Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song voted Scotland's favourite novel
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Nogbad_the_Bad — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 08:36 AM)
The competition isn't fierce, admittedly, but he's my favourite Bible-thumping, imperialist Tory by far! His novels are consistently good to great for me,
The 39 Steps
is as good a place as any to start, and can be found in one handy volume with the other, equally rousing, Richard Hannay stories in our local library. But the lesser known
Salute To Adventurers
is perhaps a particular favourite for sheer fun, wherein a humble Scottish chap of solid Calvinist stock goes to America, and meets some jolly nice Indians, Englishmen, Catholics and even Americans on occasion. And shoots a few of them, obviously. It's great!
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Nogbad_the_Bad — 9 years ago(October 20, 2016 03:16 PM)
It is! You know what to do -
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Squeeth2 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 01:09 PM)
None, I'm proud to say although I think I have a copy of Lanark in one of the book cases. There's an article on Wiki and I see that I've read some Alan Massie, an Alistair MacLean, an RLS, nearly all of G. M. Fraser. A couple of Smolletts, Philip Kerr, Compton Mackenzie (non-fiction) a Wishart or two and the Tranter that provided the narrative for the worst film in the world.
Marlon, Claudia & Dimby the cats 1989-2010. Clio the cat, July 1997 - 1 May 2016. -
Nogbad_the_Bad — 9 years ago(October 20, 2016 03:15 PM)
I bought a few Tranters last week for 25p a pop, for old time's sake, and read one while I was away for a few days -
True Thomas
. Characterisation was not his strong point, or anything else for that matter, but it was readable. Massie is turgid at best, and his son spews forth particularly cretinous young fogey-isms in the
Times
each time I inadvisedly look at it. GMF is another of my favourites, of course.
No valley too deep, no mountain too high.