The Big Read
Apr. 11th, 2003 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Apparently the Patriot is like marmite, you either like it or hate it. Which ever is cool.
Slight spoiler
But the scene where Mel Gibson takes out a squad of the redcoats still annoys me. Not because his infant sons are using guns but because I refuse to believe that two kiddiewinks and one grown man can take out a squad of well trained soldiers.
The only time I could believe in one man taking out a squad is when Alan Breck Stuart does it in 'Kidnapped'. Because he could.
Which brings me to the Big Read. The BBC are holding this vote to see the most popular book ever written and I'm trying to decide on one to vote for.
'Cause I like Kidnapped, but I like The Three Musketeers more. (Yes, my childhood reading was mainly made up of swashbucklers)
Then you've got Dune which is just incredible. Or 'Maurice' which burns with feeling.
Or 'Stark' which is probably still the best book Ben Elton has ever written. And it has Zimmerman.
Slight spoiler
But the scene where Mel Gibson takes out a squad of the redcoats still annoys me. Not because his infant sons are using guns but because I refuse to believe that two kiddiewinks and one grown man can take out a squad of well trained soldiers.
The only time I could believe in one man taking out a squad is when Alan Breck Stuart does it in 'Kidnapped'. Because he could.
Which brings me to the Big Read. The BBC are holding this vote to see the most popular book ever written and I'm trying to decide on one to vote for.
'Cause I like Kidnapped, but I like The Three Musketeers more. (Yes, my childhood reading was mainly made up of swashbucklers)
Then you've got Dune which is just incredible. Or 'Maurice' which burns with feeling.
Or 'Stark' which is probably still the best book Ben Elton has ever written. And it has Zimmerman.
