[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 11:01:34 +0100
Ooh, Sandra, that's a difficult one. Although knowing your liking for military
fiction, there are some great set piece battle scenes which for me work better
in the book than in the radio version. there's too much of that kind of "Oh,
look, his spear's gone straight through that orc". Yes, on reflection,
definitely the book.
On 28 Jun 2013, at 19:36, Shell wrote:
> Definitely pick up the book.
> I've listened to the radio drama and it is good, but a lot of the magic of
> the book is lost.
> I have to say I didn't enjoy my last reading of the book as I did when I read
> it a few times in my teens and early twenties. I don't think I'll be reading
> it again.
> Shell.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Sandra" <oceania97@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:39 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
>
> > You're all talking about the good readers here, but how about the bad ones?
> > Peter Gray immediately springs to mind. I've missed out on books because
> > Peter Gray was the reader. How that man was ever asked to read books I
> > don't know.
> > As for books of my life? Well that's difficult. Will try and pick out
> > half a dozen, although I doubt they'll be the literary classics some of you
> > have listed.
> > I had Lord of the Rings read to me at my primary school in Liverpool by a
> > teacher who should have been an actor. I've never picked it up since then.
> > I do have the BBC dramatization, though. So what do you think, Ian?
> > Should I do the drama or pick up the book.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Sandra.
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