tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post651670251183948655..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: The Happy Numbers of Julius MilesJim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-65258431723582507062012-06-13T16:03:31.134+01:002012-06-13T16:03:31.134+01:00For God's sake, Annie, how did I get that wron...For God's sake, <b>Annie</b>, how did I get that wrong? It's fixed and thank you for pointing out the error of my ways.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-48597700215891659362012-06-13T11:54:32.002+01:002012-06-13T11:54:32.002+01:00Great review, comme d'habitude. :) You had m...Great review, <i>comme d'habitude</i>. :) You had me at Felicity's musings-on-memory quote.<br /><br />By the way, one of the author's "three daughters" ... is actually a son (his firstborn, a boy named Milo). Cute kids, and an interesting article from that link as well. Thanks.awynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01541564613932885469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-50342622996950629132012-06-12T12:43:08.942+01:002012-06-12T12:43:08.942+01:00All I can imagine, Dave, is that the paragraphs I ...All I can imagine, <b>Dave</b>, is that the paragraphs I skimmed are the ones that will excite you. Not that there were many but I’m a long way away from maths despite the fact I was in the top maths class at school. I took Statistics at college—thought I’d love it but actually hated it (I was the same with accounting). What the course did teach me was now misleading statistics can be. All you have to do is stick an ‘ONLY’ in front of them and us poor punters are confused: ONLY 25% fat – yeah, that sounds healthy. To be totally honest there’s not much about gods in the book, major or minor. I probably say more in my article than he says in the whole novel. It was a book I enjoyed despite its flaws but then all you have to say to me is “flawed masterpiece” and I’m intrigued. Felicity is a great creation. I would have been tickled pink to have thought her up. <br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-1578699981436134832012-06-12T12:03:42.272+01:002012-06-12T12:03:42.272+01:00This does sound like the book for me. Not sure abo...This does sound like the book for me. Not sure about minor gods and that sort of thing , but the fibonacci sequences and complex and imaginary numbers did it for me. Sounds too good to be missed.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-81622039856737203712012-06-10T14:03:34.768+01:002012-06-10T14:03:34.768+01:00They say that there’s no story without conflict, K...They say that there’s no story without conflict, <b>Ken</b>, and, up to a point, I suppose that’s true which is where we get the whole antagonist-protagonist dynamic but then we get films like <i>Cast Away</i> where there is only one person there and the only ‘antagonists’ he has to deal with are of an abstract variety, his inner demons. But the whole story rests on the fact that things have gone wrong and need to get put right. Of course you <i>can</i> envisage a scenario where things work out rather well after they’ve gone wrong—I’m thinking about <i> The Admirable Crichton </i> here—but what keeps things going there is humour. Humour often fills in conflict because so much humour is all about things going wrong or being misunderstood. <br /><br />I think this is one you would like, Ken. I’d send you my copy but this is one I’d rather like to hang onto and it’s been a while since I’ve read a book like that.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-20858069227575892132012-06-10T12:19:09.230+01:002012-06-10T12:19:09.230+01:00This sounds good. I sometimes judge a writer by hi...This sounds good. I sometimes judge a writer by his influences and his are sound. :)<br /><br />Your sentence 'It wouldn’t be much of a book if things weren’t to go wrong.' is yet another sound piece of writing advice that not everybody knows.Ken Armstronghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-35054871047195400772012-06-10T10:12:59.455+01:002012-06-10T10:12:59.455+01:00Thank you, seymourblogger. Nice of you to say so.Thank you, <b>seymourblogger</b>. Nice of you to say so.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-14578285867452177862012-06-10T06:08:09.021+01:002012-06-10T06:08:09.021+01:00I always look forward to your latest post. Thank y...I always look forward to your latest post. Thank you.seymourbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02843717286012748265noreply@blogger.com