The Reading Vent & Rant Thread

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Lawrence Durrell was a great writer. Gerald Durrell was an an entertaining writer. Care to guess whose books I have re-read?

I have seen the TV show The Durrells based on Gerald Durrell's books. I found it quite fun to watch.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Lawrence Durrell was a great writer. Gerald Durrell was an an entertaining writer. Care to guess whose books I have re-read?

Lawrence Durrell was entertaining as well - have you not read https://www.amazon.co.uk/Antrobus-Co...dp/B008022XEG/ / https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/antrobus-complete ?

[Martinoptic]

Thanks for the link. I started reading bitter lemons, but found it a bit dry. Antorbus looks as if it might be fun.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Lawrence Durrell was a great writer. Gerald Durrell was an an entertaining writer. Care to guess whose books I have re-read?

I think Lawrence was overrated and I don't think he's aged well; I can't imagine slogging through that overwritten tripe again. Gerald is fun.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I have seen the TV show The Durrells based on Gerald Durrell's books. I found it quite fun to watch.

The Durrells is very different from the books and the books took liberties with the truth themselves.

Originally Posted by Martinoptic

Thanks for the link. I started reading bitter lemons, but found it a bit dry. Antorbus looks as if it might be fun.

I love the Antrobus stories.

[maddz]

Originally Posted by issybird

I think Lawrence was overrated and I don't think he's aged well; I can't imagine slogging through that overwritten tripe again.

I'll confess to attempting The Alexandria Quartet on several occasions and bottling out. The only reason I try to read it is because my great aunt lived in Alexandria at the time the series is set and she was part of the literary set there. It does come across like Simon Raven who has also aged badly although I have a liking for The Roses of Picardie and it's sequel, September Castle. The 1950s louche settings are distinctly past their best-before date; I suspect we'll see the same with modern millenial fiction, especially metro-sexual rom-coms in the next decade or so.

Bitter Lemons is more reportage than fiction so, yes, somewhat dry.