{"id":2040,"date":"2012-12-29T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2012-12-29T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T17:01:39","slug":"hello-goodbye-hello-a-circle-of-101-remarkable-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/hello-goodbye-hello-a-circle-of-101-remarkable-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/145168360X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=145168360X\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2041\" style=\"margin: 0px 30px 30px 0px;\" alt=\"Hello\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hello.jpg\" width=\"105\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hello.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Hello-65x100.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/><\/a>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/145168360X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=145168360X\" target=\"_blank\">Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings<\/a> Craig Brown chronicles the encounters of famous people.\u00a0 What makes the book so interesting, aside from the fact that it&#8217;s all true, is the way the stories are linked.\u00a0 In one section Person A will meet Person B.\u00a0 In the next, Person B will have a chance encounter with Person C.<\/p>\n<p>The book starts and ends with Adolf Hitler.\u00a0 In between are people like Madonna, Nancy Reagan, Salvador Dali, Sigmund Freud and a slew of others.\u00a0 I was happy to note that there are numerous writers included in the book.\u00a0 Some of the authors included are Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, George\u00a0 Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Hello Goodbye Hello <\/i>is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, a book that has been hailed by reviewers in London as \u201chowlingly funny\u201d (<i>The Spectator<\/i>), \u201coriginal and a complete delight\u201d (<i>The Sunday Times<\/i>), and \u201crich and hugely enjoyable\u201d (<i>The Guardian<\/i>). Or, as the <i>London Evening Standard <\/i>put it, \u201cthe truth and nothing but the plain, bonkers, howling truth . . . It is partly a huge karmic parlour game, partly a dance to the music of chaos\u2014and only the genius of Craig Brown could have produced it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hello Goodbye Hello: A Circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings Craig Brown chronicles the encounters of famous people.\u00a0 What makes the book so interesting, aside from the fact that it&#8217;s all true, is the way the stories are linked.\u00a0 In <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,269,326,279,172],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-george-bernard-shaw","tag-h-g-wells","tag-james-joyce","tag-oscar-wilde"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}