Captain Corelli's Mandolin?

[fudgeflaps]

I've got a 2-year lag of books to get through, and I read this the other week.

It is a beautiful story, and despite people saying it is not an easy read, I enjoyed it immensely. It's just that the author is foreign and has a very long-winded turn-of-phrase: one sentence coud be a half-page paragraph long! Yet nice and descriptive with it.

Anyone else here read it, or know of any other good books by Louis de Bernieres?


If you want a difficult read, try Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce with a hangover!! Try it.....

[mart]

The only thing "foreign" about him is his name.

"Novelist Louis de Berni?res was born in London in 1954. He joined the army at 18 but left after spending four months at Sandhurst. After graduating from the Victoria University of Manchester, he took a postgraduate certificate in Education at Leicester Polytechnic and obtained his MA at the University of London. "

But don't see the film. I don't know why the producer bothered to get involved with the project since there was a great kerfuffle about what de Bernieres said (correctly imho) about the Communist guerillas.

Mart

[Porn crackers]

My wife said the book was a very hard read especially the first part. However we both really enjoyed the Film and recommend it....

PC

[Jacques]

The film was made on Cephalonia and down in Skala there is an outdoor cinema / bar / lounge thing on the beach which shows the film every Friday night.

So I thought I'd get some brownie points from 'Mrs. Jacques' and do the romantic meal followed by the film on a beach where it was made.

I was bored rigid and fell asleep. Needless to say I did not get 'any' that night except greif!!!

[Spook]

Top book - poor film.

I didn't enjoy his recent book - Birds Without Wings, set in WW1 Turkey.

But his trilogy of South American books - with strange titles along the lines of Senor Vivo & the Cocoa Lord - are well worth reading. But much better if they're read in the correct order (which I failed to do).

I guess that Amazon should give details of the correct order.

[one eyed jack]

I remember enjoying this film on the big screen but not enough to add to my dvd collection.

[mart]

Hope I'm not stating the obvious but the novel is about actual events on that island during WWII.

Mart

[steve56]

yes a good film it was on tv a few years back i liked it too.r

[brooks]

I know it's not really part of the topic and it's not by Louis de Bernieres but it does come under the 'difficult read but stick with' category.

The Time Traveller's Wife was a great book. The best book I have read for such a long time.

I'd recommend that little sucker to anyone.

[Pervert]

Yeah, the Time-Traveler's Wife was a good read. I'd also recommend The Shadow Of The Wind, a great book by a Spanish author, Carlos Ruiz Zafon.