[ebooktalk] BRAGG BOOKS
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:53:24 +0100
There's a whole ongoing series of books based on his life Trish. the first is
called The soldiers Return which deals with his childhood in Wigton and his
father coming back from the war. Then there's one about his adolescence and
another about his time at Oxford: come to think of it, that one's pretty
irritating too. and then remember me which is to do with his first marriage
which ended with the suicide of his wife. THat one is partly also about his
early years at the BBc and there is what felt like hours of him moaning about
the fact that they lived in Kew where he was almost driven mad by the noise of
the aircraft going into Heath row. Living on the same flight path I found
myself saying bloody get over yourself.
On 11 Jun 2013, at 20:22, Trish Talbot wrote:
> I don't know that book, Ian.
> Trish.
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> there is something irritating Trish about the educated middle classes
> obsessing about themselves. Is Remember Me the fourth book in Melvin Bragg's
> autobiographical sequence? Another case in point.
> On 11 Jun 2013, at 17:28, Trish Talbot wrote:
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>> I would agree that it is very much of its time, Ian. I struggled with it,
>> didn't find it enjoyable, and didn't finish it. I found it too full of
>> hysterica.
>> Trish.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
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>> I read it a while back on TB Dave. It's an odd thing. Its structured in a
>> slightly odd way and parts of the story come from the contents of three
>> notebooks, the black, the blue and the golden one. The black relates to
>> time the narrator spent in Africa, the blue to her contemporary life in
>> somewhat bohemian London and the golden one has more arty, esoteric and
>> philosophical jottings. It is also quite of its time and feels like
>> something which was written in the mid 60s. However, I finished it so I
>> can't have found it as tough as memory makes it seem. I'd be very
>> interested in your reaction to it and views on it.
>> On 11 Jun 2013, at 15:12, David Russell wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I feel like a change from my usual literary diet of murder and mayhem. I
>>> have a list of books for such occasions, books I have wanted to read for
>>> ages and just not done so. I just picked a book at random and it turns out
>>> to be Doris Lesssing's "Golden notebook". I do not know why it is on my
>>> list, although I have heard it is worth reading.
>>>
>>> Has anyone read it and if so do you have any comments, either positive or
>>> otherwise. Not sure I have read Lessing before, so it should be
>>> interesting.
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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