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Originally Posted by pdurrant
What I love about the book is the relationship between Davie and Alan. And the way they each have their failings, despite also being excellent fellows.
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I agree, their relationship really was what held this story together.
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The various film adaptions have never done it justice, I feel. And I'm not sure it's possible for them to do so, it being so much told from Davie's inner point of view.
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I haven't seen the movies and really went into this with a clean slate, which may or may not have been an advantage to me. I agree with issybird that at the right age this could have been the perfect book (at least if the language was easier).
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I'm surprised to find that several people have found the language makes their reading slow. I'd be interested in a list of problematic words/phrases so that I can update my versions with extra glossary items.
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I wish I had highlighted some of them as I was going through but I didn't and if I were to go back through it now many of them wouldn't jump out at me again. I suspect it would be easier to follow for someone who has read more books from this time period and location although I may go looking for some non-fiction to help me understand more about what was going on. Being from the USA our history classes were very much limited to what was going on
here in the mid 1700s and the rest of the world was pretty much ignored or consisted of "people came to the new world from [places] because [things]..." and had little to no detail.