[ebooktalk] Re: WORLD WAR i and Ben Elton.
- From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:20:26 -0000
Steve I read Two Brothers earlier this year - it was my first Elton, and I
was really impressed. A very moving story.
june
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: WORLD WAR i and Ben Elton.
Shell
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.
Elton seems to have become a more series writer picking more series subjects
as the years have gone by.
Steve
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Subject: [ebooktalk] WORLD WAR i and Ben Elton.
Thanks for the recommendation. I have loved all the Ben Elton books I've
read, especially 2 brothers, which is his most recent.
Shell.
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From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:00 PM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: WORLD WAR i WAS MY DEAR I WANTED TO RECOMMEND A
BOOK
> Hi
>
> 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-----
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> 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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