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re: Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies coming to Broadway

Posted by: writerkev 03:54 pm EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies coming to Broadway - singleticket 02:42 pm EDT 09/10/14

I would typically love books like this, but I couldn't get through "Wolf Hall," mainly to do with the author's annoying idiosyncrasies in her use of pronouns. She would use "he" and "him" to refer to her main character, no matter how confusing that would make a sentence. Something like "The butcher chopped the lamb into thick cuts of meat, while he shouted and stood on one leg." That's just a crazy example to illustrate, but in a normal book that sentence would mean the butcher was shouting on one leg. In Hilary Mantel's book you're supposed to know the "his" refers to the other character. Except when it doesn't. You had to work it out for each reference which "he" she was referring to. I found it maddening.

Obviously a play will have none of those problems.


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Could not disagree more!

Posted by: frankm 05:13 pm EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies coming to Broadway - writerkev 03:54 pm EDT 09/10/14

The books are brilliantly conceived, deftly written and make for wonderfully entertaining reading. Her take on the history and personalities of that period are completely original and thought provoking. As for the pronouns: not a real problem. Certainly not for the Mann Booker judges...TWICE!


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re: Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies coming to Broadway

Posted by: writerkev 03:55 pm EDT 09/10/14
In reply to: re: Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies coming to Broadway - writerkev 03:54 pm EDT 09/10/14

Actually, the comma wouldn't have appeared in the made-up example I scribbled above. The comma would have made it too clear.


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