Talk:The Leap
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Novels, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to narrative novels, novellas, novelettes and short stories on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions. | ||
| Start | This article has been rated as Start-Class. | ||
| Low | This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale. | ||
 |
This article has an infobox template in need of a Cover! (prefer 1st edition) | ||
 |
This article is supported by the Fantasy task force. (with unknown importance) | ||
|
Assessment comments
|
|||
I hope this is a helpful improvement. I couldn't resist the terrible pun:
- The story ends with James saving Charlie from unwittingly taking her own life, and she finally realises what she was sleepwalking into.
It didn't sound quite right to me when I wrote it, but on second thoughts I rather like it. If the humour isn't appropriate, I guess I'll just have to put up with it being removed, but I'd appreciate it if a justification was given (on this page).
- -Alan
Contents |
[edit] I edited what Alan wrote
I didn't have any problems with what Alan wrote but I replaced most of it with an official intro to the book from Jonathan Stroud's official site. I did, however move some of it to another topic in the article.
Goodyfun (talk) 20:23, 2 March 2008 (UTC)goodyfun
[edit] Disambiguation page needed
Can someone who is logged in create a disambiguation page for books having the same name?
The Leap (1984) is also a book that was written by Bill Hopkins and published by Deverell & Birdsey in 1959. A first edition copy is difficult to obtain because most of the print run was recalled by the publisher and destroyed. Reviewers found a lot to object about, and the publishers must have been so embarrassed that they issued a general recall. The edition that was printed 25 years later (in 1984) is, accordingly, easier to find, and commands for that reason a lesser price, and is considered less collectable.
Bill Hopkin's book details the ambitions of a ruthless British politician who arranges the assassination of a fellow candidate seeking the nomination of his party to parliament. In order to facilitate the assassination, he attempts to construct an alibi where he is a hundred miles away when a bomb goes off.
It takes its name from the self-sacrifical act of the politician's girlfriend, who leaps out of a boat to rescue him, as he is on the verge of drowning, but when it comes time to reciprocate, the hero of the story fails to do so, and so allows (or, arguably, causes) his girlfriend to drown.
[edit] I've tried my best to add as much info as I could to this article
There's still more I might like to add to this page, but I'm not sure how much of a stub this article is anymore. It also has an infobox template now.
Goodyfun (talk) 20:14, 2 March 2008 (UTC)goodyfun
[edit] WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 13:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
