…it turns out I've read this book before. I figured that out from a single detail—the only detail I remembered because it was so Italian—and continued listening to the book like it was my first time reading it. Unmemorable as it was, it was also a decent book. Nothing spectacular but neither anyth...
What I like here is how Barnes sneaks in changes of genre within the fictional confessional memoir. I enjoyed attending to the structure of the novel. Less enjoyable was the story aspect, which was not terrifically interesting to me, perhaps because I didn't find any of the characters sympathetic.
A light, quick comedic take on the British upper classes in the 1990s by the screenwriter of Gosford Park
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