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- January 21st, 2010, 7:09 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Comfort books
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7953
Re: Comfort books
When I have just cancelled a dentist appointment or pissed off the publisher or found a leak in the bathroom ceiling, I like to curl up with EF Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels. Edwardian camp, very gentle and affectionate, set in an idealised Rye on the Sussex coast.
- January 21st, 2010, 7:02 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What author would you have dinner with/what would you ask?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 19178
Re: What author would you have dinner with/what would you ask?
That is funny! Like being stuck in an elevator with JM Coetzee in a misanthropic mood.
- January 21st, 2010, 6:55 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Quick Writing Challenge - Dialogue between 3 generations
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5164
Re: Quick Writing Challenge - Dialogue between 3 generations
What about some futuristic conversation? Vitruvian travel in the year 2030. Greta: The queue for the body scanner is to your left, iif they call us. I always think of those blue x-ray images as resembling Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man , that figure spreadeagled out on some kind of cosmic wheel, ...
- January 19th, 2010, 8:00 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: What author would you have dinner with/what would you ask?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 19178
Re: What author would you have dinner with/what would you ask?
Eight authors at the table! Some posters here are very brave. I read Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall over Christmas and I'd love to have her around for supper. I'd serve venison and hope she isn't vegetarian. I'd love to hear more about her life in Botswana and Saudi Arabia. Over a berried pavlova I'd ask...
- January 19th, 2010, 7:50 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Copywritten or not??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5049
Re: Copywritten or not??
Using brand names is quite acceptable in most novels, but the connotations need to be studied carefully because a character wearing Armani, sporting a Rolex, running in Nikes and driving a Ferrari sounds like an ad exec in parody of his profession. The stereotyping can be offputting -- images of tha...