The American Book That Offended The British

Dominic Noble

Or any moment since alas

Pressed Between the Pages (Heather)

Turns out it kind of stings when the “white man’s burden” is turned back in on us. Pity they didn’t take that as a moment of enlightenment at the time.

Kenna

This made me think more critically about time travel novels, and it made me realize Outlander did a pretty good job of establishing a character who was incredibly useful as a war-weathered nurse and amateur botanist. I'll have to give this novel a go at some point when my reading list is a bit ... shorter.

AnetteCB

Belated, but just wanted to say that your shirt killed me ;) This book sounds like a lot of my time travel fantasies, tbh - my grand "plan" to fix history is to introduce the miasma theory of disease; because bad smelling air = sickness seems easier to sell than tiny invisible creatures being to blame ;)

Iago24

Terry Pratchett wrote once an excellent updated version of this story concept, a short story called Once & Future, in which a time traveller called Mervin gets stuck in a time period that resembles, but doesn't exactly match the Dark Ages, and decides that it could use a sword in the stone. Among other things, it taught me that making a simple electric generator is actually much easier than making a steam engine, since it won't blow up violently if you make a mistake. Unfortunately Pratchett never had the chance to expand it to a full length novel, as he had planned, which is a pity, since the tangent in which the story ends would have had massive potential.

Dominic Noble

One of the last great lines of the show *sighs*

Dominic Noble

Yeah, at some point for sure

Dominic Noble

He make the comparison himself a few times. He wasn't very subtle with the subtext which is probably why even I was able to see it lol

IT WAS ME Love the shirt. <3

so, are you planning to re- review Good Omens, now the TV show is out? No pressure, just interest :)

regina burks

The thing that really stands out to me is the bit about how the lower classes are treated, which feels a bit less like Mark Twain calling out the English and more him snubbing American Slaveowners who were insisting that it's totally their god given right to treat people this way.

Dom casually suddenly appearing with Wisp is the best. But I really want to read this now. Also, I recommend Jesusvideo, very strange take on the time-travel thing but works well. Also, its a german movie.

I do love the pure book reviews, especially when it's a book I love

Dominic Noble

Pifft, you sound like my doctor.

Dominic Noble

Sometimes I JUST wanna review the book.

Tachpmg

Am I the only one that worries about Dominic anytime he starts screaming

FYI - This was turned into a movie at least twice - (I'm only partway through the video, you might've mentioned this.) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041259/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097104/ I've only seen the first. It's also a Broadway musical - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_(musical) Yes, so is the 1949 movie but looking at the credits the movie had different composer and songs. But It's late and I don't feel like researching farther.