[ebooktalk] Re: BRAGG BOOKS
- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:55:17 +0100
I read the first two of Bragg's autobiographical fiction volumes and thought
I could not manage any more.
There is something very self-pitying and depressing about most of his books.
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: BRAGG BOOKS
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>
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>> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:34 PM
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What to read next?
>>
>>
>> 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.
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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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