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Book Fox rated it

15 years ago

text Wanting

I read this shortly after reading Drood and The Terror by Dan Simmons, and there's a good deal of overlap in characters and themes (Sir John Frnklin, Charles Dickens). That being said, this book is nothing like those.

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Bettie's Books rated it

15 years ago

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The war had ended as wars sometimes do, unexpectedly. Page 198 - It was 1844. The last pair of great auks in the world had just been killed, Friedrich Nietzsche born, and Samuel Morse sent the first electrical communication in history. It was a telegram that read: 'What hath God wrought'.

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Nichole - Dirty H if you're nasty rated it

15 years ago

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I renewed this three times, which is the limit for my local library. I got less than 1/3 of the way through it in that time. The book had some interesting things to say about racism and the way some cultures (primarily white cultures) try to impose themselves on others, Unfortunately, I don't know w...

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elisas8 rated it

16 years ago

text Death of a River Guide

this is a really lovely, beautiful book. i love the way it was written, just so beautiful.

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Chrissie's Books rated it

16 years ago

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I cannot decide what to read by this author. I have to read something. Here, I am guessing, the author is writing about "what lies close to his heart". Should I start here? If anybody has read several of Flanagan's books, please help me choose one! In addition, if I don't like it, I will learn some...

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Dem rated it

56 years ago

text The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The 2014 Booker prize-winning story is powerful, harrowing and a quite difficult read but a book that will stay with me for a long time.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier...

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