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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Wed Dec 25, 2019, 08:55 PM Dec 2019

Ever read John Buchan's book Greenmantle? He also wrote 39 Steps

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Ever read John Buchan's book Greenmantle? He also wrote 39 Steps (Original Post) bobbieinok Dec 2019 OP

No... Harker Dec 2019 #1

Oh, yes. An old favorite... First Speaker Dec 2019 #2

Something of a Renaissance man, Lord Tweedsmuir... malthaussen Dec 2019 #3

Harker

(14,012 posts)

1. No...

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2019, 09:33 PM

Dec 2019

but I did find a dusty copy of "The 39 Steps" atop a wardrobe in a London hotel room in 1986.

I haven't read that one either, sadly.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)

2. Oh, yes. An old favorite...

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Dec 25, 2019, 10:14 PM

Dec 2019

yes, Buchan has "dated", and some of his attitudes don't stand up well, but that's one of the reasons I find him interesting. Who wants to read writers whose attitudes always agree with yours? 39 Steps, by the way, is very, very different from the Hitchcock film...

malthaussen

(17,187 posts)

3. Something of a Renaissance man, Lord Tweedsmuir...

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2019, 01:00 PM

Dec 2019

... dunno how he found time to write so many books while being heavily involved in politics.

-- Mal

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