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Post by ghost on Nov 26, 2011 9:10:02 GMT
MURDER AT THE MOTEL Victor Gunn
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Post by ghost on Sept 27, 2011 9:07:58 GMT
Thanks for the link, I was thinking about The Aphrodite Inheritance recently.
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Post by ghost on Sept 2, 2011 11:12:51 GMT
Is there a handy Venn diagram for the difference between Fantasy and fantasy? Clive Barker does sterling work talking about the fantastique, but that too needs Venning.
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Post by ghost on Sept 2, 2011 9:36:51 GMT
TAKE DEATH FOR A LOVER "Gail Turner was a name in the papers. She was news. She was a tall, curved honey-blonde with the most innocent face you ever saw. But by the time I got to her she was dead and the way things had been arranged everyone was going to believe me guilty."
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Post by ghost on Sept 2, 2011 8:12:26 GMT
There's been a bid to claim the Bronte's Gondal/Angria material for (early) Science Fiction...
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Post by ghost on Aug 29, 2011 10:35:46 GMT
Have you got David Pringle's Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1946-1987?
An interesting list of choices.
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Post by ghost on Aug 28, 2011 16:11:39 GMT
we could expand on this with a companion question; ... and what books & mags were passing around the playground?It seems like it was a law that all 80s playgrounds had to have a copy of The Rats going round...
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Post by ghost on Aug 27, 2011 18:12:06 GMT
Thanks for making the thread.
From the first 100 we 'did':
Shakespeare -- M*cbeth [O-level English syllabus]
From the second hundred
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte [English] The Stranger by Camus [A-level french syllabus] Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell [O-level English syllabus] Weirdstone of Brinsingamen by Alan Garner [read to us in junior school] Sweeny Todd by Sondheim & Wheeler ["performed" by school, I was 3rd lighting assistant]
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Post by ghost on Aug 27, 2011 8:46:10 GMT
2. John Blackburn - The Tragedy of Macbeth, William Shakespeare – Huzzah! Did this in school, where we were marched to the local cinema to see the Polanski film. Beltin’. Fell in love with the story ever since. Is there a 'horror we did in school' thread? French A-Level meant we did Camus' The Plague, a much better horror contender than The Stranger... (but not to be confused with the James Darke version)
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Post by ghost on Aug 22, 2011 18:28:04 GMT
i'm not sure i set out wanting to like Dave Simpson's exploration of the wonderful and frightening world of The Fall as it is everything MES purports to despise, but i couldn't help myself. Same here. I ended up buying several extra copies when the book turned up in The Works for 49p. Hmm.
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Post by ghost on Aug 22, 2011 18:10:07 GMT
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Post by ghost on Aug 13, 2011 8:59:48 GMT
Speak of the devil: am trying to write a blog entry about an English Softcover Library non-gem I have (painted cover, alas).
Happy to email you scans of that one and another I've got. PM me your email if you want.
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Post by ghost on Jun 25, 2011 8:57:55 GMT
MysteriesArthur Berry - Take Death for a Lover Great thread. My copy of Take Death For a Lover (Five Star, 1972) is by W. Howard Baker.
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