Jeanette Winterston - famous novelist - Page 8

kestrelx · 25-03-2010, 18:00

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Originally Posted by Taggy

Is there a particular reason why she shouldn't be Jolly??

Best Regards - Taggy

No not really, I suppose it was a remarkable quality, and with all her money who wouldn't be

kestrelx · 25-03-2010, 18:04

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Originally Posted by wadey

"I couldn't help seeing that the charcter Jesse was just JW's alter ego."
I agree (having bought it on DVD) it's autobiographic
Here's a photo of the opening sequance
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rossend...y/4119988972/]

By the way that photo link doesn't go where it's supposed to. Don't they have to disguise the characte anyway just in case they get sued? Her parents probably could have sued her anyway for what she said about them. But I know that novelists have to be careful about copying from reality just in case someone sues them and no publisher will take on a book that they could end up getting sued over.

garinda · 25-03-2010, 19:00

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

By the way that photo link doesn't go where it's supposed to. Don't they have to disguise the characte anyway just in case they get sued? Her parents probably could have sued her anyway for what she said about them. But I know that novelists have to be careful about copying from reality just in case someone sues them and no publisher will take on a book that they could end up getting sued over.

I suppose the question of litigation depends on whether what she wrote, in a work of fiction, based on her life, was true or not.

I suppose only the people involved will know that.

StevenWaling · 26-03-2010, 11:20

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Her parents probably could have sued her anyway for what she said about them.

Seriously? And you don't think that an enforced exorcism might not be grounds for prosecution in itself?

Taggy · 26-03-2010, 14:30

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Originally Posted by StevenWaling

Seriously? And you don't think that an enforced exorcism might not be grounds for prosecution in itself?

Thats assuming that actually happened!!...As she says herself...its part autobiographical and part fiction, and obviously we dont dont which is which!!

Best Regards - Taggy

kestrelx · 27-03-2010, 11:57

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Originally Posted by garinda

I suppose the question of litigation depends on whether what she wrote, in a work of fiction, based on her life, was true or not.

I suppose only the people involved will know that.

She was on the box last night, Newsnight Review, I only caught the last few minutues.

I recall my mother told me back in the 80's, we lived on Water Street, that her father told her that they (her parents) were really upset by what she'd said about them. But they would not want to sue her as they didn't.

I only read the book around 2004 and I thought the writing was very compelling and well written - a page turner as they say but tried the second one "Sexing the Cherry" and I couldn't get into it.

garinda · 27-03-2010, 14:03

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

She was on the box last night, Newsnight Review, I only caught the last few minutues.

I recall my mother told me back in the 80's, we lived on Water Street, that her father told her that they (her parents) were really upset by what she'd said about them. But they would not want to sue her as they didn't.

I only read the book around 2004 and I thought the writing was very compelling and well written - a page turner as they say but tried the second one "Sexing the Cherry" and I couldn't get into it.

I saw it.

Her Accringtonian accent's still spot on, to say she's lived away from the area for the majority of her life.

She came across very well.

Intelligent and humorous.

StevenWaling · 28-03-2010, 15:22

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Originally Posted by Taggy

Thats assuming that actually happened!!...As she says herself...its part autobiographical and part fiction, and obviously we dont dont which is which!!

Best Regards - Taggy

If it's the Elim church on Blackburn Road she went to - I don't doubt it for a second. Bunch of nutters they were.

garinda · 28-03-2010, 16:09

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Originally Posted by StevenWaling

If it's the Elim church on Blackburn Road she went to - I don't doubt it for a second. Bunch of nutters they were.

Did you arrive at this judgement after attending there yourself?

Tealeaf · 28-03-2010, 19:18

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Originally Posted by garinda

I saw it.

I avoided it, thank god.

Her Accringtonian accent's still spot on, to say she's lived away from the area for the majority of her life.

I've lived away longer than she has and my accent is still spot on
She came across very well.

Eh? She's supposed to be a writer, so presumably she has a good command of the English language.
Intelligent and humorous.

Only by your measure .

I am now totally sick and tired of people praising the virtues of this woman on the simple basis that she came from Accy. I do not know how many of you are daily readers of the Times, but until very recently, Ms. Winterston had a fortnightly saturday column in the paper; as such, she took every opportunity to rubbish the town. Now, I don't know if her essay's are available on line, or if they are only available in hard copy; but irrespective I would suggest that those of you who view her has a great daughter of the town try and take a long hard look at what she has written and I have no doubt you will then revise your opinion.

garinda · 28-03-2010, 20:38

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

Only by your measure .

I am now totally sick and tired of people praising the virtues of this woman on the simple basis that she came from Accy. I do not know how many of you are daily readers of the Times, but until very recently, Ms. Winterston had a fortnightly saturday column in the paper; as such, she took every opportunity to rubbish the town. Now, I don't know if her essay's are available on line, or if they are only available in hard copy; but irrespective I would suggest that those of you who view her has a great daughter of the town try and take a long hard look at what she has written and I have no doubt you will then revise your opinion.

Haworth has the Brontes.

Accrington has Sapphic Jen.

Perhaps a whole tourist industry might spring up because of the association, and you could move back, dress up as one of her characters, and lead the masses on walking tours of notable literary sites.

Taggy · 28-03-2010, 20:40

Give me Mystic Meg any day!!!

Best Regards - Taggy

Tealeaf · 28-03-2010, 20:54

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Originally Posted by garinda

Haworth has the Brontes.

Accrington has Sapphic Jen.

Perhaps a whole tourist industry might spring up because of the association, and you could move back, dress up as one of her characters, and lead the masses on walking tours of notable literary sites.

It does not take too much imagination to think of several themes on which Accy could develop a little tourist trade; sadly, the twisted memories of some frustrated lesbian in exile is not one of them.

cashman · 28-03-2010, 22:45

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

It does not take too much imagination to think of several themes on which Accy could develop a little tourist trade; sadly, the twisted memories of some frustrated lesbian in exile is not one of them.

So can we take that as a No Tealeaf?

garinda · 28-03-2010, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I've lived away longer than she has and my accent is still spot on

Who you kiddin' guv'nor?

You now sound so cosmopolitanly metropolitan, it's like you were sired by Jim Davidson and Marie Lloyd.