The Field of the Cloth of Gold - Book Group Discussion Thread
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Nov 2017
1:22pm, 27 Nov 2017
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Columba
I think you just have to take Magnus Mills at face value, - while noting all the tangential references. Don't look for Messages or Meanings; though if they happen to jump out at you, so be it.
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Nov 2017
8:54am, 29 Nov 2017
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GregP
Sorry - somewhere about half way or just clicked. Now reading ever-so-slowly to eke our the last few chapters. Tremendous fun.
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Nov 2017
9:15am, 29 Nov 2017
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GregP
Let’s try that again. ——- Sorry - somewhere about half way or so it just clicked. Now reading ever-so-slowly to eke our the last few chapters. Tremendous fun. |
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Nov 2017
8:10pm, 29 Nov 2017
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GregP
All done. I gave it 8 here, 4 on Goodreads. Goodreads review below: It took a while to tune in to the story and stop 'noticing' the lack of internal logic. Once I'd cleared that hurdle - and stopped worrying about who was cutting the grass and why the biscuits didn't go soft - I loved it. Sinisterly innocent. Or innocently sinister. Or both. Great fun. |
Nov 2017
8:11pm, 29 Nov 2017
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McGoohan
Did you read Maintenance of Headway?
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Nov 2017
8:14pm, 29 Nov 2017
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Night-owl
Wow is this the most engaging book review thread ever
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Nov 2017
8:17pm, 29 Nov 2017
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GregP
No. Should I have done? After all this fantastical whimsy the next two on my 'to read' pile involve respectively space ships (in the guise of an 800 page novella by Alastair Reynolds) or a thriller featuring a lead character who is Very Tall and indeed All Man. Decisions, decisions. |
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Nov 2017
8:19pm, 29 Nov 2017
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GregP
[McG - you may be amused to learn that I was reading it in the dentist waiting room this morning and exclaimed "stone me it's John the Baptist" out loud ~blush emoticon~]
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Nov 2017
8:30pm, 29 Nov 2017
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McGoohan
No, the reason being I'm going to mildly spoilerise TMoH in my review of TFOTCOG
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Nov 2017
8:31pm, 29 Nov 2017
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McGoohan
Only 800 pages from Reynolds? He's letting the side down a bit.
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