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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 5, 2006 13:53:15 GMT 9.5
Not no politics, I wouldn't say. It's set against the backdrop of the lead-up to 2000, against the death of Diana. It lends an atmosphere to the personal story - the sense of things ending and beginning again, or the bleakness of the world environment. Personal tradgedies alongside national ones, that sort of thing.
Poliakoff is very interested in politics, he says so in his interview, so I think it plays a part, but I don't think he has a political agenda with it. I don't think he's trying to say anything about the state of world politics, I think he's just using the tensions and atmosphere of the time to set the tone of the personal stories.
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Post by Incapability on Mar 5, 2006 19:54:50 GMT 9.5
sounds interesting. but alas, we can't get it over here ...
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Post by Anne Mette on Mar 5, 2006 23:51:49 GMT 9.5
We can't either. I need to get it off Amazon or something. Everything I know is that I just need it!
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Post by Mel on Mar 6, 2006 4:57:08 GMT 9.5
Ebay is my hero! LOL Don't worry, j/k
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 7, 2006 1:01:52 GMT 9.5
PM me, girls.
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Post by Mel on Mar 7, 2006 7:12:26 GMT 9.5
*scratches head* For what? *confuzzled*
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 8, 2006 5:24:46 GMT 9.5
S'ok, I'll do the PMing instead
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Post by Mel on Mar 8, 2006 8:53:15 GMT 9.5
Oh, I see!
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Post by Anne Mette on Mar 8, 2006 22:39:41 GMT 9.5
Me likeie That was the best idea of the week!
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Post by Mel on Mar 9, 2006 11:18:08 GMT 9.5
So, how did it do in England? Good reviews?
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Post by Anne Mette on Mar 9, 2006 23:14:56 GMT 9.5
Yeah I think so! But there again, I dunno why I am answering you, cause I don't really live in England.
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Post by Mel on Mar 10, 2006 7:26:48 GMT 9.5
You're much closer than I am.
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Post by Rita, Oh Yes! on Mar 10, 2006 11:53:41 GMT 9.5
I'm not entirely sure how it did here insofar as reviews - I have no TV, <Baldrick> "Oh, WOE IS ME!" </Baldrick>, and I don't buy the paper/magazines very often (I generally spend my money on food, getting into clubs and alcohol), but any critic who gave it a bad review deserves to beaten about the face with a wet fish.
So there. ;D
Edit: And right now, my sloganizer says "I quit smoking with Rita", to which I would like to add "because damn, we had way too much sex when we were both stoned".
*whistles and wanders off innocently and pretends her mind is NOT in the gutter*
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Post by Incapability on Mar 10, 2006 21:26:07 GMT 9.5
erhm... right. oh, it's so good to be among fellow loonies!
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Post by Anne Mette on Mar 11, 2006 0:44:57 GMT 9.5
Yes! I couln't have told my friends all my loony ideas, but I feel so free to do it on this board!
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