The Jogger
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A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irvine
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What book are you currently reading?
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Andrew_Culture
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How are you getting on with it?
hoopdriver
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I really like Wodehouse a lot. He wrote an awful lot of books, over 100, and to be honest some of them seem to be made up of scenes cut from other stories or otherwise reused. Adventures of Sally is by no means his best but is still quite entertaining. In my book even so-so Wodehouse is better than many writers are at the top of their game.
Andrew_Culture
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My sediments entirely. The adventures of Sally in particular reads a bit like what today would be called a cut and paste job. Still great though.
Which is your favourite Wodehouse book? I think mine is Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
shouldbeinbed
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Re reading The Silmarillion
Half way through Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham (slow going) & You've gone too far this time sir, by Danny Bent - a teacher in England who, almost on a whim, decided to cycle to a teaching job in India (light chatty style, enjoying it)
Half way through Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham (slow going) & You've gone too far this time sir, by Danny Bent - a teacher in England who, almost on a whim, decided to cycle to a teaching job in India (light chatty style, enjoying it)
Andrew_Culture
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Impressive, I've tried to get further than a few chapters in with The Silmarillion a bunch of times but failed. Now I think of it this was before I found out I needed glasses.
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Hard to pick a favourite, but if I had to I think I'd go, like you, with Uncle Fred in the Springtime or maybe Joy in the Morning. The Luck of the Bodkins is also a treat and has that delightful opening par.
I've got about 35 Wodehouses on my shelves...
Andrew_Culture
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I promise I'm not willy-waving but I think my tally is 62:
Gah, uploading images from iOS sucks without Tapatalk!
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Agree!
hoopdriver
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Wow. I am envious. Your pick of Uncle Fred in the Springtime clearly comes from much experience! Wodehouse was such a superb writer. Great sense of comic timing and his use of the English language was second to none.
The Good Old Days , The Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders. (Klee, Dressen & Riess)
This is not light-hearted xmas reading, it is horrific in every detail. I have questioned my own morality several times and wept. This book is a must read, if for no other reason than it demonstrates how easy it is for people to carry out atrocities and how easy another holocaust could occur.
I'd love to hear from anyone else who has read it.
mick
This is not light-hearted xmas reading, it is horrific in every detail. I have questioned my own morality several times and wept. This book is a must read, if for no other reason than it demonstrates how easy it is for people to carry out atrocities and how easy another holocaust could occur.
I'd love to hear from anyone else who has read it.
mick
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not sure it is just uploading the pictures. Did you really mean sediments?
Cyclist33
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I didn't think from your first sentence that it would be a comic novel, somehow.
Have you read Amis' "Time's Arrow"?
