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I’m male, from France. I’ve been a DailyLit member since April 29, 2009.
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Question of the Week - Great Movie Adaptations
The BBC's "Pride and Prejudice", the original ITV "Brideshead Revisited" and "Far From the Madding Crowd" (Christie, Bates, Stamp & Finch)
Question of the Week - Great First Line to Start Off Our Story Chain
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. The Go-Between, L.P. Hartley.
Ideas - Favourite opening line(s) of a novel.
I'd like to offer the opening line of The Go Between - L.P. Hartley:
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
Etc. - Question of the Week #19: Favorite Poems
The Whitsun Weddings - Philip Larkin
Question of the Week - What's Your Favorite Word?
Ameliorate
Reader Challenges - Before I die...
I'd like to spend several months in the USA (NY and Boston for preference) probably via an exchange. I really want to experience and appreciate the American way of life - and my wife wants to see the Red Sox!
Reader Challenges - Summer Vacation in Six Words
Wearing waterproofs in the promenade shelter.
Etc. - Question of the Week #16: Favorite Female Writers
In terms of classics, George Eliot is up there, particularly "Middlemarch". I like Susan Hill, particularly the Simon Serrailler novels and PD James - both write good yarns with style.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #14: Books You Hate
It is rare for me to give up on a book but Martin Amis' "London Fields" forced me to surrender. If ever a book was over-hyped (band-wagon riding, i guess), this has to qualify. I'm not a prude by ANY means but the foul language seemed entirely gratuitous to me and as for plot........
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
On Green Dolphin Street - Sebastian Faulks
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks
Etc. - Birds in the title.
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
The White Hotel - DM Thomas
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #20: Potent Quotables
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." The Go Between - L.P. Hartley
Etc. - 50 Word Challenge
I reached the German line but then disaster struck. The rain had made the ground so slippy that I tumbled the eight feet into the trench and landed on my back. Imagine my horror when a huge German stood over me, ready to bayonet me. He fell, shot from behind.
Etc. - Birds in the title.
The Eagle has Landed - Jack Higgins
Etc. - Title has a color / colors in it!
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill
Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #23: Literature, Naturally
The opening of "Of Mice and Men" is a good call but I would offer Hardy's Wessex novels in many of which Egdon Heath almost assumes the mantle of an additional - and awesome - character.