Dedication: For CandiceQuote: 'Ours was the marsh country...' Great ExpectationsOpening: 'And don't forget,' my father would say, as if he expected me at any moment to up and leave to seek my fortune in the wide world, 'whatever you learn about people, however bad they turn out, each one of them ha...
Upon reading the premise, I remember that the film has been watched: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253200/Dedication: For AlOpening quotes:But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. Urn Burial by Sir Thomas Browne.I do like to be beside the seaside. John A. Glover-KindOpe...
Took me a while to get into it instead of just being cranky at the author for withholding cliffhanger-y information, but then I got grabbed narratively as well as suspensely and was breathless for the rest.(Clearly when reviewing books I need plus good wordspeak)
Book of LamentationAs part of his investigations into the properties of light, Isaac Newton poked around behind his own eyeball with a bodkin. In this novel, Graham Swift undertakes an equally painful investigation of the darkness that lies behind the demise of a traditional farming family.Jack Luxt...
June 2011: Better the second time. Love it when that happens. December 2009: This book has everything: love, death, war, history, philosophy, beer, water, England, babies, eels, rivers, Revolutions, kidnapping, sex, murder, and even incest . . . everything except a happy ending. [First read Dece...
Gave this up pretty quickly. I attempted the audio version, so perhaps it translates poorly in that format, but the style made the story entirely impossible to comprehend. I kept checking my ipod to see if it was skipping chapters because there seemed to be no coherent narrative. Just as I thought I...
I actually enjoyed the short chapters told from different points of view. In fact, there was one really funny, really short chapter. Sadly, I also felt that the book, despite its excellent tone and prose was about 125 pages too long.
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