[ebooktalk] Ben Elton.
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:14:49 -0000
Oh yes, Dead Famous that one was called. It was so funny and the first Elton I
read.
He can certainly turn his hand to serious topics as well as great humour.
Shell.
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From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:31 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: WORLD WAR i and Ben Elton.
> Shell
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> Not read Two Brothers yet but it is on the list. I can't remember the title
> of the one set in Big Brother but I really loved that one.
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> Elton seems to have become a more series writer picking more series subjects
> as the years have gone by.
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> Steve
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> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Shell
> Sent: 29 October 2013 18:50
> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ebooktalk] WORLD WAR i and Ben Elton.
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> Thanks for the recommendation. I have loved all the Ben Elton books I've
> read, especially 2 brothers, which is his most recent.
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> Shell.
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> From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:00 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: WORLD WAR i WAS MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A
> BOOK
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>> Hi
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>> Another WWI book I would recommend is The First Casualty by Ben Elton.
> This
>> is about a police inspector who is imprisoned for being a conscientious
>> Objector but released on condition that he solves a murder. The solution
>> involves him in becoming a war hero purely by accident.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Voldi Gailans
>> Sent: 29 October 2013 11:47
>> To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
>>
>> Hi Shell and all,
>>
>> Shell, I hope you will read Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way before you
>> give up on WW I books:
>>
>> "One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie
>> Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel.
>> Leaving Dublin to
>> fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he
>> finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and
> that
>> festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.
>> Profoundly moving, intimate and epic, A Long Long Way charts and evokes a
>> terrible coming of age, one too often written out of history."
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Voldi
>>
>> At 11:15 29/10/2013, you wrote:
>>>I adored the book too. I found parts of it very difficult to read,
>>>especially the descriptions of the injuries and treatments in the war
>>>hospital. That's not to say I ever thought of putting it down, as it
>>>was completely absorbing. The story and the characters were great and
>>>it also had a wonderful ending. I can't think of anything negative you
>>>could say about it. I said I wouldn't read any more books about the
>>>horrors of the trenches, but I had to read this for my local library
>>>book club. I'm so glad I didn't miss out on it and would add it to your
>>>list Ian.
>>>Shell.
>>>
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>>>From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:47 AM
>>>To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
>>>
>>> > Ian, Thanks for the recommendation. Wally Lamb is a writer who
>>> is starting
>>> > to interest me a lot, and the one you recommend sounds worth trying.
>>> >
>>> > Right, here goes:
>>> > "My Dear, I wanted To Tell You" is mostly set in the first world
>>> war, and is
>>> > concerned primarily with two men, one who is from a working class
>>> background
>>> > and works his way up through the ranks to become a captain, the
>>> other who is
>>> > from an upper class background, and with those close to them.
>>> > Although there is a great deal of description of conditions in the
>>> > battlefields, it is centred on the feelings and emotions of the two
>>> > men and their troops, while also telling of the feelings,
>>> > frustrations and daily lives of those left behind - a wife who
>>> > struggles to cope without guidance from her husband, a girl who
>>> > thought her relationship with her boyfriend
>>> was secure,
>>> > but finds things are not quite as she thought, and a woman who
>>> > throws herself into nursing. The book has some graphic descriptions
>>> > of plastic surgery as it is carried out in the war years, and of the
>>> > patients who undergo the treatment, and one patient's struggle
>>> > afterwards to live a "Normal" life.
>>> >
>>> > That's the best I can do, and I probably haven't done it justice,
>>> > but as everyone on this list is well aware, it is one of my
>>> > favourite books, and was certainly the best thing I read in 2012.
>>> > Trish.
>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>> > From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
>>> > To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:39 AM
>>> > Subject: [ebooktalk] MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A BOOK
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I've not read My Dear and would appreciate recommendations and a
>>> > brief description. It was quite heavily recommended to me on my
>>> > amazon Kindle account, but these are usually considerably off beam.
>>> >
>>> > But I also wanted to recommend something which `i read a couple of
>>> > years ago. The book was I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb.
>>> > It's
>>> kind of in
>>> > the mould of some John Erving titles but very much in a class of its
>> own.
>>> > It concerns the relationship between two brothers and the back story
>>> > of their family=y which is fascinating. It is quite long but very
>>> > well worth the commitment.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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