Talk:Kane and Abel (novel)

message: The Bran is "captivated"?  - or is he captured?  Some-one who has read the book should check this.  The article could also use some cleaning up (e.g., bringing in consistentcy in tense).
*I've marked it for cleanup. Mostly the synopsis just needs its style polished, but there are a couple of obscure points and it should ideally be done by someone who has read the book. CalJW 07:52, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Captured?

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message: In "Plot summary", a particular episode about one of the characters saving the other in the Second World War is oddly repeated (the book sounds so dull I have forgotten which character): 
"Abel changes the name of the hotel from Richmond to Baron and builds up a successful hotel chain. By joining hands with Henry Osborne, who had by now entered politics, Abel plans to ruin Kane and his bank. Abel begets a daughter, named Florentyna in memory of his dead sister while Kane has a son, Richard. Abel during World War II would save Kane's life in France. He also divorces Zaphia when he returns home from the war.
Meanwhile Kane's bank and Lester's bank merge and a provision is made that anyone who has a share of 8% can summon board meetings. Abel tries desperately to obtain 8% of the bank's stock but Kane manages to thwart his attempts. They unknowingly meet each other many times throughout the novel. On one instance, whilst Kane and Abel are fighting in World War II, Abel saves Kane's life. "
Right. Abel saves Kane. Now I know. Twice... Whoever boldly took on such an article perhaps needs to tidy it up.
Incidentally, who wrote this above? > "the book is reaaly good it should be read i have not yet seen the video but reading the book i am sure it will be good. the book is very sophisticated and whoever reads it will benefit from it" 
?? Anyway, they sure come across like the perfect Jeffrey Archer reader.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.158.234.155 (talk) 22:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetition 

message: What on earth is a polewas? I can't find it in the OED, and there aren't any English Google results for the word apart from mirrors of this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.8.204.9 (talk) 15:35, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "polewas"? 

message: In 2009 Archer marked the 30th anniversary edition (83rd impression) as "recrafted", which apparently took him nine months. It is not quite clear in what way the book has changed, as the plot remains identical. Any secondary sources that could be used to describe the differences? JFW | T@lk 23:34, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recrafted? 

message: The plot summary section has a template message claiming that:
This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (April 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
I disagree.  It is useful to many readers of a long and complex novel to have a detailed description of the plot, rich with names and events to serve as a reference when a name is encountered whom the reader cannot quite place, or a plot detail is referenced which the reader cannot quite recall.  New readers of English, those with reading disabilities, people who have begun the novel and then suspended it, and people who have developed some degree of memory deficiency are among those who benefit from a detailed plot summary.  Indeed, some publishers provide descriptive lists of characters for very long or involved fictions.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:EA50:4D00:E1FA:B801:D1BD:3E6 (talk) 21:54, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disagree with template message that plot summary may be too long or detailed