Need for Amanda McKittrick Ros ebooks - Page 2

kindlekitten · 09-19-2010, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by AprilHare

I always thought you had more than one!

he did. and then he read that

AprilHare · 09-19-2010, 01:04 AM

One of those cancerous irritant warts that like to knock her work eh?
Consider the the mantissa of the literary abilities this woman brought to bear:

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In Ros' last novel, Helen Huddleson, she named characters after fruits, including Lord Raspberry (and his sister Cherry), Sir Peter Plum, Christopher Currant and the Earl of Grape. And Ros' penchant for alliteration resists restraint: The villainous Madame Pear, she wrote, "had a swell staff of sweet-faced helpers swathed in stratagem, whose members and garments glowed with the lust of the loose, sparkled with the tears of the tortured, shone with the sunlight of bribery, dangled with the diamonds of distrust, slashed with sapphires of scandals...."

Read more here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...-Remember.html

GeoffC · 09-19-2010, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by AprilHare

I always thought you had more than one!

May I seek that in writing !

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

he did. and then he read that

Ah, it was just an illusion ...

FlorenceArt · 09-19-2010, 02:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AprilHare

One of those cancerous irritant warts that like to knock her work eh?
Consider the the mantissa of the literary abilities this woman brought to bear:

Quote:

In Ros' last novel, Helen Huddleson, she named characters after fruits, including Lord Raspberry (and his sister Cherry), Sir Peter Plum, Christopher Currant and the Earl of Grape. And Ros' penchant for alliteration resists restraint: The villainous Madame Pear, she wrote, "had a swell staff of sweet-faced helpers swathed in stratagem, whose members and garments glowed with the lust of the loose, sparkled with the tears of the tortured, shone with the sunlight of bribery, dangled with the diamonds of distrust, slashed with sapphires of scandals...."

Read more here: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...-Remember.html

Tears are streaming down my cheeks.

FlorenceArt · 09-19-2010, 03:00 AM

I do hope Cherry Raspberry married someone suited. Sir Plum maybe? Cherry Plum sounds nice.

AprilHare · 09-19-2010, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Tears are streaming down my cheeks.

I'm glad to hear you were so moved by the great lady's work!

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I do hope Cherry Raspberry married someone suited. Sir Plum maybe? Cherry Plum sounds nice.

When I get the e-text, I'll know for sure, but I'm guessing Cherry ends up with the Earl of Grape (Cherry Grape sounds good too!).
The more ribald comment would be: who gets the Cherry pop?

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

May I seek that in writing !
Ah, it was just an illusion ...

It's in the mail - presumably alongside the cheque you sent for me to write it!

FlorenceArt · 09-19-2010, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by AprilHare

When I get the e-text, I'll know for sure, but I'm guessing Cherry ends up with the Earl of Grape (Cherry Grape sounds good too!).
The more ribald comment would be: who gets the Cherry pop?

I am shocked you can think of such an inappropriate pun with regard to this immortal prose!

Also, Cherry Currant might have appealed to her love of alliteration...

AprilHare · 09-19-2010, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

I am shocked you can think of such an inappropriate pun with regard to this immortal prose!

Also, Cherry Currant might have appealed to her love of alliteration...

I'm merely making a pun to lighten the mood - when you get to talking about Amanda one can get too caught up in praise and serious examination of her alliterative genius!

Some currants run deep eh?

GeoffC · 09-20-2010, 02:46 AM

Ah the Dear Cherry Currant, such a shrivelled up old grape

Luke King · 09-21-2010, 09:13 PM

Although I haven’t read the novel, I would imagine it runs something like this:

Lady Cherry Raspberry (the sister of Lord Cumquat Raspberry) has a bitter detractor in the shape of the beautiful Lady Leticia Lemon-Lime. The two battle it out, hoping to win the favours of the wealthy Earl of Grape (first name Guava). Although neither lady knows it, the Earl is a jackfruit, an impostor, masquerading as one of his fruity betters. He seduces the Lady Raspberry, pops poor Cherry; she is abandoned and forced into the workhouse, where she develops the recipe for her famous lemon tea. And then, with the unexpected backing of Lady Leticia Lemon-Lime, the two go into business together, make their fortune, develop a time machine, and, in an unexpected plot-twist, disappear from the face of the Earth.

