Posted by stormywaters on Thu 23 Apr 09, 8:36 PM to stormywaters's blog.
Well I feel all dressed up and nowhere to go. There was supposed to be an IC bookclub (!) discussion of the Go Between on here now but I have that sinking feeling that I am the only one who has actually turned up. Dozy buggers where are you all?
So... anyone want to discuss the Go Between? (I'll fucking kill them, the ones wot were supposed to be here that is.)
| 23 Apr 09, 8:45 PM Butterscotch UK(RM), 3 yrs  |
There's an IC bookclub?
I've never heard of the Go Betweens sorry so can't join in even if I wasn't invited | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 8:54 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Hi, really glad to see you Jenny m. (This was deliberately kept on the weblog so anyone can join in by the way.) Do you know I have half forgotten the book now but I know it will come back. It seemed to me to be about innocence, the boys innocence, almost like the story of Adam and Eve. He was corrupted by the wicked adults who used him for their evil ends. What I found psychologically very unconvincing was the idea that he would have been so traumatised at 13 by just seeing some adults screwing, once veru briefly by accident. This experience was supposed to have blighted the rest of his life. It did remind me of Chesil beach like that. That there one disastrous evening together determined the rest of their lives. To advertise here phone 02477 562966 | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 8:55 PM HeadFirst UK(BA), 3 yrs |
We did it at school, but that was a while ago. I remember two scenes: the one where Leo catches them at it, and he thought it looked like 'an umbrella opening and closing'; and the cricket match at the end where Leo catches him out. Or have I got completely the wrong book? | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 9:00 PM xmamacassx 4 yrs |
The Go Between.......hmmmm, never managed to get through it. I enjoyed The Shrimp and the Anemone though. I also have a book written by L.P,s sister, A.N. Hartley. I have read her book many times. She lived to a great old age at Fletton Towers near Peterborough.
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| 23 Apr 09, 9:00 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Hi, no that's the one. I don't remember the bit about the umbrella, but I'm sure you're right. It is a good image, slightly coarse because mechanical. Yes and the cricket match somehow capturing the limitations of all their lives; when what really mattered was love, all the entire lot of them could get excited about was cricket. Rather like the repressed emotional lives of public school boys all comming out through sport. To advertise here phone 02477 562966 Edited 23 Apr 09, 9:01 PM by stormywaters | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 9:04 PM HeadFirst UK(BA), 3 yrs |
Wasn't it also something to do with the innocence of an era about to be destroyed by the the First World War? Edwardian society at the apex of empire enjoying a summer which they thought would never end? | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 9:05 PM CarolinaMoon IE, 4 yrs  |
Gutted - I didn't know there was an IC book club  | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 9:08 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
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| 23 Apr 09, 9:10 PM stormywaters PT, 4 yrs |
Well it was just a spontaeneous thing from a few weks ago when a few of us found ourselves on here discussing a book and decided (they said, bastrds) that we would meet here now to discuss the Go Between. So you haven't missed anything. Welcome. To advertise here phone 02477 562966 | ||
| 23 Apr 09, 9:12 PM HeadFirst UK(BA), 3 yrs |
Yes, I'd forgotten that. I'm half-tempted to re-read it, but am put off by the fact that we 'did' it at school, which usually ruins a book for ever. |
