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|  | Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Thread Started on Jan 21, 2007, 11:46pm » | |
I'm currently reading this, and it's pretty compelling.
Pity that an actor who gave me so much viewing pleasure has turned out to be such a self-loathing, tragic figure in "real life".
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #1 on Jan 25, 2007, 10:34pm » | |
I've love these Diaries and have poured over them for years. I flick through them when Im having a shit.
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #2 on Jan 25, 2007, 10:57pm » | |
Kenny would surely have approved
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #3 on Jan 26, 2007, 12:00am » | |
Yes, the diaries are magnificent, although the letters (in a separate volume) are completely missable.
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #4 on Jan 26, 2007, 4:01pm » | |
I've been wanting to buy this book for so long now but everytime I go to get it I always think it's not going to be worth the £15 it's priced at. Yes, I'm that tight at the moment. So do you all recommend it?
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #5 on Jan 28, 2007, 6:04pm » | |
Quote:| I've been wanting to buy this book for so long now but everytime I go to get it I always think it's not going to be worth the £15 it's priced at. Yes, I'm that tight at the moment. So do you all recommend it? |
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Absolutely.
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #6 on Jan 28, 2007, 6:21pm » | |
Quote:| I've been wanting to buy this book for so long now but everytime I go to get it I always think it's not going to be worth the £15 it's priced at. Yes, I'm that tight at the moment. So do you all recommend it? |
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I'd totally recommend it, its a fascinating read. I've read it twice and am contemplating a third read about now. Everytime a 'Carry On' film comes on I reach for the book to read his thoughts on making that particular one.
If you don't want to pay full price (and lets face who does for anything), check out some charity shops, I've seen copies in them before for a few quid.
Also recommened KW wise is a BBC Radio Collection 2 CD set called 'The Private World of Kenneth Williams'. Its part diaries and part archive radio clips of him and its pretty good. Its read by David Benson who I think played him in a stage play possibly based on Round The Horne a few years back? I found a mint condition copy of that in Oxfam in Ealing for £2.99, absolute bargin!
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #7 on Jan 29, 2007, 9:51am » | |
Cheers Ben and bittersweet, I was just unsure of whether or not it warranted a £15 price tag. I bought the Sharon Osbourne autobiography a while ago and regretted it almost as soon as I'd finished the first chapter. What tripe
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« Reply #8 on Jun 10, 2007, 12:31pm » | |
So it's a good book then? My sixth-form college library has it, and I thought it looked really interesting. (Though I did wonder how many people my age are even going to have a clue who Kenneth Williams is, much less care about his diaries...) I'll have to get it out at some point.
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #9 on Jun 10, 2007, 4:47pm » | |
Quote:| ...I did wonder how many people my age are even going to have a clue who Kenneth Williams is, much less care about his diaries... |
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That's something that really saddens me.
Growing up, I was as equally aware of people from the past as I was of who was current. I knew as much about, I dunno, Busby Berkley or Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald as I did about whoever was big at the time. That's just the way it was.
It means nowadays I can hold an equal conversation with someone 30 years my senior, but find it hard with someone perhaps 15 years younger than me.
During a conversation recently with a guy of 24, he asked, amazed, 'when was it illegal to be gay?' He nearly fainted when I told him it's just over 60 years since homosexuals were put into concentration camps and were considered the lowest of the low.
I'm all for living for the moment, but I do get sad when people think 'Heat' magazine is the be all and end all.
Williams Diaries are very bleak and shouldn't be read thinking they'll be full of witticisms, but they are fascinating.
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #10 on Jun 10, 2007, 6:14pm » | |
Quote:| I'll have to get it out at some point. |
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I just did a little 'fnar' at that, because I have a dirty mind, but it seems rather appropriate for a KW thread.
Anyway, you really shouldn't be thinking twice about paying £15 for it let alone borrowing it for free from a library!
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| | Re: Kenneth Williams' Diaries
« Reply #11 on Jun 10, 2007, 6:22pm » | |
True.
I was actually rather disturbed to find out I know more actors from around the 60s-80s than I know now - and I'm only 16 so it's not as if I was alive then. They also seem more interesting and more talented than those now, in my opinion.
And yes, it's a good deal being that it doesn't cost to borrow, but I had my friend with me at the time and I disturbed her by being so enthused over it, and so she threw a Red Dwarf novelisation at me instead so that we could leave. I do intend to go back and get it out at some point, though - especially as you all say it's good (I know nobody who's read it, so wasn't sure how worthwhile it was).
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