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Book Review Two Gentlemen Sharing - by William Corlett [message #54737]

Thu, 20 November 2008 08:27

paulj

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Can I reccommend the above to readers. I had a good weekend curled up with this watching the rain fall!! It was given to me by a friend so I dipped in and had a good laugh too.

Paul Jamison.

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780349108308/paratrk-16329/ltrec-t/Corlett%2C+William/Two+Gentlemen+Sharing/

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Re: Book Review Two Gentlemen Sharing - by William Corlett [message #54740 is a reply to message #54737]

Thu, 20 November 2008 09:01

timmy

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I'm with you on that one. But WHERE is that pub?

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: Book Review Two Gentlemen Sharing - by William Corlett [message #54741 is a reply to message #54737]

Thu, 20 November 2008 15:22

acam

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Yes, Paul, it is a bit of a slapstick laugh. He wrote a much better and emotionally more involving story called 'Now and Then' which I can recommend - particularly for people who like stories involving boarding schools. He also wrote some good children's books - notably a quartet called the Magician's House.

I heard about it from my friend Lewis; the one who slept in a dormitory where the housemaster used to come in and sit on some boys' beds and fondle them till they ejaculated. He SO wanted that to happen to him! It made me laugh to hear him tell it because the longing was so fresh in his telling.

And he did get what he wanted.

More to the point he was able to confirm that the Buckinghamshire boarding school was portrayed authentically by someone who knew what he was talking about.

William Corlett died quite recently and his obituary mentioned his lifelong companion - but although I usually fold such cuttings and put them in the appropriate book I seem not to have done it this time - at least it isn't in the book now. I wanted to remember the companion's name - but it has gone now I fear.

Love,
Anthony

Now and Then - by William Corlett [message #54742 is a reply to message #54741]

Thu, 20 November 2008 15:30

timmy

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Now and Then was a book that was instrumental in my being able to come to terms with my own schooldays. Nick recommended it to me and I resisted for a while. But I will be forever grateful.

I gave it to my mother to read.

Emotionless, she handed it back to me. She gained no insight from it at all, despite reading it.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: Now and Then - by William Corlett [message #54748 is a reply to message #54742]

Thu, 20 November 2008 19:43

paulj

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Hi the partner of 33 years,was Bryn Ellis, who, along with his sister Anne, was at his bedside when he died.

· William Harold Corlett, novelist and playwright, born October 8 1938; died August 16 2005

Re: Now and Then - by William Corlett [message #54753 is a reply to message #54748]

Thu, 20 November 2008 22:43

acam

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Thank you Paul. I shall try to remember Bryn Ellis.

Love,
Anthony

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