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3. What do you think about Cromwell's relationship with Thomas More? With Cardinal Thomas Wolsey?
I too agree that Cromwell's relationship with Wolsey was like a father & son; it was one of the things i admired about Cromwell his loyalty to Wolsley. Wolsey's habit of making up stories about Cromwell's past i also found quite funny. As for Cromwell & More, i'm not sure, Cromwell definitely comes across as having a more balanced view of religion where as More is exasperatingly single-minded. It seems unlikely that with them being rivals Cromwell would have been so accomodating to More in real life.
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I've read 53 of them & have quite a few sitting on my shelves waiting to be read like The God Of Small Things,Wild Swans, Half Of A Yellow Sun, Never Let Me Go, Beloved, A Prayer For Owen Meany & The Colour Purple. Not surprised to see so many Roald Dahl books on the list
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I missed this before for some reason... Did you enjoy it until the bitter end? It's on one of my reading challenges and I've heard it's definitely worth a read...
I really enjoyed it Frankie ; it;'s one of those books that stays in your head after you've finished reading it. I have another of his books on my TBR pile If This Is A Man. The Truce about his time in Auschwitz but i'm going to wait awhile before i read that.
About 60 pages into Digging To America & enjoying it so far
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I finished A Christmas Carol this morning and recently started Agnes Grey. It's quite good so far.
Hope you enjoy Agnes Grey i read it a few months week ago & enjoyed it though it's not as good as The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall IMO
I started Digging To America by Anne Tyler this morning.
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Hi Dominik , Welcome to the forum
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I've finished Wolf Hall, and enjoyed it so much I've gone right into Bring Up the Bodies (by Hilary Mantel).
I was eyeing it up in Waterstones & was tempted but it's a bit pricey at the moment so i'll be interested to her what you think of it.
I just finished If Not Now, When? Primo Levi not sure what my next read is going to be: I shall sleep on it & decide in the morning
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. I also read a few horrors in my teens . We used to have these Pan books of horror stories which circulated round and round the school.
I remember those they'd have like gory pictures on the front; there was one with a skull with worms wriggling out of the eye sockets if i remember rightly
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I also listened to the BBC Radio 4 programme Open Book today, which featured Patrick Ness talking about his latest novel aimed at adults instead of the YA market, and it sounds brilliant. Definitely added to my wishlist for when my spending freeze is over!
I listened to that one as well & i thought it sounded really good but i want to read A Monster Calls & The Knife of Never Letting Go first before i buy anymore of his books.
Less than 100 pages to go in If Not Now, When? Primo Levi, this has been such a thought provoking read i couldn't sleep last night for thinking about the story & i had to resist going downstairs to finish it
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Really sad 59 is not old these days.
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Hi Mallow, welcome to the forum
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I'm fed up of talking to non-bookloving friends and family whose eyes glaze over as I gush about yet another book they have never heard of,let alone read..!
Ah yes i've had that experience usually people smile politely but you can tell they're not really interested & those are the ones who profess to like books
Well you'll certainly not have that experience here Welcome to the forum June
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Yea, out of all the true crime books I've read, In Cold Blood gives me the Willies each time I read it. It wins for "Most-Read-Book " by me. I'm not big into re-reading, but I've read it 3 times . Each time, from the very beginning ,when it describes what each family member in the house is doing that day, you want to yell RUN !!!! to them-- GET OUT OF THE HOUSE !!!!
I was in my early teens when i first read it so quite an impressionable age also read The Shining around the same time which really creeped me out as well . I think i must have had quite morbid tastes in books as i read quite a lot of horror in my teens
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Good job it was a freebie Athena & you didn't waste any money on it
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I can see how the pronouns are a bit confusing...but once I got into Mantel's rhythm it was far less confusing for me.
I found that as well, once you get used to her writing style it makes it a lot easier to read. I also found the list of characters in the front useful when i forgot who was who with the minor characters
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I read In Cold Blood by Capote years ago when i was quite young & i seem to remember that it gave me a few sleepless nights
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. I've been thinking about it since I finished, such a disconcerting read.
Always the sign of a good book i think. I've not read Brave New World but i do have Island on my TBR pile
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Listened to Alan Bennett reading his book, The Uncommon Reader today while getting on with other things, and most enjoyable it wa too!
I have this on audio as well i could listen to Alan Bennetts voice all day
I'm loving Wolf Hall.
Glad your enjoying it
I stayed up last night to finish The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel as i wanted to start April with a new book, it was a great read & i will get round to watching the movie eventually i hope. I've gone for something completely different for my next read If Not Now, When ? Primo Levi. It's about a group of partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War.
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1. There are many and varied historical accounts of Cromwell’s life. Did you find his portrayal as a sympathetic character surprising and believable?
I didn't know anything about Thomas Cromwell before i read Wolf Hall; I certainly don't remember learning about him at school so i don't have anything to compare Mantels portrayal of him with. Having said that i liked his character very much he came across as a strong, intelligent man who had achieved his position of trusted advisor to both Wolsey & Henry not by toadying or underhand methods but by being trustworthy, loyal & clever.
2. Do you think that Hilary Mantel successfully merges historical fact with the narrative?
As i said my knowledge of that time in history is limited to what i've learnt & remembered from school but i thought Mantel brought the characters to life & i felt that i learnt more about the Tudors from Wolf Hall than i ever learnt in school.
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I read this a few years ago as well, as i remember it took me awhile to get into the story but when i did i really enjoyed it. Does anyone know if he's written anything else?
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Roast Veg soup i made it earlier in the week as i was helping out at the school Easter fair today so i didn't want to be coming home & cooking after that
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Hi & welcome to the forum
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Welcome to the forum Miss Mabel
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No i didn't get round to seeing the movie, i remember seeing the trailer & thinking that looks good but of course as usual by the time i got round to going to see it it had disappeared off the screen
I didn't know it had another title my copy has the film cast on the front- i'm only a short way into it but so far so good -
I finished The Biography Of J.L.Carr by Byron Rogers at lunchtime which brings my total reads to 18 so far this year which means i'm on track to at least equal last years end of year count of 72 all being well. Thanks to Willoyd for recommending the above it's certainly whetted my appetite for reading more of Carr's book's. I have a few books jostling for position as my next read but have decided to ignore them for the time being & go for something light hearted; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Deborah Moggach.
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
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Thanks Claire, i'll check out his non fiction as one of my resolutions was to try & read more non fiction this year