[ebooktalk] Re: BOOKS OF MY LIFE
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:15:43 +0100
I failed to understand the television adaptation of gormengast that was
broadcast a year or so ago. My failure to understand was so complete that it
has put me off attempting the book.
Steve
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Hi Steve, the tolkien adaptation you heard in 69 was in fact The Hobbit with
Paul Daneman in the role of blbo Baggins. The dramatisation of LOTR was
first broadcast in, I think, 1981. That had Ian Holme as Frodo, Michael
Horden as Gandalf Bill Nighy as Sam and John le Mesurier as Bilbo. I've
never been able to get away with Terry Pratchett either in books or as
dramas. Which brings me to another question. What's the view on Mervin
Peak?
On 30 Jun 2013, at 09:55, Steven Bingham wrote:
> Hurray someone else who doesn't like Lord of the Rings. I tried
> listening to the radio series back in 1969 and hated it. Under
> considerable pressure I tried to read it a few years ago and gave us.
> I don't know if it is the fantasy or whether it is that I feel the
> whole thing is just a pointless exercise.
>
> I am not keen on Terry Pratchett either but there I think it is
> something to do with there being no rules. If there are no rules
> anything can happen and there doesn't have to be a reason for it. I
> gave up all attempts at reading him after the story I was reading
> suddenly materialised in the middle of a present day aircraft. Pointless!
>
> Harry Potter I can deal with because although there is magic it does
> conform to its own rules. I like the way that the magic is played down
> and the normal is slightly exaggerated.
>
> I am also trying to come up with the books of my life but it is not easy.
>
> Steve
>
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> Hi Everyone
>
> I cannot get on with "Lord of the Rings" at all. Peter reread it
> recently and I heard bits and still did not like it. There is too much
> fantassy for me.
>
> One of the things I like about Harry Potter is that there is enough
> normal things, such as having to do homework and difficulties with
> being teenagers, to keep me interested.
>
> Pele
>
>
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