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18 Feb 17
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Happy birthday, Len Deighton. Eighty-eight today.
SS-GB was a terrific novel. A detective story set in a 1941 England conquered by the Germans. Just how do you live in those circumstances? Are the great and the good of your country really worth putting yourself in the firing line for? And that's a question for everyone, whether you're German or English. And what if you're a neutral American?
The trailers look good. Screenplay by the team who did the Daniel Craig Bond films, a top German director and Deighton himself reportedly satisfied with the result. Hope it's worth watching.
SS-GB was a terrific novel. A detective story set in a 1941 England conquered by the Germans. Just how do you live in those circumstances? Are the great and the good of your country really worth putting yourself in the firing line for? And that's a question for everyone, whether you're German or English. And what if you're a neutral American?
The trailers look good. Screenplay by the team who did the Daniel Craig Bond films, a top German director and Deighton himself reportedly satisfied with the result. Hope it's worth watching.
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Deighton gave up writing far too early - '96? - mind you, City Of Gold was a stinker - I guess he got rich enough. Colin Dexter still alive - why last Morse 1999? Diabetes no excuse. We need to be entertained - if only for a few hours. How can we live with ourselves otherwise?
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Have you tried Buddhist chanting?
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Does it involve stabbing Buddhists while you chant?
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Nam-iy-yo-ho-reng-gey-kyo
Nam-iy-yo-ho-reng-gey-kyo .....repeat Dictaton guesses as : Only your whole range a cure Nelly O'Hara JQ No meal arrange a keel Now Neil Horan JQ Nanny you're going to make you Are you always take you No meal already to you all |
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PS ....no stabbing necessary
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So you say ...
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His last three books were Faith, Hope and Charity, the final trilogy in the Bernard Sampson story. He completed that set in 1996, as you say, and that was it. He seems to have been researching and writing a history of aero engines ever since, which might one day see the light of day.
On balance I'm content that he stopped writing when he did, at the age of 67. There's more to life than doing your job. And Charity was such a flat ending to such a monumental body of work - a real contractual-obligation album. Oddly enough, the preceding one, Hope, the one set in a frozen Poland, I found brilliant. I think he must have realized then that he'd used up all the inspiration he was going to have. He's never had the recognition he deserves as a historian imo. One of the very few English-language writers who have understood how morally ambiguous WW2 was from the point of view of events in Eastern Europe (which is what kicked it all off after all). I hope the TV version of SS-GB doesn't gloss over one of the vital strands of the plot - the fact that Russia was by far the most reliable and enthusiastic ally Nazi Germany ever had, fighting by its side to carve out their respective empires and supplying Hitler with all the resources and support it could. |
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I'm afraid, I've been put off by the endless ads for this aired every break between programmes on the BBC. Seems too glossy and ott in the CGI stakes.
Over hyped. |
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bodil
19 Feb 17 00:59 Joined: 27 Feb 03 | Topic/replies: 11,233 | Blogger: bodil's blog Deighton gave up writing far too early - '96? - mind you, City Of Gold was a stinker - I guess he got rich enough. Colin Dexter still alive - why last Morse 1999? Diabetes no excuse. We need to be entertained - if only for a few hours. How can we live with ourselves otherwise? Bodil, today is your lucky day because very soon I'm going to publish my blockbuster. I'm doing a final proof over the next few days and it will on Amazon at the end of the week. Of course I'll put a post up on chit chat to give you all a chance to buy a copy at reduced chit chat prices. You'll love it if you like good literature (apart from the prolific use of split infinitives ... I thought, WTF, I'm in the mood to split an infinitive). PS Alun2005 helped and played a small, but significant part with my research and deserves a mention. |
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the fact that Russia was by far the most reliable and enthusiastic ally Nazi Germany ever had, fighting by its side to carve out their respective empires and supplying Hitler with all the resources and support it could.
Yep , they actually applied to join The Axis. |
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Fair enough, Facts. A review I've read by someone who's seen episode one praised it for the lack of gloss - "the colour palette and feel are just right - lots of browns, smudgy dirty streets, under-lit pubs and kitchen parlours, all just right for a country struggling under the yoke of the Nazis." Also the lack of reliance on CGI, by means of keeping the camera at the characters' eye level, making you see the city from the point of view of a detective looking for clues.
Could turn out not to be like that, of course. Still a book worth reading though. |
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For ' Glossy' read hi definition digital film. hth
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"Hth" ...
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