Read a book from every year of your life challenge
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Mar 2017
9:12am, 27 Mar 2017
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Badger
I remember the end of Smilla being a bit of a handbrake turn in style, or possibly even genre.
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Mar 2017
9:17am, 27 Mar 2017
28,628 posts
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McGoohan
"As Smilla stood there, in the slush..."
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Mar 2017
1:41pm, 27 Mar 2017
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LazyDaisy
I've finished 'Not my father's son' and really liked it. It's described as a 'family memoir', not an autobiography, which is an accurate description and probably why I liked it better than I would have done had it been a straightforward autobiography. Cumming is an engaging writer and it made a welcome change after the clinical Beryl B. Now gone back to 1958 and started on Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana. So far so OK. |
Mar 2017
1:43pm, 27 Mar 2017
22,371 posts
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HellsBells
I am not enjoying Wide Sargasso Sea, roll on 1967
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Mar 2017
1:49pm, 27 Mar 2017
13,389 posts
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Dvorak
"The Quincunx". Someday, when I have a lot of time, I may reread it. (Hang on, that would be now, actually.) I doubt if I could explain it even after that. I found it fascinating but also quite exasperating. The one thing I specifically remember from it is the term "gull scheme". |
Mar 2017
2:35pm, 27 Mar 2017
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DazTheSlug
I read Wide Sargasso Sea about 18 months ago, and on Goodreads gave it 3 Stars without a review and remember *nothing* about it (bad sign I suppose) - I'm actually intending to re-read it next year cos it's so short at least... 1967 I have down Michael Frayn's "Towards The End Of the Morning" |
Mar 2017
2:41pm, 27 Mar 2017
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Bintmcskint
I have no memory of it, Dvorak, other than I really enjoyed it and told all my friends to read it. And my copy fell apart. |
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Mar 2017
3:14pm, 27 Mar 2017
28,632 posts
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McGoohan
I read WSS last year and hated it pretty much. Our Man in Havana I loved however. |
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Mar 2017
3:36pm, 27 Mar 2017
22,374 posts
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HellsBells
I'm reassured it's not just me!
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Mar 2017
4:43pm, 27 Mar 2017
33,754 posts
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FleeCircus
Never read WSS but I enjoyed TTEOTM, Frayn is easy to read
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