Crassus 7:42 Mon Oct 10
The Secret Agent - the book
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Anyone here read it? Football agent shinanigans
Picked it up for a holiday read, fascinating yet not at all shocking, wonder who he is and to whom he refers?
More than one occasion that had us all over it.
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riosleftsock
1:34 Wed Oct 12
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eswing
No, its set in the time of the spanish civil war, he is trying to persuade the british to supply them with coal.
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Swiss.
1:02 Wed Oct 12
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written by that Polish geezer who iived in France?
Love Lord Jim..book and film with O'Toole.
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Crassus
7:50 Tue Oct 11
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yes yes all very good
Now this grotty little paperback that I applied myself to - anyone else?
Good read as it goes
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Lertie Button
7:46 Tue Oct 11
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Really hard work, not exactly a page turner.
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gooders
11:00 Mon Oct 10
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Yeah 'Heart of Darkness' - probably the most difficult 100 page read ever. I preferred rios version of the thread.
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eswing hammer
10:47 Mon Oct 10
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Rio is that the mi5 agent who dressed as a piss stained tramp and kept Isis under surveillance who in turn were watching him and tried to behead him?
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Problem Child
10:46 Mon Oct 10
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Of course, you're quoting from The Heart of Darkness there Gooders, rather than the book in question.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:41 Mon Oct 10
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Conrad is unreadable - totally bludgeons the living shit out of the language with a blunt turbot.
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gooders
10:30 Mon Oct 10
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“He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath—"The horror! The horror!".
Not too bad when you consider English was his third language.
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riosleftsock
8:46 Mon Oct 10
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I liked it, but it wasn't Conrad's best.
They've been serialising Graham Greene's The confidential agent on Radio 4 - this is fucking brilliant.
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