February 2012
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Book post: Somme Mud
Somme Mud, a memoir by E. F. Lynch, written in the 1920s, and published in 2006. This book has been repeatedly called the Australian All Quiet on the Western Front, and has apparently started to be included on school reading lists to try and make callow young school children understand What Their Forefathers Went Through. This book is an absolutely startling testament to the psyche of the...
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TV post: Birdsong
Birdsong, the 2012 adaptation of the pretty silly 1993 book by Sebastian Faulks. I was no fan of the book. The miniseries took a relatively interventionist approach to adapting it, and therefore made it slightly better.
Cut for length; some mild spoilers.
One of my big issues with the book (there were several) was that it was centred on a romance which could have been called She’s Just Not That...
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“If ever I had dreamed of my dead name
High in the heart of London, unsurpassed...”
– “Sonnet to my friend - with an identity disc” - Wilfred Owen
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