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I thought you might like Tartary, but I hadn't imagined you'd read it.
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I'm something of a travel lit junky; in addition my reading tastes skew British and one of my favorite periods is between the wars. So it checks a lot of boxes for me.
Hah! Spot-on. Thanks. I've been a James fan for years, starting with his memoirs (some of which I had to order from Britain, back in a golden age when both books and international postage were a lot cheaper than they are now). I have several of his compendia, for want of a better word, essays, poetry anthologies etc. Good for dipping into. I don't always agree with him, but he's usually fun or enlightening if not both. I don't think he was much of a presence here, but as he notes in the linked article, much of his celebrity in Britain was due to his tv gigs.
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I liked Disney till I was about 11, though aspects always annoyed. They annoyed me even more when I read the original works. They are a blot.
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Worst of all, people take the Disney version as scripture. Just as one example, I suspect many, if not most, don't know that Disney and not the Brothers Grimm named the dwarfs. Which means that other adaptations can't use the dwarf names and people assume they got it wrong.
I have a soft spot for Pinocchio, though.