| Author | Message | ||
     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 188.146.171.194 |
Alan Sillitoe, R.I.P. This man shaped my love of books, a truly inspirational writer. A genuine loss to writing, books and literature. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is one of my favourite books. Life-changing, it showed me many things. The film adaptation is also a beautiful testament to the legacy of those 'Angry Young Men'. Though I think his work has a much more gentler tone, in no way reducing the 'social problems' he was addressing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/25/alan-sillitoe-writer-dies | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.229.104 |
Long Distance Runner is great - I've had a well-worn copy of that for years. A great shame, this - read about it earlier today... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.161.178 |
Oh no. That's terrible news. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I liked his writing but, I'm sorry, I don't care for Tony Richardson's film at all - a grab bag of derivations from the Nouvelle Vague, with a bit of Kurosawa chucked in. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I don't know Sillitoe's writing at all, other than by reputation, but I am a big fan of the movie and consider the mid 50s - mid 60s the most risk taking and artistically satisfying era of British cinema. From Hammer to all those glorious kitchen sink dramas it really was a golden period. |