The Year of the Lion

by Gerald Hanley

1st Pan 367 1956 edition paperback, vg condition In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Audiobook, Class, Manga, Reference

221 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[Chevy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well thank god that’s over! I blame the editor; this book DID NOT need to be as long as it was.[return][return]I’d cut the Christmas and the kid’s dialogue. Christmas brought nothing to the story except one more element to write about. As for that so did the kid’s birthday being 2 days after Christmas; why is this even necessary. Having a 4 y/o at home with a nanny is fine; you don’t need Christmas break and a birthday to justify that this character has a kid. A married couple with a child who is privileged enough to have a nanny because she comes from a wealthy background and her mother is a Dr. no more needed really. 86 Christmas and bday and kid dialogue would have gotten rid of a good bit of unnecessary excess. (And peanut allergy really?!)[return]The ending went on and on and on! I mean usually the climax comes close to the end and then things are revealed and wrapped up but not here. The ending starts wrapping up but then the characters’ stories start over and are not even interesting.[return]Actually the only thing that really was interesting was all the gaslighting. There were a lot of things going on in this book but it needed more emphasis on (let me see) the fact that the mother was murdered/there was a death in the family. Can’t trust anyone except this old friend who I actually haven’t been friends with for awhile who just happens to be staying in my house where all the crap is happening. [return]Don’t think I didn’t notice that practically all the women in this book had some sort of mental illness either!

[Ben T · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting topic, but the approach did not feel coherent or helpful. A lot of gesturing towards important topics without providing any real guidance. For instance, we can read "Library schools don't teach courses in Narcan..." on page 56 in the preface to the third major section of the book, but then the chapter doesn't really circle back to that. Poor (AI voice-to-text, I speculate?) editing, such as the reference to "the Italian cohort of gorilla librarians" on page 59, but then thereafter references to "guerilla librarians," which makes more sense (though there is that famous Monty Python skit in which a man in a gorilla suit interviews for a job as a librarian). All in all, this felt honestly like it was AI slop that was fed content by R. David Lankes and was commenting on it in the style of R. David Lankes. I'm not saying that's what it was -- I'm confident that Lankes did give these speeches. I'm saying that's what it felt to me like I was reading.

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[Nic Boshart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read the second draft, very good.

[Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Chris Sharpe]

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[Rudolf Waldner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it. Takes you back to old Africa. Old politics, plentiful wildlife, a well painted picture of the times and the people that populated it.

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