[ebooktalk] Re: BRAGG BOOKS
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:22:54 +0100
June, I too enjoyed the first one which I read on TB with Stephen Thorne as the
reader (I refuse to use the term Narrator who is the person in the book who
tells the story). I also enjoyed number 2 though it's name escapes me. 3
struck a bit of a chord as it concerned a young man being removed from his
culture and having to embrace another very different one which chimes in with
many of our lives I think. But 4 was a load of self-pitying drivel. He is
also one of those people who believes he has a god-given right to airtime on
radio and TV which no one does.
On 11 Jun 2013, at 21:06, Tar Barrels wrote:
> I've only read the first part of the series, and must confess I enjoyed it,
> though it felt a bit heart on the sleeve-ish. However, he's considered a
> saint up here, where he gives a lot of money but also time and support for
> Wigton, and his street cred is high given the care he gave his parents,
> particularly his mother who died just recently. So, as an author I think
> he's okayish, as a broadcaster I wish he'd blow his darned nose, but as an
> ordinary guy, he seems ok to me.
> June
>
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> 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.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
>> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What to read next?
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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:
>>
>>> 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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>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:07 PM
>>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What to read next?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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