tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057873.post110786525805560934..comments2024-03-28T05:38:06.409+05:30Comments on Dabbler: Pastoral - Nevil ShuteChenthilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11865750827704844908noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057873.post-83424679449392274552009-09-18T09:40:25.228+05:302009-09-18T09:40:25.228+05:30Chentil does not do justice to this superb book of...Chentil does not do justice to this superb book of Nevil Shute. This book would fire the imagination of youth who were students of the 60s or 70s. Having read the book in the 70s when the world was still filled with romantic ideals of heroism and ptriotism it struck me as a love-story that had its great moments eg. The Air hief Marshall overlooking the misuse of official machinery when he finds the wounded airman and Gervase enjoying their moments of romance and the strong characters who were lifelike in a gone by era like the landlady of the mansion who provides use of her property for the RAF pilots as part of her war effort.<br />The book is full of such inuendos and creates a vison of a beautiful wartime England (also something not there in todays concrete jungle of the UK)....<br />The book is not maybe Shutes best but even today I yearn to get a copy of it which till a decade ago was available with the British Council.<br />May Chentils tribe increase and may he read all the other of Shutes novels.<br />KK Menon<br />ChennaiUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05829421253231586201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057873.post-1136066225165085972006-01-01T03:27:00.000+05:302006-01-01T03:27:00.000+05:30the best book hes ever written for me is IN THE WE...the best book hes ever written for me is IN THE WET i have read all of his booksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057873.post-1108188431889456572005-02-12T11:37:00.000+05:302005-02-12T11:37:00.000+05:30This is the second time I am being told to pick up...This is the second time I am being told to pick up A Town Like Alice, Senthil. Will definitely read it soon. As you said Nevil Shute was a really under rated authorChenthilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11865750827704844908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5057873.post-1108149855798025142005-02-12T00:54:00.000+05:302005-02-12T00:54:00.000+05:30Nevile shute is a great author."A Town Like Alice"...Nevile shute is a great author."A Town Like Alice" is another beautiful novel which starts with two people meeting during WW2.nice romantic story.<br /><br />For me "On the Beach" is nevile shute's best novel.<br /><br />http://jackofall.blogspot.comjackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16216362525412682389noreply@blogger.com