Of course, it might not actually run like that, but you can usually tell.

AprilHare · 09-21-2010, 11:27 PM

Brilliant, Luke King, but one must not forget the infamous Madame Apple Pear and her attempts to blindside and seduce Lord Raspberry!

AprilHare · 09-21-2010, 11:56 PM

This extraordinary woman made significant additions to literary history, recording dialects for us to read in the future! Some say they're hard to read, but they're really useful!
Take this example:

"How soniver, it seems Beer nex no name til keep dye thing goin ir to keep dthe grandfater ive it birrelin ahes capital's lack mae own".

AprilHare · 09-21-2010, 11:57 PM

Oh, in case you have trouble finding her work, her full pen name was Amanda Malvina Fitzalan Anna Margaret McClelland McKittrick Ros. - Unforgettable, isn't it?

GeoffC · 09-22-2010, 10:22 AM

sounds to me like a lady with an identity crisis or three !

AprilHare · 09-22-2010, 08:25 PM

She clearly lived in a very creative space where identity is arbitrary rather than fixed..
Despite all that ambiguity she was so productive when it came to her epic works!
The mainstream publishers wouldn't have her (her brilliance quite clearly unsettled them) but at least her loving husband ensured her work was published (at great expense to him too!) to be enjoyed by the generations to come.

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09-19-2010, 03:00 AM	#20
FlorenceArt High Priestess Posts: 5,761 Karma: 5042529 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Montreuil sous bois, France Device: iPad Pro 9.7, iPhone 6 Plus	I do hope Cherry Raspberry married someone suited. Sir Plum maybe? Cherry Plum sounds nice.

09-20-2010, 02:46 AM	#24
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Ah the Dear Cherry Currant, such a shrivelled up old grape

09-21-2010, 09:13 PM	#25
Luke King Member Retired Posts: 173 Karma: 200000 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle 2	Although I haven’t read the novel, I would imagine it runs something like this: Lady Cherry Raspberry (the sister of Lord Cumquat Raspberry) has a bitter detractor in the shape of the beautiful Lady Leticia Lemon-Lime. The two battle it out, hoping to win the favours of the wealthy Earl of Grape (first name Guava). Although neither lady knows it, the Earl is a jackfruit, an impostor, masquerading as one of his fruity betters. He seduces the Lady Raspberry, pops poor Cherry; she is abandoned and forced into the workhouse, where she develops the recipe for her famous lemon tea. And then, with the unexpected backing of Lady Leticia Lemon-Lime, the two go into business together, make their fortune, develop a time machine, and, in an unexpected plot-twist, disappear from the face of the Earth. Of course, it might not actually run like that, but you can usually tell.

09-21-2010, 11:27 PM	#26
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	Brilliant, Luke King, but one must not forget the infamous Madame Apple Pear and her attempts to blindside and seduce Lord Raspberry!

09-21-2010, 11:56 PM	#27
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	This extraordinary woman made significant additions to literary history, recording dialects for us to read in the future! Some say they're hard to read, but they're really useful! Take this example: "How soniver, it seems Beer nex no name til keep dye thing goin ir to keep dthe grandfater ive it birrelin ahes capital's lack mae own".

09-21-2010, 11:57 PM	#28
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	Oh, in case you have trouble finding her work, her full pen name was Amanda Malvina Fitzalan Anna Margaret McClelland McKittrick Ros. - Unforgettable, isn't it?

09-22-2010, 10:22 AM	#29
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	sounds to me like a lady with an identity crisis or three !

09-22-2010, 08:25 PM	#30
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	She clearly lived in a very creative space where identity is arbitrary rather than fixed.. Despite all that ambiguity she was so productive when it came to her epic works! The mainstream publishers wouldn't have her (her brilliance quite clearly unsettled them) but at least her loving husband ensured her work was published (at great expense to him too!) to be enjoyed by the generations to come.

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