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I didn't know of the film, I must look out for it.
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The world according to John Irving. Times are tougher for young writers. But the book isn’t going away. You can watch the
full interview with Irving here. |
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Bernard Cornwell ~ Sharpe's Tiger
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Bernard Cornwell ~ Sharpe's Tiger
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Bernard Cornwell ~ Sharpe's Triumph
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Having rather avoided it, thinking it was just pop fiction, I am finally reading Kate Mosse's Labyrinth and finding that it is a good yarn. Not the highest level of literature but well thought out and, if it pandered a little to popular taste, one has to make a living and so I can't knock that and as it made enough to enable her to buy a house in Carcasonne then I can only envy her.
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"Sharpe's Fortress" will be next - number three in the series, which I am determined to read in chronological order, whatever happens with the Pharaoh and "Spike" Milligan.
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Hypernova
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"Guadalcanal" by Richard Tregaskis. First edition 1943.
----------------------------------------It is a collector item (I bought recently) as it is in it's original perfect shape (you can find worn out copies) for a book published 67 years ago. It was for me an additional element of a puzzle I am slowly reconstructing over these last seven years on the events that happened in 1942-43 on and around Guadalcanal. For me Guadalcanal is a very special event of WWII and in history. Guadalcanal is an air, sea, land, battle in which one can find all the elements, cultural, tactical, political, strategic, human, you name it, that does illustrate the clashes of two civilizations with different conception of the world and society.  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Hypernova at Mar 4, 2010 10:21:02 PM] |
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Well done (so far) Hypernova. I hope your researches prove fruitful.
----------------------------------------btw- I wonder if anybody can explain why an apostrophe in the thread title is sometimes given the form of two non-keyboard characters? It has happened in this thread to postings by Hypernova, Ivan, Tommunich, JP, "Quick reply to the post" and me. [Edit 3 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 1, 2010 9:04:43 PM] |
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