Enjoyed the Bruegel mystery tour very much, and the first third of the book while it was setting the scene. But for me the farce of the last third of the book didn't really succeed and I did skip over quite a bit of the last few chapters, wanting to hear the plot but not all the detail.
- So what did you think?- I liked it! A lot of really interesting historical stuff about the Bohr/Heisenberg/Schrödinger triangle. And I just had no idea about Heisenberg's involvement in the Nazi nuclear project. Fascinating. Can't imagine how I missed reading about that earlier. - Ah, come on Geor...
What a play. As I watched it I knew I had to see it again but wouldn't be able to as the season was booked out. As it was, the night we went our seats were on the stage. A peculiar experience.Still, it meant I bought the book the next day. Gleefully grabbed by one of the people I went with before I ...
I've seen this three times. It's the most clever play, hysterically funny, really laugh-until-it-hurts-funny, but it has to be done by somebody top-notch. Happily, I've only bombed out once.Michael Frayn suffers from being an all-rounder. I once read some advice he gave to aspiring writers. Find one...
Maybe it isn't fair for me to assess this book. I like words, pictures don't do it for me. So even though this book is full of words, they are words about pictures. I should have realised that even Michael Frayn couldn't get me through that.
It's remarkably hard to describe A Landing on the Sun without giving something away, since for quite a while you don't even know what genre it belongs to. Some of my early hypotheses were a bureaucratic comedy of manners; a Kafkaesque study of alienation; a science-fiction novel; a police procedural...
When I read this book I could see nothing in it but the idea that you have been given this gift of life and you have to do the right thing by it. That to give up on finding love and happiness is to scorn this gift.And yet...maybe the very opposite is true. Maybe what I should have seen is the idea t...
The Russian Interpreter is the story of a British academic based at Moscow University who becomes embroiled in an piece of minor espionage through no fault of his own. It’s funny, quirky and entertaining. Unlike most spy stories the focus is on character rather than plot but then Michael Frayn is no...
This was far too long and it seemed like the author fell in love with his research on Dutch painters but I still got wrapped up in this tale of a rather odious academic who thinks he has found a lost painting by the master Bruegel.
Before GR read.Re-read details:Budding art historian Martin Clay makes an extraordinary chance discovery. Read by Martin Jarvis. Broadcast on:BBC Radio 7, 2:30pm Monday 18th January 2010
Important: Our sites use cookies.
We use the information stored using cookies and similar technologies for advertising and statistics purposes.
Stored data allow us to tailor the websites to individual user's interests.
Cookies may be also used by third parties cooperating with BookLikes, like advertisers, research companies and providers of multimedia applications.
You can choose how cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings.
If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, BookLikes will not function properly and certain services will not be provided.
For more information, please go to our Privacy Policy.
Log in with Facebook 
