Your analysis of Pinkie's complex character and the contrast with Ida was spot on. I loved your take on the moral and religious themes and how they shape the story. Your writing style is so engaging.
A brilliant film of a brilliant and terrifying book. I remember the first time I read it (maybe it was the first Greene I read?) and it was compelling but so claustrophobic; the urgency and the peril and the inevitability made it hard to breathe at times.
Claustrophobic is a brilliant word to describe it! It's a massively compelling read - I usually struggle to stop reading Greene anyway, but this one in particular
Lucy this is just maybe the best thing I’ve read in ages. I love this book also.
“Brighton Rock, is a metaphor for original sin:”
I think I could be falling in love with you here. Ha ha. 😊
Seriously it is fantastic and I’ll read everything you wrote now. Well done, sublime writing, the level of writing that makes people want to read it, that’s what most people don’t have, engaging, clever, lucid and beautiful.
Your analysis of Pinkie's complex character and the contrast with Ida was spot on. I loved your take on the moral and religious themes and how they shape the story. Your writing style is so engaging.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it - the moral and religious themes are by far the most interesting part of the book for me
A brilliant film of a brilliant and terrifying book. I remember the first time I read it (maybe it was the first Greene I read?) and it was compelling but so claustrophobic; the urgency and the peril and the inevitability made it hard to breathe at times.
Claustrophobic is a brilliant word to describe it! It's a massively compelling read - I usually struggle to stop reading Greene anyway, but this one in particular
Lucy this is just maybe the best thing I’ve read in ages. I love this book also.
“Brighton Rock, is a metaphor for original sin:”
I think I could be falling in love with you here. Ha ha. 😊
Seriously it is fantastic and I’ll read everything you wrote now. Well done, sublime writing, the level of writing that makes people want to read it, that’s what most people don’t have, engaging, clever, lucid and beautiful.