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Shane
Dec 16, 2008 22:28:38 GMT
Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 16, 2008 22:28:38 GMT
Okay its not British and it probably doesn't look like it should be anywhere on this board at all but on the grounds that it takes literally about twelve minutes to read and it won't take up much room I'll leave it to Dem's discretion.. This is probably the single best novel ever written for economy of pace, style, and primitive psychology. It's pulp, pap, emotional, stereotyped but...no its not. It's just electric from the moment the wee boy sees the lone stranger in his faded black suit riding up the valley to the moment he rides into the distance. It's everything you ever wanted in a western including a guy in a black hat and you can start it on the bus to work and leave it on the seat for the next guy.
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Shane
Dec 16, 2008 23:29:19 GMT
Post by carolinec on Dec 16, 2008 23:29:19 GMT
Ah, now, my hubby would be into this one (though I daren't show him the Vault - I wouldn't want him finding out about the kind of things I get up to online! ). He always talks about doing this book for his exams in English at school. Apparently, the film was out at around the same time. All the lazy kids just went to see the film and didn't bother with the book - but they're so different they couldn't answer the questions. My swot of a husband had read the book AND seen the film, so he did quite well in his exam!
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Shane
Mar 17, 2019 14:26:19 GMT
Post by ripper on Mar 17, 2019 14:26:19 GMT
I caught the classic 1953 film version with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Jack Palance on TV recently. It reminded me that we had to read the book at school for English. It was either the 2nd or 3rd year of secondary school, so not for O-levels. Haven't read it since, but I remember how much I enjoyed it at the time.
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Shane
Mar 18, 2019 8:24:53 GMT
Post by mattofthespurs on Mar 18, 2019 8:24:53 GMT
We read it in our English classes during the early 80's.
I was a fast reader and completed it in two lessons. The rest of the classes took over a month to finish it. By that time I had read it 3 times and finished The Exorcist and The Amityville horror.
I was caught reading one of those by the teacher who did not believe I had finished Shane three times and set me a test of 10 questions. I got 10/10 and he allowed me to read whatever I wanted as the class took it's time finishing Shane.
I remember the book had bright yellow boards and no dust jacket.
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Shane
Mar 18, 2019 8:26:45 GMT
Post by mattofthespurs on Mar 18, 2019 8:26:45 GMT
I caught the classic 1953 film version with Alan Ladd, Van Heflin and Jack Palance on TV recently. It reminded me that we had to read the book at school for English. It was either the 2nd or 3rd year of secondary school, so not for O-levels. Haven't read it since, but I remember how much I enjoyed it at the time. Same here. I know we read it in our 3rd year because the school was divided in an upper and lower school and I remember reading it in the first home room class I had in the upper year. The first two years were in the lower school so that means I read it 3rd year (which I believe equates to year 9 now?) so I would have been 14 at the time.
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Shane
Mar 20, 2019 16:36:32 GMT
Post by ripper on Mar 20, 2019 16:36:32 GMT
The books we read had no jackets, so could well have been the same edition. I can't remember if it was 2nd or 3rd year, but that would have been 1975/1976. We were not allowed to read it on our own, rather the books were handed out each lesson and someone had to take turns to read it aloud. The only times we were told to read it by ourselves in the lessons were when there was an embarrassing part. Nothing in Shane so far as I recall, but when we read 1984 we were told to read the part when Winston visits the prostitute and when he is in bed with Julia on our own. Actually, back then there were never enough books for everyone to have one and we had to share one copy between two.
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Shane
Mar 21, 2019 7:36:58 GMT
Post by mattofthespurs on Mar 21, 2019 7:36:58 GMT
Ours were handed out to each of us per lesson too.
We had so many slow readers that I finished it in in two double English classes.
Some of us had to share but thankfully I wasn't one of them. This was in 1983.
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