Thursday 17 July 2008
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Well, I did get to read one of my new books. Thanks to Kimba's comment, I chose The Scarlet Pimpernel. I liked the story, and I can see why it was made into movies. But I wasn't crazy about the writing. It was too short - the mystery is easily guessed, the background of the characters is summed up instead of told, etc. Some phrases are repeated too many times, and some of the descriptions of turbulent emotions remind me of Grace Livingston Hill. But it was entertaining, and did a good job of painting a mental picture; easy to visualize. I'm just glad I got to read the whole thing in a reasonable amount of time.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the few stories that I liked just as well as a movie. 99.9% of the time I think the book is much better. We did read this aloud way back in the dark ages when you were a little girl being home schooled.
mums
Ha. By the time I was homeschooling, I was a big girl. :-) The story seemed terribly familiar, but I didn't remember ever reading it. Did you edit out the language when you read it aloud?
Probably.
mums
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