Ronn Carroll

Ronn Carroll

  • Born: 1935-8-31
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  • Extended Reading
    • Emmanuel 2022-04-09 09:01:09

      If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me

      There are very few movies like this now. There is no earth-shattering love, no story of ups and downs, and no grand climax. It is just a story of decades of mail-order second-hand books between a New York writer Helen and a London bookstore. There are the streets of London, the poetry of Ye Ci, and...

    • Johnnie 2022-04-10 09:01:09

      Some things about book lovers (Ai Xiaoke)

      I especially doubt that the little book "84 Charing Street" can be adapted into a good movie, because it is not narrative at all, but a loose combination of some letters, some people on both sides of the world have some friendship for a few books, no I've met, I've never called, and I haven't had...

    • Emmie 2022-04-19 09:03:17

      "It's certainly good to know that some one so many miles away can be so kind and generous to people they haven't even seen." Four and a half stars, just a little slower.

    • Antonio 2022-04-13 09:01:06

      Whoever sends a brocade book in the cloud knows why they have ever met.

    84 Charing Cross Road quotes

    • Helene Hanff: Yorkshire pudding out of this world. We have nothing like it. I described it to someone as a high, curved, smooth, empty waffle.

    • Helene Hanff: I love used books that open to the page a previous owner read oftenest. When Hazlitt came, he opened to, "I hate to read new books." And I hollered, "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.