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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2018, 12:12:34 AM

Title: V S Naipaul dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2018, 12:12:34 AM

Hugely interesting writer.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-british-author-dies-aged-85?CMP=twt_gu

Title: Re: V S Naipaul dead
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 12, 2018, 12:50:31 AM

Never read any of his works - but he had a way with words:

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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

Title: Re: V S Naipaul dead
Post by: Robbie on August 12, 2018, 10:56:04 PM

Quote from: Trentvoyager on August 12, 2018, 12:50:31 AM

Never read any of his works - but he had a way with words:
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

As demonstrated by Boris Johnson.

Title: Re: V S Naipaul dead
Post by: Dicky Underpants on August 13, 2018, 04:54:43 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on August 12, 2018, 12:12:34 AM

Hugely interesting writer.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/11/vs-naipaul-british-author-dies-aged-85?CMP=twt_gu

Read two of his books on India - very perceptive, and very critical. Perhaps unjustly so.