The Rushlight List - A novel for each and every country This was a slow read. Five-hundred pages shouldn't have been too daunting to a regular reader of epic fantasy, but I have to say that after the first few it was clear to me that Oscar and Lucinda was no page-turner. However, I was determined to...
The synopsis that I read of the book really doesn't encompass the meaning of the story, as the transporting of the "Crystal Palace" doesn't occur until the last quarter of the book. Lucinda is a bad-tempered young heiress, who didn't grow up in money, but came into early in adulthood. She desperatel...
Write a review...Hmm. This was just very odd, really. It was a slow starter, taking some time before Oscar & Lucinda met, and there was a certain rhythm to the early section of the book, with intiially long passages being concentrated on Oscar, then on Lucinda. This pace increased until the point th...
This is an odd combination of historical fiction - set in Australia in the mid-19th century and love story. The title characters, Oscar, a young English clergyman, and Lucinda, a wealthy independent girl, meet in Sydney. Oscar has the goal of serving God and Lucinda wants to build a church made of...
This is my second Carey, and though it doesn't top the voice or language of my first (Parrot and Olivier in America), I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend it and now consider myself a fan.I like his odd premises and vivid detailing and devious humor and quirky characters; I occasionally become disorie...
This is my second Carey, and though it doesn't top the voice or language of my first (Parrot and Olivier in America), I thoroughly enjoyed and recommend it and now consider myself a fan.I like his odd premises and vivid detailing and devious humor and quirky characters; I occasionally become disorie...
this book is painful to read. though i have no similarity w/ lucinda (not a gambler, don't have big inheritance, not the tidiest person on earth) still i can understand and felt how she felt as she was watching another good potential slipping away. sigh... i don't watch movie anymore because i can't...
technicolor and wide-screen in scale and spectacle, quirky and consistently surprising in characterization and incident. virtually a catalog of bizarre imagery, you-are-there historical detail, and way-off-center characters. so many beautiful sequences linger on in the mind, so many wonderful charac...
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