War and Peace

THE EXOCIST is now dead...Oh, sorry I gave away the ending..

For my next read I have now made a start on
E.M.Forsters- A PASSAGE TO INDIA..
Theres nothing like a complete subject matter change to keep the grey matter alive.
robert

 

I love John Wyndham - you haven't chosen his best though! Day of the triffids and the chrysalids are FANTSATIC books!

claire - I love Persuasion too. BIG Jane Austen fan. I also re-read wuthering heights recently (before the rubbish itv drama) and remembered how much I love it. Am now working through a load of books I used to love and haven't read in years....

 

I caught ten minutes of it on Sunday-the ITV dramatisation, it's catatonic by comparison to the genius writings of Emily Bronte. I couldn't bear to watch what they did to my favourite book any longer.


And Anne Elliott is possibly one the greatest English heroines. ( Because Cathy certainly wasn't-what a witch! lol)

 

Cant agree more - it was dreadful and the book is so brilliantly written...

Lol, she is up there with the best.... but I do like Lizzy Bennett.....

 

Glad I did not bother to watch,. but then I gave up on the book!
I also had to end "Passge to India"after about 100 pages. I found it rather boring and difficult to see where the story line was heading.
I have since read " The Lost City" by Joseph E Badger Jnr
I cracking good yarn in the Indiana Jones style that could be turned into a movie.
Not sure what to tackle next.
Robert
In fact it may already have been.

 

Robert, I really do recommend the chrysalids - john wyndham

or a thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini is also excellent (but very sad!)

 

Thanks for the recommendation mz. I believe I have a copy on The Chrysilids.
I shall search it out.
I enjoyed the Kraken.
robert

 

I now have a copy of The Chrysilids on my Bebook open on page one and ready for a good read.
Also Stowaway to Mars, Consider her ways, and The Midwich Cuckoos by the same auther are all lined up for the next session.
robert

 

Ace, let me know what you think.

 

THE CRYSALIDS by John Wyndham.


A fascinating story told through the eyes of David many, many thousands of years in the future. After a planetary holocaust there are survivors scattered across the globe and after many centuries of evolution of humans, flora and fauna the development of these groups there appears a generation of youngsters that can practise thought transfer.
The younger of the group has exceptional powers and makes thought contact with a person many miles away in an unknown place.
The story conveys the struggle the group experienced to escape the practiced fundamentalist Christianity with post-apocalyptic prohibitions and to undertake a dangerous journey to a technologically advanced civilization.
A quote from the story describes the scene many years after the nuclear holocaust:


This is a dreadful country indeed. We have seen Badlands before, but none of us has ever imagined anything quite so terrible as this. There are stretches, miles across, where it looks as if all the ground has been fused into black glass; there is nothing else, nothing but the black glass like a frozen ocean of ink... then belts of Badlands...then another wilderness of black glass. It goes on and on...What did they do here? What can they have done to create such a frightful place?


If I had to score this novel, it would get a highly recommended 9/10 from me.


I am now starting on another John Wyndham story titled
Stowaway to Mars.

 

A book that I read a short while ago was, The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I was surprised to learn last week that it's being made into a film. Fantastic!!! I make no apologies here, but my usual reading material consists of Westerns, especially if they're by Louis L'Amour (I know, strange name!) who uses real locations in his stories. clippity-clop....

 

Niffenegger...
L`amour...

Strange names indeed

 

Well, Robert, I did once read John Wyndham's The Triffids. Fantastic read!! I haven't tried his other stories, but the way I get through books, I'll have to see if I can find them. At present, and each day until I've read it through, I'm reading Jules Verne's super story, Journey to the Centre of the Earth. I first read it when I was in my early teens, and as I liked it so much, I'm giving it a go again.:gnthb:

 

I do so love that book! love all JW's but thats my all time fave... glad you enjoyed it too! :-)

 

Well mztrouble, I like that story so much that I just had to record James Mason's film of that epic journey. Of course, it doesn't precisely run true to the original book, but I feel okay about this. It's the idea behind the story that's so thrilling!:yho:It's nice to see that you share this story also...