[ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:32:16 +0100
Ah great continuity errors of our time. there must be an online list
somewhere.
On 11 Jun 2013, at 17:40, Steven Bingham wrote:
> I thought it was a Rolex watch that appeared in the chariot race.
>
> I know that in one of the James Bond movie a car goes into a narrow alley way
> on two wheels and in the next shot it is on the opposite two wheels.
>
> Steve
>
> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
> Sent: 11 June 2013 11:35
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
>
> Hi elaine, for me it doesn't matter whether the language reflects the reality
> of such a person. This, as you suggest, is fiction after all. I'm sure the
> Saxons and Danes in Bernard cornwell's series set at the time of Alfred
> didn't speak in the way, meaning I suppose the idiom that his characters do.
> for me it's about whether they are true to the story and to the overall
> intention of the author. That phrase from the Bradford family's cook about
> knowing the heft of every knife just jarred with me. It's like the fact that
> people have spotted that there's a red car in one of the backgrounds of the
> great chariot race from the movie of Ben Her.
> On 10 Jun 2013, at 23:56, Elaine Harris (Rivendell) wrote:
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>
> Ah, yes, I see what you mean.
>
> I don’t recall her bring particularly articulate but you could well be right.
> In fact, you have raised a most interesting question there. It has often
> occurred to me in the past that some characters express themselves more
> clearly and/or in better language than might their real life counterparts; it
> used to annoy me but no longer does. Not sure why. Perhaps an acceptance of
> artistic licence and a fear of inverted snobbier: as in, who am I to judge
> how well or badly someone may express themselves. It has occurred to me
> often, though, throughout my many years of reading.
> Thank you for prompting me to think about it again.
>
> Elaine
>
> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 6:21 AM
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
>
> Hi elanie, I'm sure I'll go back to the book, but the cook in question was
> the one who was fired when the big cheese family fled the village.
> On 10 Jun 2013, at 19:38, Elaine Harris (Rivendell) wrote:
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> Ian, I can understand your doubts with Geraldine brooks’ Anna but since the
> narrator – by the end of the book and the perspective from which she is
> telling the story – is no mere seventeenth-century cook. Her education grows
> along with the book.
>
> For the record, Geraldine Brooks is Australian, started out as a reporter and
> her first book was non-fiction on Moslem women, married to Anthony (Tony)
> Horrowitz; not sure if he is English but is well-known for his children’s
> fiction (which I have not read) and they live in America though I think spend
> a fair amount of time in the UK.
>
> I loved the language; to me that was part of the thrill of the book; many of
> the words I think you would find only in a mediaeval dictionary.
>
> However, only you can know if a book is for you.
>
> Take care,
>
> Elaine
>
>
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> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ian Macrae
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2013 3:25 AM
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
>
> Anyone care to outline what kind of fiction she writes? I must confess to be
> still struggling rather with Geraldine Brooks. Part of it is language. I
> don't believe any cook in the 17th century would ever have said, :I now the
> heft of every knife in this kitchen". It's a bit like those female American
> writers of historical fiction who think they create the language of the 15th
> century by inserting the word "Do" before every active verb.
> On 10 Jun 2013, at 17:54, Shell wrote:
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> I think you might enjoy Sister David, though you do have to be on top of
> things at the end as Steve says. I think it's much more up your street
> though.
> Shell.
>
>
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> From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 3:58 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
>
> > I read "Afterwards" and really struggled with it for many reasons. It would
> > take a good deal of persuasion for me to try reading Lupton again.
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Clare Gailans
> > Sent: 10 June 2013 12:03
> > To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Rosamund Lupton.
> >
> > Trish, I have Sister and will try it now as you say it is so much better. I
> > thought all the out-of-body business in Afterwrds spoilt what was otherwise
> > a good book. Clare
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