The Leopard - Feb 2019 Book Group discussion thread

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McGoohan
McGoohan
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11:13am, 29 Jan 2019
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McGoohan
Count Duckuloni di Borgia is an apparently urbane, aristocratic playboy by day, but by night he is infamous cat-burglar The Leopard! Desired by women, envied by men! His life might have continued in this way until he is contacted by Nikos Furiopolous, of the Greek resistance. Furiopolous recruits him in the fight against the fascist overlord Dr Calamari!

With kid sidekick, The Kitten, at his side, can The Leopard crack the case, save the world and be back at the baccarat tables before dawn?

Now read on...
Dvorak
Dvorak
Jan 2019
12:44pm, 29 Jan 2019
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Dvorak
That's an interesting, and quite possibly unique, reading of The Leopard. Maybe I should reread it
McGoohan
McGoohan
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12:45pm, 29 Jan 2019
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McGoohan
I think I got the main plot points across
Badger
Badger
Jan 2019
2:15pm, 29 Jan 2019
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Badger
I don't think I can have read the same translation.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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2:23pm, 29 Jan 2019
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McGoohan
You have to read between the lines
Diogenes
Diogenes
Jan 2019
2:33pm, 29 Jan 2019
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Diogenes
I thought a Leopard was someone from Leopardy, a small sovereign state that later became part of the unified Italy? I'm sure that's right.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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2:35pm, 29 Jan 2019
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McGoohan
Read the first chapter at lunch. He's just taken the Duchess Di Malfi's diamonds right from under the careless eyes of her bodyguards.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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2:36pm, 29 Jan 2019
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Oh my life's been in constant jeopardy
I wish I was somewhere more leopardy
Diogenes
Diogenes
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2:57pm, 29 Jan 2019
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Diogenes
Lombard. I was thinking of Lombard.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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2:59pm, 29 Jan 2019
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Diogenes
(Which, as everyone knows, is a roundabout in Croydon)

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Count Duckuloni di Borgia is an apparently urbane, aristocratic playboy by day, but by night he is infamous cat-burglar The Leotard! Desired by women, envied by men! His life might have continued in this way until he is contacted by Nikos Furiopolous, of the Greek resistance. Furiopolous recruits him in the fight against the fascist overlord Dr Calamari!

With kid sidekick, The Kitten, at his side, can The Leotard crack the case, save the world and be back at the baccarat tables before dawn?

Now read on...

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