Anne Frank The Diary of a young girl.
Not a big book reader
Hi Martini nice to see your still alive and not dead ( bit like a bit of road kill ) hell I've turned over a new leaf nowadays soft, and a sensitive barstard to boot, yep it's true, no rudeness from my keyboard.Hey John what's doin over there in Limeyland,
See now, I always knew you were a sensitive bastard but everyone else said I was nuts.
Hah, I remember remember when you and Mikey went off to live in the Swediske Cloudberry bogs after getting hitched. That brandy is tough to get free of from what I had heard.Sorry, but I keep forgetting who was the husband. Those pics in a new gimp suit were a riot.
So this place is the same as always, except for the not so much fun part now. Do not use your normal hard core bantering....it will only get you in trouble. This post is probably even pushing that tiny envelope, sad as it seems.
Just had to at least type a bit in your direction buddy,
Martini
Wow! @dodgy! Good to see you man!
Enjoying this book by Ben Elton
TIME AND TIME AGAIN(I've not read the book lots, thats the title)
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If you had one chance to change history
where would you go ?
What would you do ?
Who would you kill ?
I think Elton's a bit late to the party on this one. Katherine Atkinson has already done a superb treatment of this theme with Life After Life. Not to mention Laura Barnett's The Versions of Us.
The normal answers to the old 'Who would you kill?' question is either Adolf Hitler or Lee Harvey Oswald. Funnily enough, nobody ever goes for Lenin or Trotsky, which would arguably have saved far more lives...
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the book. Elton can write rather well at times.
Ye going back in time there would be quite a few bad buggers for the chopping block.
Eltons book is about trying to stop the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, then to Berlin to try and kill Kaiser Wilhelm.
Basically he is trying to stop the great war but what will occur in its place and how does history change.
The book has enough interest in it with a few twists and turns to keep me wanting to turn to the next page.
You know, I've always been interested in this literary theme and I bought the book on kindle after I posted last night. I like it already.
Elton has always had a feel for the early 20th century, the Great War and the awful tragedy that it was.
Glad you are enjoying the book !....When I finish this one i might try another of his books ( Two brothers )
Regards Pat
Not a massive book fan but just finished "Touching the void" Wow captivating. The film is fantastic too.
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