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Dirty Martini said:
Uptight English, foolish Americans, spa town, affairs, India, ennui, polo, suicide and madness?
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Why yes! That is the one - thanks DM :D I remember getting reet pissed off with one of the female characters
 
sojourner said:
Why yes! That is the one - thanks DM :D I remember getting reet pissed off with one of the female characters
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You've got a choice of three really -- Leonora the patient suffering Catholic wife, Florence the unfaithful status-obsessed American, or Nancy the quietly steaming ward.

Leonora is a magnificent character.
 
Dirty Martini said:
You've got a choice of three really -- Leonora the patient suffering Catholic wife, Florence the unfaithful status-obsessed American, or Nancy the quietly steaming ward.

Leonora is a magnificent character.
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It was Leonora!!! Name rings such a bell with me it must be :D
 
sojourner said:
It was Leonora!!! Name rings such a bell with me it must be :D
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I was really impressed with this novel. A sharper dissection of sexual relations would be hard to find in a novel that old. I might give some of his other stuff a go ...
 
Dirty Martini said:
I was really impressed with this novel. A sharper dissection of sexual relations would be hard to find in a novel that old. I might give some of his other stuff a go ...
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I always meant to read more of his stuff...be interested to see how you go on

I remember after reading this book, me and a very good mate were invited out by other mates, and spent the entire night discussing it and ignoring everyone else - oops :D
 
A Woman in Berlin by 'Anonymus'. A diary written by a German journalist over two months when the Russians invaded Berlin as the WWII was ending. Really gripping and very well written.
 
cyberfairy said:
Oh if you like dogs, that's really upsetting:(
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Ok Ms CF - I think you might have been thinking about a different book, cos there's no dogs, upsetting or otherwise, in The Good Doctor!!! Finished it yesterday, and zero canines.

Started The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A.M. Homes - it's a bookclub choice. Not a brilliant start, very woe-is-me navel-gazing, but we'll see. Thing is, the Border Trilogy is sat on me shelf, screaming READ ME I'M WAY MORE INTERESTING and it's taking immense self-will not to abandon current book
 
sojourner said:
Have you read much of his stuff?

I've got Foucaults Pendulum waiting to be read. A mate of mine loves his stuff
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It is a fantastic book, and one that rewards being read again and again. It is far more ambitious in scope and scale than 'In The Name Of The Rose', and it has some rather interesting jokes running through the text too.

I hope you enjoy it!

BB:)
 
Genghis Khan - life, death and resurrection by John Man.

really, really enjoying this. about 2/3 of the way through now. the research is brilliant and the little stories he tells about his adventures in doing the research are gems :cool:
 
obanite said:
Ooh, bought that a couple of months ago, it's in my queue :)
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Fabulous book. I cried on the bus when I finished it - felt like a right twonk :rolleyes:

I'm still reading the book I started a month ago (Go Tell it on the Mountain). But, in the meantime I have also started The Genius of Photography by Gerry Badger (I love that name :cool: ). I'm teh crap at reading at the moment - spending too long on facebook instead :oops:
 
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey - its excellent. Just read Jack Maggs by him also - which was pretty good (apart from the happy ending :rolleyes: )
 
Boogie Boy said:
It is a fantastic book, and one that rewards being read again and again. It is far more ambitious in scope and scale than 'In The Name Of The Rose', and it has some rather interesting jokes running through the text too.

I hope you enjoy it!

BB:)
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You think? It's one of my favourite books, but it's hardly 'much more ambitious' than NotR, both deal with essentially similar themes (all his novels are just philosophy masquerading as literature, to quote the back of Mysterious Flame of Queen Loanna - which I'm just reading. Very enjoyable, but much slighter, as his novels have become progressively. A shame, but there you go, he could never really do character development, but he does find great excuses as to why he cant!).

Rose is a better novel in many ways, i think, but Pendulum is much more fun if you are coming from a philosophy bent.
 
I've just finished Redemption Song, the biograhy of Joe Strummer by Chris Salewicz...at 630 pages it was a bit long, could've been a couple of hundred pages less i feel...Now i'm starting UNIT 731, by Peter Williams and David Wallace, a look at the Japanese WW2 camp where they carried out horrific and utterly pointless experiments on both military and civilian prisoners in a village in Manchuria.
 
sojourner said:
Ok Ms CF - I think you might have been thinking about a different book, cos there's no dogs, upsetting or otherwise, in The Good Doctor!!! Finished it yesterday, and zero canines.

Started The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir by A.M. Homes - it's a bookclub choice. Not a brilliant start, very woe-is-me navel-gazing, but we'll see. Thing is, the Border Trilogy is sat on me shelf, screaming READ ME I'M WAY MORE INTERESTING and it's taking immense self-will not to abandon current book
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Oh:oops: Think I must have been thinking about a different book by same author.
I am reading 'A Study In Scarlet', by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-tis ace so far and just finished the magnificent 'Be Near Me' by Andrew err Someone-Forgotten his surname and book back in library. Was about a priest in Scotland anyway and read it from start to finish yesterday afternoon. Beautiful use of language and sad and thought provoking dealing without giving too much away, paedophilia and class.
 
RenegadeDog said:
reading the first His Dark Materials book. Interesting.
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Quality

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I think it tends to divide readers into love and hate camps. Myself, I couldn't get enough of it, and raced to read the rest of the trilogy
 
In Cold Blood - Really brilliantly written.



sojourner said:
Have you read much of his stuff?
I've got Foucaults Pendulum waiting to be read. A mate of mine loves his stuff
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Oh, his last book [Queen amelda's blah blah, or whatever the fuck...] was fucking awful.
Pretentious Isn't the word.
It's just the most infuriatingly annoying, self satisfiyed, acadmeic, head up backside, obscure quote wank.
I took my copy back after 3 days and got a refund and was told I wasn't the first :D .
 
Pie 1 said:
In Cold Blood - Really brilliantly written.





Oh, his last book [Queen amelda's blah blah, or whatever the fuck...] was fucking awful.
Pretentious Isn't the word.
It's just the most infuriatingly annoying, self satisfiyed, acadmeic, head up backside, obscure quote wank.
I took my copy back after 3 days and got a refund and was told I wasn't the first :D .
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I rather like self satisfied academic wank
 
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