The Marlows and their maker
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Just seen that GGB have published this.
Has anyone read it?
Tamsin
(apologies if someone has posted about this previously!)
Has anyone read it?
Tamsin
(apologies if someone has posted about this previously!)
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Date: 2007-08-30 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-30 09:28 pm (UTC)Promethea
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Date: 2007-08-30 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 08:54 pm (UTC)I can understand how Promethea feels: for me, AF is - as someone else once said - "all aestheticism", though I can understand how proper Shire Tories feel, because the "arrivistes" did to them what the Blairites did to proper social democrats like me (and to proper socialists, which I'm not in the purest sense but can sympathise with).
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Date: 2007-08-30 09:39 pm (UTC)I wonder if you would mind editing so that Amazon's very long URL is behind a cut tag? It's doing odd things to my friends page. Thanks!
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Date: 2007-08-31 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-08-30 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-02 09:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 07:54 am (UTC)As
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Date: 2007-08-31 10:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 09:57 am (UTC)All the same, I'm glad I bought it!
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Date: 2007-08-31 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-02 09:09 am (UTC)And I hope that when Sue Sims writes her AF biography, she will tell us exactly why AF and Tim Kennemore fell out ...
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Date: 2007-08-31 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-31 03:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-08 11:46 am (UTC)Anyway, it also made me go and re-read Forester48's story (I wish she'd write another one to follow it!) and girlyswots one, too (which thankfully doesn't leave one hanging!).
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Date: 2007-09-11 10:16 am (UTC)I do like the look of this book, though - particularly its attractive spine! GGB spines are not always attractive.
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Date: 2007-09-11 10:58 am (UTC)Isn't there mention about a cousin of Patrick's somewhere in one fo the books, off to Northern Ireland in the army? Maybe Ginty goes off to Ireland to work in the stables and then ends up meeting and The Cousin (or something stereotypical like that), nicely leaving Patrick unencumbered for Nicola.
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Date: 2007-09-11 03:11 pm (UTC)I finally finished this. It was fun to re-live the atmosphere of the books but there wasn't much insight or analysis, a lot of it was just summary of their plots, characters etc. That's understandable as it was originally written just as a more or less private project, but I think there's still room for a really thorough book on the Marlows. Mind you it's hard to get the balance right: I'm now reading a book of essays on Diana Wynne-Jones and it's turgid, pretentious overly-academic flannel, most of them don't have anything really to say.
Promethea
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Date: 2007-09-20 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-24 12:47 pm (UTC)I wasn't crazy about the cover of the GGB edition, although I "got" all the references, but I'm so thrilled to have it as a Proper Book for dipping in to at my leisure and convenience, that I gloss over the cover!
I too am looking forward to Sue Sims' biography, and no, GGB didn't edit out biographical stuff in TMATM, what I remember being there is still there.
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Date: 2007-11-02 12:51 am (UTC)