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A Single Man
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bookshelves: isherwoolf, favorites
Jan 21, 2015
bookshelves: isherwoolf, favorites
Read 4 times. Last read March 14, 2024 to March 15, 2024.
Oh, Colin Firth (sir), you are just perfect in every (single) way, and Julianne, can I become you in this film? With that eyeliner an inch thick. Let's all get drunk and dance to 'Green Onions' together. What a name for a song, right? And I don't even dance.
Is that Don Draper on the phone? Ask to speak to Betty! And Mary's husband, long before Downton Abbey, with Nicholas Hoult and his Justin Bieber hair. (Can we please start calling it Kenny/Nicholas Hoult hair?) And that sweater! Where do I get one? A Nicholas Hoult, I mean, but I'd settle for a sweater, I guess. Let's not forget the scene with John Kortajarena and Janet Leigh—absolute perfection—wait, this isn't IMDB, is it?
Of course you must read the book—it'll tear your heart to shreds, but you'll turn the last page knowing that two/three years down the line you'll offer your heart on a silver platter so that Isherwood can rip it to pieces once again. Doris? Doris, who? I don't remember seeing her in the film—seriously, read the book. And then see the Tom Ford adaptation. No book I love more than this one. Swoon!
Is that Don Draper on the phone? Ask to speak to Betty! And Mary's husband, long before Downton Abbey, with Nicholas Hoult and his Justin Bieber hair. (Can we please start calling it Kenny/Nicholas Hoult hair?) And that sweater! Where do I get one? A Nicholas Hoult, I mean, but I'd settle for a sweater, I guess. Let's not forget the scene with John Kortajarena and Janet Leigh—absolute perfection—wait, this isn't IMDB, is it?
Of course you must read the book—it'll tear your heart to shreds, but you'll turn the last page knowing that two/three years down the line you'll offer your heart on a silver platter so that Isherwood can rip it to pieces once again. Doris? Doris, who? I don't remember seeing her in the film—seriously, read the book. And then see the Tom Ford adaptation. No book I love more than this one. Swoon!
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January 21, 2015
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March 25, 2017
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June 25, 2020
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June 26, 2020
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June 27, 2020
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"“And, of course, persecution itself is always wrong; I’m sure we all agree there. . . . But, the worst of it is, we now run into another liberal heresy. Because the persecuting majority is vile, says the liberal, therefore the persecuted minority must be stainlessly pure. Can’t you see what nonsense that is? What’s to prevent the bad from being persecuted by the worse?”"
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June 28, 2020
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"“Hardly more than a month ago [...] they were cramming the markets, buying the shelves bare of beans, rice and other foodstuffs, utterly useless, most of them, for air-raid-shelter-cookery because they can’t be prepared without pints of water. Well, the shoppers were spared - this time. [...] they never knew what didn’t hit them. No doubt, because of that panic buying, they have less money now for gifts.”"
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June 29, 2020
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"At the table next to him, two other unhypnotized nonconformists, an elderly couple who belong to the last handful of surviving colonists, are practising their way of love...You old bag, you old prick, you old bitch...rage without resentment, abuse without venom. This is how it will be for them, till the end. Let’s hope they will never be parted, but die in the same hour of the same night, in their beer-stained bed."
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November 19, 2022
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March 15, 2024
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Mar 28, 2020 03:09PM
Thanks for the review! I hope I’ll soon find a place to wedge this in amongst the several hundred other titles I’d like to read.
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Brilliant film, I will hopefully get to read the book some time soon. I’m new to Good Reads but am enjoying your reviews so far!
Daniel wrote: "Brilliant film, I will hopefully get to read the book some time soon. I’m new to Good Reads but am enjoying your reviews so far!"Hopefully your TBR list will soon be as out of control as mine. Goodreads tends to have that effect!
such a great movie! one of my favorite scenes is the one when Colin and Julianne are dancing, julianne's dress with that cape and Colin's suit!!! fab!
One of my favorite books and movies of all time. Truly formative.
Love the book and love the movie too despite the differences. Ahhh. Thanks for bringing it all back!
Uno dei miei libri preferiti in assoluto (e anche uno dei miei film preferiti in assoluto)!
I just finished reading this, and you're right about its effect on the heart. Now off to watch the film.
If you mention Colon Firth in a book review, you totally get my attention toon but if you add in eye liner and Don Draper? You have my attention, a like and my accolades for coolest book review today... 😎
Love the film, gotta get to this.
Great review, and yes, 5-star brilliant. And fantastic film.
Funny and nice review. Will need to read the book :)
