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And completely *loving* this book.
I confess that Flaubert's Parrot still seems like a cross between a not necessarily accurate or reliable biography of M. Flaubert and a notebook from a perhaps half-mad writer, and, I usually do read for plot and character and I'm not so much getting those here but I also read for delight in language and that's here. In spades.
— Aug 23, 2012 10:54PM
I confess that Flaubert's Parrot still seems like a cross between a not necessarily accurate or reliable biography of M. Flaubert and a notebook from a perhaps half-mad writer, and, I usually do read for plot and character and I'm not so much getting those here but I also read for delight in language and that's here. In spades.
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Finished!
Some of the final chapters weren't quite up to the standard of some of the other chapters but, overall, a brilliant book. I was, in fact, moved to see what beat it for the 1984 Booker. Anita Brookner's "Hotel du Lac," as it happens which was also an excellent book. But I think I would have given it to "Flaubert's Parrot." It was utterly fabu.
— Aug 26, 2012 08:09PM
Some of the final chapters weren't quite up to the standard of some of the other chapters but, overall, a brilliant book. I was, in fact, moved to see what beat it for the 1984 Booker. Anita Brookner's "Hotel du Lac," as it happens which was also an excellent book. But I think I would have given it to "Flaubert's Parrot." It was utterly fabu.
