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I'm so glad to find another fan! A magnificent books that should be wider known!
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08-16-2011, 09:42 AM | #77 |
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There don't seem to be any takers, so I'm claiming this. The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford.
Let's hope that some are intrigued enough by our praise that they decide to read it. I agree with you; it's magnificent. Here's a blurb from the Guardian: it's "thought by many to be one of the few stylistically perfect works in any language". |
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08-16-2011, 11:16 AM | #79 |
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Let's go from the sublime to the sewer.
"Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but yet fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases." |
08-16-2011, 12:46 PM | #80 |
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Dang that's familiar, but I'm drawing a blank.
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08-16-2011, 12:46 PM | #81 |
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Lady Chatterly's Lover?
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08-16-2011, 01:37 PM | #82 |
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08-16-2011, 02:20 PM | #83 |
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Hmmmm .... trashy prose from New England ....
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08-16-2011, 02:38 PM | #84 |
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...written by a housewife in blue jeans...
Am I the only person here who read trash as an adolescent? Maybe you have to be of a certain age to have heard of this book, but it is (or was, lol) a pretty famous first line. |
08-16-2011, 02:43 PM | #85 |
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I have a guess I could offer. I don't know it it would be considered fair though. I don't recognize the quote, and have never even read the book. But based on the other clues offered so far I am seeing a very young Mia Farrow . . .?
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I've never read Peyton Place .... would never have associated such lush language with it!
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Hamlet is onstage.
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08-16-2011, 03:36 PM | #90 |
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead?
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