The blue guitar by John BanvilleOliver Ponn steals things and it's not about the item just that he can get away with it.His other passion was painting. Starts out with him being a kid of 8 or 9 and stealing a toy from a display at Christmas time.Also all about his parents and the woman he cheats wi...
I can find no fault with the writing, but the story, while not really long, meandered too much and in the end, did not really have much of a point. I had to take breaks while reading this book, because I kept losing interest.Had the writing itself not been so strong, this would have been a 2 star b...
The Sea is a slim book. The final, single-sentence paragraph closes full stop on page 195. Slim, but not brief. Within its covers is an entire world, a world of one man’s memories of two deaths—one at the beginning of his life and the other in his old age. The book takes the form of a sort of memoir...
bookshelves: tbr-busting-2014, spring-2014, booker-winner, britain-ireland, radio-4x, lit-richer, lifestyles-deathstyles, those-autumn-years Read from March 24, 2013 to April 11, 2014 Description: In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville in...
I can only rate three stars because other than Lord Chandos Letter itself, actually only 10% of the book, spoke to me. It is a letter to a friend explaining why words no longer can express anything he sees or feels, so he decides to abandon words altogether. There is a certain irony to the "story" i...
Bored, that's what I felt reading this book. It's very short, only about 150 pages, and still, it was too long for the story that was being told. I just couldn't care for the story. I'm not planning on reading more books by this author, and wouldn't recommend them. Something I do think is intere...
Poor Major Brendan Archer has survived the Great War and sets off to Ireland to visit his mysterious fiancée, Angela, at the Majestic, the hotel owned by her family. Although he was sure that he had never actually proposed to Angela during the few days of their acquaintance, it was beyond doubt that...
One evening he found himself sitting beside two ladies in the Rotunda. The house, thinly peopled and silent, gave distressing prophecy of failure. The lady who sat next him looked around at the deserted house once or twice and then said: -- What a pity there is such a poor house to-night! It's so ha...
I enjoyed the language in this novel. Banville just writes well. At times it is a bit flowery, but he nails it so frequently that this is forgivable. I enjoyed the premise, but was distracted enough by a few things that I cannot grant him five stars.First, I kept wondering about all the other peo...
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