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Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable Audiobook by Max Hastings
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Title: Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable
Author: Max Hastings
Narrator: Max Hastings
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-18-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings, and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. Maxs father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TVs legendary 'Tonight' programme, while his mother edited 'Harpers Bazaar', became a famous columnist and wrote bestselling gardening books. One of Maxs grandfathers was a literary editor, while the other wrote plays and essays. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote poetry and became one of Maxs heroes. In this audiobook, the author brings together this remarkable cast of forebears - with guest appearances by a host of celebrities such as Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad and John Betjeman. By turns moving, dramatic and comic, the book portrays Maxs own childhood fraught with rows and explosions, in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight, and helps to explain why Max Hastings, whose family has produced more than 80 books over three generations, felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism.
Members Reviews:
A story of lost memories.
I loved this book particularly as I knew Max when I was a child. He has mentioned me as "my first girlfriend at the age of four had the unsurpassable name of Merelina Ponsonby". It is a good story evocative of a by-gone age. His description of his childhood and his bad behavior, his fathers adventures and his - very successful - but cold mother are so interesting to read about. He does not exaggerate either. His old Nanny (correct use of Nanny, not as the modern Granny name) are to me amusing, she was a great character and I still remember her over 50 years later. Nannies were our cornerstone of our lives in a world where our mothers did not feature much, and they were simply wonderful. They probably still are!
Max is an excellent writer and he "reads easily" and interestingly. I highly recommend this book.
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Title: Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable
Author: Max Hastings
Narrator: Max Hastings
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-18-11
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings, and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. Maxs father roamed the world for newspapers and as a presenter for BBC TVs legendary 'Tonight' programme, while his mother edited 'Harpers Bazaar', became a famous columnist and wrote bestselling gardening books. One of Maxs grandfathers was a literary editor, while the other wrote plays and essays. His great-uncle was an African hunter who wrote poetry and became one of Maxs heroes. In this audiobook, the author brings together this remarkable cast of forebears - with guest appearances by a host of celebrities such as Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad and John Betjeman. By turns moving, dramatic and comic, the book portrays Maxs own childhood fraught with rows and explosions, in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight, and helps to explain why Max Hastings, whose family has produced more than 80 books over three generations, felt bound to follow their path of high adventure and popular journalism.
Members Reviews:
A story of lost memories.
I loved this book particularly as I knew Max when I was a child. He has mentioned me as "my first girlfriend at the age of four had the unsurpassable name of Merelina Ponsonby". It is a good story evocative of a by-gone age. His description of his childhood and his bad behavior, his fathers adventures and his - very successful - but cold mother are so interesting to read about. He does not exaggerate either. His old Nanny (correct use of Nanny, not as the modern Granny name) are to me amusing, she was a great character and I still remember her over 50 years later. Nannies were our cornerstone of our lives in a world where our mothers did not feature much, and they were simply wonderful. They probably still are!
Max is an excellent writer and he "reads easily" and interestingly. I highly recommend this book.