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Dear Reg, I googled the title of the book as I had never heard of it. I rarely read anything later than the Nineteenth Century. I wonder if there is anything in here I can use. Hmmmmm.
Reg, Reg, Reg. I mean, really. Somehow, I highly doubt our buddy Ignaz was reading about the wedding and suicides of Hitler and Eva Braun, or anything else about Nazi Germany, when out for a lark on the MHT bus. Tsk, tsk. No more than *you* were likely recently engrossed in a book about the bloody "misadventures" of the British Empire in India and elsewhere, or of the English in Scotland or Ireland, I should think-- as my quarter-Danish side helpfuly feels compelled to point out. :-) Who knows what world wars might have been fought over those scenarios, had the balance of power been different in the world, after all?? Ahem. But as it happens, I actually WAS reading about the very subjects you attributed to Iggi's perusal, and just yesterday morning, in the wee hours, in fact-- albeit scarcely for the first time. Still, I hadn't known that Crazy Eva got married in a navy dress with sequins, and killed herself in a black dress trimmed with a red rose design. Goody for her...not. Let's just say I felt truly sorry for the fate of the dog, Blondi. The ENTIRE fate, having to be the hound of Hitler, not just the fatal cyanide test. 'Twas all in the book *Endgame, 1945* by David Stafford of the University of Edinburgh (Little, Brown, & Co., 2007), which I recently obtained for info it contains about a certain personage I'm researching-- NEITHER the aforementioned bride nor groom, however, cringe. I already know WAY more than I ever care to about THEM. As for your joke about blonds having more fun, in that context, whether about the poor dog or the stereotypic "Aryan" or whatever: boo, hiss. Better luck next chapter!
According to the Stafford book I just cited in my last post, the native Austrian "Schicklgrubr" dictated his last will and testament at 11:30pm on April 28th. Soon afterwards, apparently on the 29th, he married the ditzy Deutsche, Eva Braun. Some "wedding night" they must have had, knowing they would both soon be dead! Too bad for them. To salvage a familiar and previously misused quote: Sic semper tyrannis!!! Some theories hold Adolf didn't kill himself but was actually "helped" to his death by some of his own SS men at the last. Oh, I do hope so!
Robin, I love 19th century lit also, but I wouldn't want to have lived without having read Agatha Christie, Carolyn Keene, P.G. Wodehouse, and scads of others! ;-) Somehow you've missed the massive media blitz about *Fifty Shades...* and sequels, and the ubiquitous and enthusiastic displays of them in stores. It seems to be the biggest thing since JK Rowling!
Hi Laurie, oh yes, i adore Agatha Christie, Carolyn Keene, P.G. Wodehouse, and many of the 20th Century American mystery writers, especially Ross McDonald. I also love those Lord Peter books. But still... I have read relatively little contemporary fiction.
The thing I love about the Kindle is all the fabulous stuff from 15th, 16th and 17th Century authors writing about ancient authors. You just don't get that in the average bookstore or local public library.
Yes, I definitely missed the Fifty Shades stuff. I never pay any attention to advertisements or commercials or media blitz's. I am totally out of the loop. I live in my own little world and although I am a boring conversationalist, I do find my own mind a fascinating place to be. LOL.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I have, of course, read a great deal of non-fiction from the 20th Century, mostly about art, history, philosophy and politics. And I love 20th Century plays, especially Tennessee Williams .... I guess I have read more post 19th Century stuff than I realized.
Dear me, I couldn't live without murder mysteries, especially British! Give me a title like *Death in a Teapot*, *The Corpse Sang 'Rule Britannia'*, *Murder by Welsh*, or *The Widdnes Strangler*, and I'm a happy girl! :-)
The thing I love about the Kindle is all the fabulous stuff from 15th, 16th and 17th Century authors writing about ancient authors. You just don't get that in the average bookstore or local public library.
Yes, I definitely missed the Fifty Shades stuff. I never pay any attention to advertisements or commercials or media blitz's. I am totally out of the loop. I live in my own little world and although I am a boring conversationalist, I do find my own mind a fascinating place to be. LOL.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I have, of course, read a great deal of non-fiction from the 20th Century, mostly about art, history, philosophy and politics. And I love 20th Century plays, especially Tennessee Williams .... I guess I have read more post 19th Century stuff than I realized.
PS Reg, remember what Basil Faulty said in Fawlty Towers (aka Fatty Owls, Flay Otters, etc) - "Don't mention the war!". Not that he took his own advice, or got away with it, as he thought..
OMG--Borje
I have a bad feeling about this. Yikes!
I have a bad feeling about this. Yikes!
Well, I just remembered Reg's word's when all seats were filled and the mysterious bus driver closed the doors: "No one gets on.. or off!"
Hey, is it just me or has anyone else noticed that their waistline is shrinking as we're going back through the years?
i start my slimming today..
Tee hee and a half! I was soooo skinny back then, sigh. What one calls model-thin. My figure has long since become a bit more matronly, and though I guess I shouldn't complain, the young girl that's still inside me doesn't like it one bit. She's decided I wanna be ultra-thin again for old times' sake. Looks like it's carrot cutlets and a trip to the gym for me! ;-)