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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
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Aaagh! Almost forgot.....Alexandr Solshenitsyn's "August 1914" IMHO is a masterpiece.
I would love to see this brought to the screen; a massive treatise on the futility and vulgarity of war, and the stupidity of those commanding it.
800 pages, and I read it in 2 days.
Read it if you get the chance!!
Sadly, the sequel "November 1916" left me cold, and I put it down after 200 pages. It had little of the humanity and verve of its predecessor.
Sorry, Solzhenitsyn....
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Solzhenitsyn?...Solzhenitsyn?...A former pipe-fitter welder from Harrogate!
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Fri 6 Jan 2012, 9:05,
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Thank you, Mr BalowskiAnd now, back to the acting!
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The trouble with Solzhenitsyn ...Is that his books have got no tits in
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The Russian General Staff..was a complete tit in this one!
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