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Mark Carew
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JM Coetzee, Herman Hesse, Paul Auster
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The world of HP Lovecraft to be an investigator.
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The Book of Alexander
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Beyond The North Wind
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2012
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| Thrilling, strange and delightful at first, then rather bonkers with all the reveals of the secret policemen, then quite psychedelic at the end with the chase. Reminded me of the adventures of Tin Tin with men in bowler hats chasing the master crimin ...more | |
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| I liked the close, first-person narration which unwound like the spools of thread bought at great expense and to Jatgeir’s shame (the thread being one very long sentence) and I thought that was the point of the style, until the narrators of acts two ...more | |
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Astonishing. Actually brought tears to my eyes when I started reading the first chapter on a train. Had to put the book down it was so good and I wanted to savour it. Loved the concept, speculative and effective. What if everyone (almost) went blind. ...more |
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| This book started so well, I loved it. The country accents were great! When Flora met Adam, she bought him a liddle mop to clean the dishes, but he said it was too pretty, and stuck with using a twig. Funny! Adam is ninety odd years and a backward bu ...more | |
"I wanted to read this after reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and being curious about two sisters who both were famous authors. (Plus a friend of mine recommended "Jane Eyre" to me after I told them I had enjoyed "Pride and Prejudice" by J"
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"It made a big impression on me, the sort of book that I won't forget that I've read. At first, it felt like I was reading Jane Austin on steroids. Set in late 18th century Yorkshire moors, it is packed with details of the speech, daily life, seasons,"
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Rabbit Redux is an almost plotless slice of life novel where the mundane is made beautiful by Updike’s descriptive prose. Everything is described. In your face, vividly. At times it is psychadelic. Rabbit blunders along like a fearless camera with a b ...more |
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| The best thing about these stories is when Jeeves extricates Wooster from his latest calamity. But there is too little Jeeves in this one, and too much blithering from Wooster (and the plot is insane). There are a few choice lines scattered about, an ...more | |
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