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| Golding is simply a brilliant writer, and this is him at the peak of his powers - a near-perfect example of the modern novel and its elaboration of the general in the particular. The characterisation and dialogue are wonderful; the prose in general i ...more | |
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| This is a monumental scholarly achievement - thoroughly admirable for its ambition and depth. Nobody else in the 20th century wrote work of this brilliance and density or profundity of thought, let alone the 21st. Does he push the argument too far? Y ...more | |
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| This book has essentially no redeeming features, except for its brevity. The characters are actively dislikable; what they see in each other, apart from looks, is never explained; the plot is completely implausible; the resolution is laughably swift ...more | |
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| This began as a four-star book and ended as a two. So I'll split the difference and call it a three. There is no denying Roth's skill as a writer. But, simply put, the joke wears thin after 250 pages, and in the end spending time in Portnoy's company ...more | |
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| This is not quite at the same high standard as its prequel (which is I think one of the best books of immediate political history ever written), but this is perhaps a consequence the rather messy nature of the period involved, in which two big events ...more | |
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| A sinister and mad book, which achieves a bizarre synthesis of liberalism and Marxism with implications that are profoundly bleak: total state control of every aspect of public and private life. | |
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| This is not written in beautiful, considered, Robert Caro-esque prose, but its immediacy and brio more than make up for it. It captures the period perfectly and is highly illuminating and, often, hilarious. It is impossible to imagine that in-the-mom ...more | |
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| This is simply one of the finest literary thrillers I have ever read. It's a classic of that genre - beautifully written but full of page-turning brio and melodrama, and wonderfully psychologically plausible. Cormac McCarthy eat your heart out. ...more | |
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| This is a psychologically rich, often disturbing, often moving, perfectly paced and at times amusingly melodramatic masterpiece. The author's personal sins, which if the stories about her are true are extremely serious, don't detract from that - I th ...more | |
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| Most academic monographs should never have been written and have little to offer except to their author's CV, but this is one of the rare exceptions: one that is truly worth reading. ...more | |