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“I’ve had a good life on the whole. It was a bit of a struggle at first, my people were very poor, and the village school isn’t the best start for an education.” … “It wasn’t so easy in those days, over thirty years ago, and I hated having to ask my parents for financial help.”
Edmund Carr’s family was very poor, but not so poor that they couldn’t have helped him finance his university studies?
— Jun 26, 2021 08:53AM
Edmund Carr’s family was very poor, but not so poor that they couldn’t have helped him finance his university studies?
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Clapton
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It often seems as if SW is trying to create characters outside her social (upper) sphere but has no idea what such a character might really look like. They feel hollow; a feeling reinforced by the fact that the book is just journal blotters by the protagonist Carr and most of the ideas are expressed through dialog and not action.
— Jun 26, 2021 09:08AM
Clapton
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This book is full of inconsistencies. Edmund Carr has written one of the foremost books on the Middle East, but never had the urge to travel outside Britain?
— Jun 26, 2021 09:07AM
Clapton
is on page 96 of 156
Until now I don’t think it’s a great novel. I’m a little bored. Somehow the writing feels a little lazy; indulgent and without structure.
— Jun 25, 2021 04:53AM
Clapton
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The introduction states that this “is not a great novel.” Refreshing honesty.
— Jun 25, 2021 04:50AM