The Mistletoe Murder - Book Group Discussion Thread
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Dec 2017
8:40am, 8 Dec 2017
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McGoohan
I'm sorry Miss Eltoe I am for real Didn't mean to make your daughter cry I apologise a trillion times So sang Andre 3000 of Outkast. He'd just read The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P D James. He's given us his review, now give us yours. Whatcha think? |
Dec 2017
8:58am, 8 Dec 2017
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GregP
Do we review a story at a time or do we wait and review the book as a whole?
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Dec 2017
9:01am, 8 Dec 2017
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McGoohan
Whatever provides buoyancy for your sailing vessel
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Dec 2017
9:18am, 8 Dec 2017
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GregP
Fine. Then I can exclusively reveal that I have read the first story and was entirely whelmed.
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Dec 2017
9:19am, 8 Dec 2017
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McGoohan
Should I have done 4 polls? So we could assign degrees of whelming to each one?
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Dec 2017
9:32am, 8 Dec 2017
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GregP
On a three card GT/BT/T (Good Thing / Bad Thing / Thing) scale it was definitely A Thing.
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Dec 2017
9:36am, 8 Dec 2017
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GregP
On a five card system (VBT/BT/T/GT/VGT) it still ranks a Thing, actually.
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Dec 2017
3:48pm, 8 Dec 2017
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Badger
I am reading story 1. I just have to step in here to admire "given half a chance, he would have pawed me and assessed my second hand value." Clever.
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Dec 2017
8:41am, 9 Dec 2017
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GregP
I have finished story two and remain whelmed.
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Dec 2017
8:43am, 9 Dec 2017
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GregP
[the book will always score well with me because of the charming events of last Saturday morning, with Badgo and Serrers alerting me to the choice on twitter when I was within sight of Ye Bintshoppe]
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