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World-renowned playwright and exotic dancer. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk
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Oh my god, I love that this is actually a thing!!
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You are today’s winner!
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Depends whether your room is a hotel room or you just have a minibar in your own bedroom.
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Once again, your optimism has left you empty-handed.
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Another clue…
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I believe Pete Hegseth will be making this an imminent reality.
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Stunning isn’t it?
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Just getting in before the deadline: HAPPY BIRTHDAY GORGEOUS YOU!!! xxxxxx
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You are tonight’s WINNER.
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God you’re good.
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We’ve noticed, Kierkegaard.
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At the last minute I couldn’t use my ticket for this and was deeply envious of all the reports the next day so I am beyond thrilled this film exists and have bought. Thank you.
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It’s also a quick read (170pp) and beautifully translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Like all books in the New York Review Books series, it’s a lovely object, beautifully typeset on creamy pages. Strong recommend.
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It’s also a realist novel about realism, about the dangers of idealism but also the cruelty of cynical realism. It’s a beautiful novel and the last pages are breathtaking in their plausible brutality. The last eight words of the novel are shattering.
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Pérez Galdós also takes you into the self-deceiving predatory mind of Don Lope and his slow campaign to win Tristana back. I think it would be wrong to call this a feminist novel, but it’s a novel that lays bare patriarchal patterns of thought unflinchingly.
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So far, so generic, but the journey of the novel is intense and shattering. It takes you right into her own frenzied idealising imagination (there are hints of Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina here) which are BOTH exhilarating and deranged.
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Tristana is an orphaned girl who is taken in by the ageing roué Don Lope who seduces her. However, she is awakening as a woman and adult and she falls for the handsome young painter Horacio Diaz…
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I’ve just read Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós which has blown me away. Published in 1892, it’s a Spanish realist novel, though its realism is suffused with riddles and irony and the emotional impact is devastating.
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Jim Lea great in that movie, isn't he? Kind of like the way Ringo steals the second half of A Hard Day's Night.
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Much MUCH nicer!
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Grinny by Nicholas Fisk scared me so much aged 9 that I put it spine facing inwards at the bottom of a pile of books in my cupboard so I wouldn’t even see the title and be reminded.
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Totally agreed. A dumb, funny carnival of ridiculously enjoyable nonsense. Nothing to dislike, loads to like.