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StoryGraph has been delighting me lately! I wasn't able to recover my old GoodReads account (it's been years since I could last be called a constant reader), which motivated me to look into alternatives now that the platform is owned by Amazon.
StoryGraph has been (almost) everything I've been looking for! The recommendations look far more considered, and I adore the various rating metrics and the little reading habit summaries in user profiles. I'd love if it were a little more intuitively social, but you can't win 'em all. ![]() Sent from my SM-G998B using Tapatalk |
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Just read and enjoyed an article from The Guardian where several authors tell about books that were important for ther coming of age.
I especially liked the description of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children. It is available here at MR. I am tempted to read it. |
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the rook, bossing Never.
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The 1970 film, The Railway Children, was directed by Lionel Jeffries and stars Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter (who had earlier featured in the BBC's 1968 dramatisation of the novel). maybe one of Jenny Agutter's best performances. Not a bad film, but the book is better if you like reading.* I enjoyed many all her books immensely. She did write some good series. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nesbit#Works Virtually all her works are available as free ebooks as they all ought to be PD (d. 1924). I've not read The House of Arden and only got (and enjoyed) many of her books as an adult. EDIT * I did enjoy The Railway Children Film (shown on TV), so eventually got the DVD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ra...m)#Development Incidentally I think the three short stories of Ian Fleming's "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" are better than James Bond. Of course the Child Catcher part was added for the film and probably by Roald Dahl, who worked on the screenplay for a while (may have been sacked). Last edited by Quoth; 08-04-2024 at 07:51 AM. |
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She was the eldest daughter (Bobbie/Roberta) and the mother in the 2000 version (due to being 30 years older!). The sequel is nothing related to any E Nesbit story and set in 1940s rather than 1906. I can't see the point of the remake or the sequel other than to try and cash in on nostalgia. Cowardly movie production is to do remakes and fake sequels rather than fresh movies from good screenplays. They picked Jenny Agutter for the nearly pointless 2000 version and its fake sequel purely because she was so famous in the 1968 BBC TV version and the 1970 movie version. |
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The 1970 version was great. And she was also good in Walkabout the next year.
I wasn’t so keen on the TV series Call the midwife though…. I can recommend Granny Grump’s version of the the railway children here on mobile read. |
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I'll give the 1970 version of The Railway Children a go. I can get that in HD. The 2000 version seems to only be available in SD.
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Read the book before and after the 1970 version. Somehow either I missed the 1968 BBC version or forgot it, though it would have been B&W for us. I do like the Bastables series, the Psammead (sand fairy) series and the Enchanted Castle (standalone like the Railway Children). Didn't even consider it. Quote:
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The "This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons blah blah blah entirely coincidental" disclaimer always tickles me, especially in books with more fantastical elements.
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