marinermick
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I think I have read 1984 at least thirty times.
Papillion is my personal favourite.
Papillion is my personal favourite.
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marinermick
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curious said:
I am a prolific reader but love to read my favorites (papillion, 1984, catch-22, animal farm, of mice and men, the great gatsby) over and over again.
The more you read the more you get out of them.
dibo
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Felt incredibly icky when I first read 1984. Was working in politics and some of what all sides do to the language started to give me the heeby jeebies.
It's one of the things that contributes to my pedantic nature with regard to grammar etc. - grammar and vocabulary are more important than we realize. The capacity to structure our thoughts and at a very basic level our ability to think certain things are limited by our grasp of the language. Orwell understood this well and explained it so frightfully well that it put the fear of words into me.
It's one of the things that contributes to my pedantic nature with regard to grammar etc. - grammar and vocabulary are more important than we realize. The capacity to structure our thoughts and at a very basic level our ability to think certain things are limited by our grasp of the language. Orwell understood this well and explained it so frightfully well that it put the fear of words into me.
Mr Cleansheets
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For me, 1984 and Catch 22 are simply awesome for catching the human condition as revealed by the end of WW2. Tolkien's LOTR probably makes my top 5, but for reasons I've forgotten. I've (honestly) read it about 60 times but it irritates the crap out of me thse days. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh makes my list but it's too hard to pick a fifth. I've probably got 20 books in my top five.
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"Bloody Casuals"
Mr Cleansheets
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Hi Serious
If you ask a question like that, I immediately guess that perhaps you're interested in being a writer yourself, so I'll respond to the question as though that is the case.
I've been writing "seriously" on and off for 18 years, and Mr C is my first book published in the mainstream (I had one vanish without trace in the small press in 2000). It is very hard to get published in the mainstream these days, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try if you have a story to tell. I genuinely believe that if want something bad enough you will get it in the end and at the risk of sounding like a complete wanker - it really is the journey that matters. If you start out as a complete nobody (as most of us do) you have to come up with something pretty fantastic for a publisher to be interested (despite all the crap that does get published), so you write and you write and you slowly find your "voice". It's the interesting voice that makes a publisher take notice. (Mind you, they SAY that...but they still go back to Grisham, King, Rowling et al every time!)
Having said all that, I do not regard myself or Mr C as a success just yet. It's far too early. But initial feedback has been really strong (especially from women, to my great surprise and delight) so fingers crossed.
If you ask a question like that, I immediately guess that perhaps you're interested in being a writer yourself, so I'll respond to the question as though that is the case.
I've been writing "seriously" on and off for 18 years, and Mr C is my first book published in the mainstream (I had one vanish without trace in the small press in 2000). It is very hard to get published in the mainstream these days, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try if you have a story to tell. I genuinely believe that if want something bad enough you will get it in the end and at the risk of sounding like a complete wanker - it really is the journey that matters. If you start out as a complete nobody (as most of us do) you have to come up with something pretty fantastic for a publisher to be interested (despite all the crap that does get published), so you write and you write and you slowly find your "voice". It's the interesting voice that makes a publisher take notice. (Mind you, they SAY that...but they still go back to Grisham, King, Rowling et al every time!)
Having said all that, I do not regard myself or Mr C as a success just yet. It's far too early. But initial feedback has been really strong (especially from women, to my great surprise and delight) so fingers crossed.
Mr Cleansheets
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Cool. Thanks Serious. I really hope you enjoy it. Tell everyone if you do.
Mr Cleansheets
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I went through a really passionate Orwell phase (and he's probably still my favourite writer) when I read all of his books in order. It was really interesting how his fascination with the concept of the individual's battle with the collective is there from the very beginning and of course reaches its stark conclusion with Animal Farm and 1984. To think he died at 47, just as he was reaching his peak. What else might he have done in later life with those incredible powers of prophecy.
Has anyone read the Flashman books? Fantastic.
Has anyone read the Flashman books? Fantastic.
FFC Mariner
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Brave New World (Huxley) is another chilling insight into the future.
For a classic..............Brighton Rock by Graham Green, a great portrait of a phscho
For a classic..............Brighton Rock by Graham Green, a great portrait of a phscho
Mr Cleansheets
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Brighton Rock? Would you believe that I slightly ripped off Brighton Rock for one of my characters in Mr Cleansheets? Mind you, it actually refers to Brighton Rock in the text, so I'm not hiding it.
All of the above.....not that I've read them recently.
One of my recent reads was The Life of Pi....a boy adrift in the Pacific in a lifeboat, alone with a tiger, a zebra and a hyena. Brilliant writing and a modern fable. I don't know how it manages to work, but it does....
For Post-Apocalypse, you can't go further than The Road by Cormac McCarthy (now a dark film) or Earth Abides by George Stewart.
One of my recent reads was The Life of Pi....a boy adrift in the Pacific in a lifeboat, alone with a tiger, a zebra and a hyena. Brilliant writing and a modern fable. I don't know how it manages to work, but it does....
For Post-Apocalypse, you can't go further than The Road by Cormac McCarthy (now a dark film) or Earth Abides by George Stewart.
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