tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post8536922442783071869..comments2024-02-15T17:04:14.226+01:00Comments on Jane Is The One: Huckleberry Finnjanestheonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-60130747749822669662011-02-06T09:41:40.215+01:002011-02-06T09:41:40.215+01:00Er - No and double No.
Add to list of Trollope, ...Er - No and double No. <br /><br />Add to list of Trollope, Wodehouse and Grisham. Oh - and pop in Robert Harris, Dan Brown and Frederick Forsyth along with these dead heads - and Ken Follett.<br /><br />Airport cardboard one and all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-56383497416603334772011-02-06T05:03:25.247+01:002011-02-06T05:03:25.247+01:00Kipling forever!Kipling forever!Mr. Mcgranorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12851136550476241757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-87206618993919738142011-02-05T16:54:37.750+01:002011-02-05T16:54:37.750+01:00Read Women in Love.
By the by - if you are going ...Read Women in Love.<br /><br />By the by - if you are going to read any DHL poems, the best one is Shadows.<br /> <br />I always feel upset and freshly shocked by the phrase 'the leavings of a life'.<br /><br />It is so much better than the Dylan T - Rage, Rage, Against the Dying of the Light poem - so frequently trudged out at cremations - although I may be feeling a bit jaundiced. I am , at the moment, reading a biog of Dylan Thomas and I just hate the man. I hate him, period!! He is such a bloody Salter as far as women are concerned. <br /><br />I am going to follow it up with Aeronwy's memoir, My Father's Places, to see if I can feel a bit better about him. Maybe not possible.<br /><br />Incidentally - did anyone know that Caitlin had had an a affair with the old and randy Augustus John? Who virtually pimped her for Dylan Thomas?<br /> Well, I didn't!!<br /><br />Apropos of books, the fab Peter Stothard has a book out - Spartacus - his love of all things classical. I will get it - my idea of a Times editor, really!!<br />Hey, Jane - why not do one of your reviews? I understand that said Times Ed used to be a Griffiths constituent?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-80241810397761744492011-02-05T16:22:04.184+01:002011-02-05T16:22:04.184+01:00I've always thought that Henry James is the mo...I've always thought that Henry James is the most overrated writer in the English language.<br />Lawrence is strange for me - I re-read The Rainbow, Women in Love and Sons and Lovers every few years, and seem to alternate between hating them and appreciating them. Have always thought his poetry was crap, mind.<br />John Grisham is pretty good, I've always thought, but not particularly to my taste.<br />I must read Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer again, I think. It must be 30 years.<br />PS. Am I the only person thinking Wandering Sage might be David Hoopes? Published by the Google "0 results" ZY Press?Jonnynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-59395220851518160662011-02-05T12:38:19.240+01:002011-02-05T12:38:19.240+01:00A Uni student of Eng Lit recently asked me if I ha...A Uni student of Eng Lit recently asked me if I had read Sons and Lovers - it is a study book on the course last month in preparation for a seminar next week. Said I had read it part way and couldn't stand it any longer, but had read The Rainbow and found that much better but its characters are two-dimensional: lacking any drive to take charge - perhaps DHL's own personality was equally adrift. Then another person in the conversation recommended his poems - with now two recommendations, must read them.<br />I rather like Hardy's books, and the TV adaptations also. Not the same for Zhivago, though: the film didn't capture the awful reality of the book but instead gave us wonderful pictures of a big countryside - and Pasternak's poems are exquisite.dreamingspirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00324207120279777521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-18828176887776594022011-02-05T12:12:26.687+01:002011-02-05T12:12:26.687+01:00Opinions and attitudes move on, thank goodness. ...Opinions and attitudes move on, thank goodness. Any views on Kipling?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-38687820202830641872011-02-05T11:02:30.033+01:002011-02-05T11:02:30.033+01:00Oh how ridiculous, Anon! He was a great novelist. ...Oh how ridiculous, Anon! He was a great novelist. You probably can't understand him.<br /><br />I expect you just adore Trollope and PG Wodehouse, do you? With a lashing of John Grisham?!!<br /><br />Whenever people want to patronise a writer they don't understand, they say 'He was a rather good poet'. That is what such people say about Thomas Hardy also - because they can't cope with the novels.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-22589823896279649712011-02-05T03:14:02.918+01:002011-02-05T03:14:02.918+01:00The censorship is the effects of political correct...The censorship is the effects of political correctness and hate speech ideology. If the majority would of resisted this academic-media policy and Government legislation -- then not just a fringe would be opposed.Mr. Mcgranorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12851136550476241757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-5602829470386151292011-02-04T16:54:43.193+01:002011-02-04T16:54:43.193+01:00yes, why not?yes, why not?janestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-22707830211574341882011-02-04T16:12:24.138+01:002011-02-04T16:12:24.138+01:00ZY Press has recently published Trials of Hucklebe...ZY Press has recently published Trials of Huckleberry Finn by David Hoopes as an eBook.<br /><br />This sequel to the Mark Twain classic asks the question; What would have happened if Huckleberry Finn and Samuel Langhorne Clemens had grown up together in Hannibal, Missouri, in the 1850's? The Trials of Huckleberry Finn tells that story and follows their relationship through Sam's years on the Mississippi. Mr. Hoopes uses typical Huckleberry Finn narrative style to make this book an enjoyable and exciting read for any fan of Mark Twain.<br /><br />Woudl you be interested in seeing a review copy of the book?Wandering Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00729499527315177304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-46367860766275141192011-02-04T15:35:08.509+01:002011-02-04T15:35:08.509+01:00DH Lawrence is not a racist. Unfortunately, he was...DH Lawrence is not a racist. Unfortunately, he was one of the worst, self-indulgent, most over-hyped novelists in the English language.<br /><br />He was rather a good poet, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-3710233743405074862011-02-04T12:06:08.638+01:002011-02-04T12:06:08.638+01:00Of course it is a wonderful book ( so is Pudden He...Of course it is a wonderful book ( so is Pudden Head Wilson, by the way).<br /><br />If people don't understand something, it is very easy to feel warm in one's ignorance by sheltering in the blanket of a slogan such as 'racist'.<br /><br />Hence, those who don't understand his work call DH Lawrence a 'racist' as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-4430929505786718362011-02-04T11:14:01.120+01:002011-02-04T11:14:01.120+01:00thanks Gus, corrected the typo
anon 0151: in fact...thanks Gus, corrected the typo<br /><br />anon 0151: in fact there is a long outburst by Jim, who does not accept that human beings do not all speak the same language (the king claims to speak French, and Tom explains to Jim what the French language is) - Jim says a cat does not talk like a cow because a cat is not a cow, but he and a Frenchman are both men, so they should talk the same.janestheonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17617250693471034197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-44980650711494636882011-02-04T01:51:39.472+01:002011-02-04T01:51:39.472+01:00When I read it at school 50 years ago, I felt it w...When I read it at school 50 years ago, I felt it was racist because he implied that the difference between white and black people was the same as between cats and dogs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2932765464128103640.post-67692347252984786082011-02-03T21:23:39.288+01:002011-02-03T21:23:39.288+01:00I presume that's a typo in the sixth sentence?...I presume that's a typo in the sixth sentence? " in England before the *US*", rather than the UK?<br /><br />The new edition got quite a bit of coverage in the UK press. Thanks for the observation about the contradiction of being made to call the freed Jim a "slave"; I hadn't considered that.Augustus Carpnoreply@blogger.com