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4th May 2020Agliomby commented on:
What book are you currently reading?Next, try his son Martin. I read Kingsley years ago, and avoided Martin, presupposing he would be trading on his father's reputation. I was very wrong. The respect he has for his father is apparent not only by his comments, but by references obscure and direct in his books, especially 'London Fields'ViewDate:
3rd May 2020Agliomby commented on:
What book are you currently reading?Hello Elgin Yes, my copy of Martin Chuzzlewit happens to also be an Everyman edition. I haven't read any Chekhov. My only competent language is English, and am therefore stuck with translations, and always feel my relationship with the author is being filtered. I am interested to know what else you may be reading. My reading goes from Shakespeare, Milton, and George Chapman through to Ian Fleming, John Banville, Ian McEwan, and John leCarre, with the Brontes and my favourite of all time, George Eliot in between. My reading is not at all academic, rather for pleasure.ViewDate:
3rd May 2020Agliomby commented on:
What book are you currently reading?Currently, I am reading Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, and enjoying it immensely. It is one of the few I fid not read as a young man. I have gone back to that author after discovering Martin Amis, and his engrossing style. I was looking for an author doing more than just telling a story, and in fact I find the style of the two remarkably similar I have tried e.reading but cannot concentrate with that medium. In fact the copy of Chuzzlewit I have is nearly as old as I am, and reminds me of the pleasure I have always got from a well bound and presented book. It is cloth covered, with quality paper that let's the pages turn and lie easily.