrence (1928) – taking the John Thomas, sorry, the mickey – and welcome to “Whoar”, oops “War & Peace”
Back in the autumn, the BBC revisited Lady Chatterley and strapping Oliver Mellors, and after watching the rose-tinted version with a certain sense of bafflement, was tickled to pick up the battered (complete and unexpurgated) copy on the shelf and … Continue reading
Classics Club Challenge – taking a gamble
This is rather like Russian roulette with none of the blood and guts. While for some all this avid list-compiling would no doubt be like having teeth pulled, it is of course totally up my persnickety compulsive alley. Having embarked upon … Continue reading
“Cider with Rosie” by Laurie Lee (1959) – poetry in motion
Nothing whatsoever to do with “Under Milk Wood”, in fact couldn’t be a more innocent portrayal of youth in many ways – and there’s nothing even remotely as flamboyant about this man’s somewhat idyllic childhood in a remote village set in a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Classics Club Challenge, Non-fiction
Tagged Cider with Rosie, Classics Club, Laurie Lee
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“Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome (1889) – messing about on the river
The subtitle of this witty ditty is “To Say Nothing of the Dog” – and who’d have thought that prime suspect Montgomery the fox terrier with attitude was the only character of the batch to be a figment of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics Club, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
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“The Go-Between” by L. P. Hartley (1953) – between the devil and the deep blue
The BBC has a lot to answer for. All those carefully and lovingly prepared piles of books to be read in a certain order keep getting re-arranged, as not a week seems to go by without another new adaptation of … Continue reading
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Tagged L.P. Hartley, Rebecca, The Go-Between
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“The Classics Club” Five Year Challenge – taking the bull by the horns
It’s altogether too tempting to be led off the straight and narrow by all these exciting new novels that just keep appearing and calling for attention. In the meanwhile, am embarrassed to tot up the countless tomes that have gone down in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Classics Club, George Eliot, L.P. Hartley, Middlemarch, The Go-Between
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“Middlemarch” by George Eliot (1871) – joining the mile high club…
Deep rapture, euphoria, beatitude and other superlatives. Veneration, wonderment and general doffing of caps. Have finally joined the several mile high crowd of fan club of all things Mary Ann Evans, and what’s even better is that there is still … Continue reading