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Robin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Robin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Robin Newbold’s Followers (34)
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Robin Newbold
Goodreads Author
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
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Influences
Graham Greene, Bret Easton Ellis, Jake Arnott, Alan Hollinghurst, Jame
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Member Since
July 2019
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Bangkok Burning
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Bloody Summer
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2012
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Vacuum-packed
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2014
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6 editions
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| I first read the diaries 20 years ago when I had just graduated and was in awe of Joe Orton. Funny how time and experience have removed the scales from my eyes. Nothing can condone his sexual predeliction for teenage boys, which he luridly details in ...more | |
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"I'm so ambivalent on this book. It is Joe Orton's diary, annotated with letters and pertinent quotes from friends and family. As a diary, there is a fair amount of the mundane -- which is rather enjoyable. Joe was a brilliant, creative, cutting-edge "
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"”To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature.”
I am not sure how well known Joe Orton is these days. He was a playwright who wrote some very good plays (Loot, What the Butler Saw, Entertaini" Read more of this review » |
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| Started off promisingly but then just got completely bogged down. Despite seven, yes seven, POVs, not one interesting character emerges. Also what qualifies this as literary fiction? Is it because it is nearly 500 pages long. Don’t know about God of ...more | |
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“If you meet with triumph and disaster, treat those two impostors just the same.”
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The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
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