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The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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Diogenes
Diogenes
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I don't hate him, but it was a long time since we met
Lizzie W
Lizzie W
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I don't hate him, I read Kingdom by the Sea straight after Notes From A Small Island as BB referenced it, and found PT a bit of a contrast - didn't write with the joy/affection that BB had done. But read more PT later. Mr W rates him.
Serendippily
Serendippily
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That’s the one I read Greppers. He was happy and I was happy at the start and then as he got more and more bored, so did I
Cerrertonia
Cerrertonia
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His later books all come across as fairly misanthropic and pessimistic. Like his friend VS Naipaul, the earlier books are the ones to go for IMO.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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I finished The Master & Margarita yesterday. I really don’t know what to say about it. I know some people absolutely love it. I can imagine that many people just don’t get it at all and might actively dislike it. Me, I’m ambivalent. There are aspects I like, and I can see it is clever and different, not to mention very funny at times, but overall I don’t think it works, it’s overall worth is less than the sum of its parts.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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What the above probably means is that I'm not cleverer enough to fully appreciate it, or else it's just not my cup of tea.
Serendippily
Serendippily
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Latter Dio. I read it having never heard of it and enjoyed it as being a lot more chipper than expected. I read Tolstoy quite young as my mum studied Anna Karenina when she educated in her 40s. Enjoyed it but it was a lot more weighty and confusing on the diminutive names. Thinking about it that’s how come I read Mayor of Casterbridge and a whole lot of other Hardy when I was 10: it was lying about.
Columba
Columba
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Not much enjoying the official book. Would really like to get back to Vol 2 of Karamazov, but I will plough on.
Deinonychus
Deinonychus
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I loved the Master and Margarita, probably my second favourite Russian book, after The Idiot.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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After a wee break I'm back on the audio book of A Portrait of the A as a YM. Listened to the whole of Chapter 4 this morning. Two chapters to go and it's dragging a bit. It is very heavy on religion. Not so much happens but you get a lot about the shifting mental state of Stephen Dedalus particularly his relationship with the church.

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