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carrie's younger brother said:
Then you'll have to imagine the whole other level of fear I had when first reading this book/seeing the movie! Also, I can't quite remember how it's handled in the book, but the whole mother/guilt thing with the priest in the movie really gets me as well. Just discussing this book is creeping me out. :eek:
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Yesz, the whole mother/guilt thing is one aspect of the book that is very hard to read. 'Dimmy? Why you send me to home, Dimmy?'
 
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I've started another factbook that is very interesting. The Story of the Scrolls by Geza Vermes about the the Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1947. He has done research on them for about 60 years and this their history from the discovery through the many controversies about them and his own conclusions.
 
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kingricefan said:
You can always go back to Italy after you reti...........nevermind. :flat:
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It's on my bucket list along with soooo many other places I want to travel to that I might have to take a year to just travel--now if only I had the money. Maybe I should ask for a trip around the world to my bucket list places as my gift for reti....you know. ;)
 
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carrie's younger brother said:
Then you'll have to imagine the whole other level of fear I had when first reading this book/seeing the movie! Also, I can't quite remember how it's handled in the book, but the whole mother/guilt thing with the priest in the movie really gets me as well. Just discussing this book is creeping me out. :eek:
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kingricefan said:
Yesz, the whole mother/guilt thing is one aspect of the book that is very hard to read. 'Dimmy? Why you send me to home, Dimmy?'
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That part got to me a lot too . . .made me feel very guilty!!!
 
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I've started a book by Jan Guillou. "Not wanting to see.." i think would be a direct translation of the title. It is the fourth in his century-series. Started with a trio of orphaned norwegian boys growing up and getting their education, mainly engineers and artistry, in Germany in the beginning of the century. Then comes the first world war. They are separated. One is fighting in the german army, one in the british and one manages to stay outside the fighting in Norway. Now they have rejoined, a bit scarred but hoping to see their children grow up in peace. Instead they find themselfes watching their children fight on opposite sides in a battle where it becomes impossible to stay outside. This books starts just before the second world war and continue the family saga. It has similarities with Follets similar concept but Guillou concentrates on just one family and not about 5 as Follett did. He is a good writer. Don't know if any of you read his Arn-series that had a international success. This is his next project.
 
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Finished Guillou and his Not wanting to see. I liked it for its honesty. It is set in sweden during the war years. The main person is a person educated in germany and with the bigger part of the familys money placed in germany. He is, like many (though they never admitted it afterwards) of the swedish right wing parties at the time germanfriendly but not nazifriendly. They saw Hitler as sad paranthesis in Germanys history and that it would get better when he was gone. They didn't like the antisemitic thing but they didn't know of the Holocaust. Sadly thats a rather true picture of his part of the society. It is honest and in a way brave to write a book with a german friendly narrator that hopes that germany will win the war. Mostly books about this time have a narrator that stands clearly on the right side with hindsight. This man is mostly a good person. He never really wants to accept that the germany that was is very different from the germany that is. Therefore when the proofs and pictures that cant be denied unfolds from april-45 and forward when the americans liberates Buchenwald his world are crushed and his illusions falls down around him. Probably a bit difficult to understand for all countries taking part in the war but sweden stayed neutral, more or less, during the war and a lot of people never figured out which propaganda to believe.

Then i started The Secret Place by Tana French. Started promising. She is a really good crime author. Can be warmly recommended for those interested in the genre.
 
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