tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post4466853255117751312..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': ReviewingMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-62842088561060776192008-03-14T22:51:00.000+00:002008-03-14T22:51:00.000+00:00I very much agree about 'Hawksmoor'. I read it in ...I very much agree about 'Hawksmoor'. I read it in a rush shortly after it came out and didn't really do it justice. I'd like to linger over it some day - but when, I'm not sure!Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-59702114056487765142008-03-14T04:36:00.000+00:002008-03-14T04:36:00.000+00:00Thanks Martin! I sketch and create jewellery far ...Thanks Martin! I sketch and create jewellery far more than I write nowadays; I was an English literature/theatre graduate in days gone by. Sadly the only way to improve one's writing is to write! But I have definitely enjoyed reading your thoughts and observations on the process of books, writing, and the reviews, and I will be visiting quite a lot, I can tell already.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of books that bear reading again just to look at it with the benefit of some hindsight, I'm going through Peter Ackroyd's 'Hawksmoor' again. I find it fascinating and worth reading, but as to my actual -judgement- of it...well. I think I'll need another 2-3 reads to be sure. There's such a lot of subtlety and cross-currents going on in it, one read really isn't enough!<BR/><BR/>--ShukuShukuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11258042395311417934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-1363406894756574552008-03-13T23:01:00.000+00:002008-03-13T23:01:00.000+00:00Neither confused nor disjointed, Shuku. Hindsight ...Neither confused nor disjointed, Shuku. Hindsight is certainly a useful thing! I like your blog, by the way with all those sketches in particular.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-68070645832119356392008-03-13T18:32:00.000+00:002008-03-13T18:32:00.000+00:00I think that hindsight and the benefit of an entir...I think that hindsight and the benefit of an entire body of work makes it easier to review old books because, as you say, there's both context in the socio-historical sense and the writer's overall output. Classics of every genre have been around enough to be established, after all! <BR/><BR/>As far as judging by different standards though, that's one of those tricky subjective questions. The seminal works of each genre/period provide some sort of a guideline, but in the end, it's really dependent on the attitudes and reading tastes of a particular generation that's reviewing the book. <BR/><BR/>My rather confused and disjointed opinion, anyway!Shukuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11258042395311417934noreply@blogger.com