I wish I hadn't waited so long to read this book. It's been sitting on my TBR list and I kept passing it up. Then I saw that HBO was making a mini-series out of it and I didn't want to watch it before I read it. What an incredible character study. Rowling connects the citizens in Pagford to one an...
I tried reading this (almost exactly) a year ago. I made it less than 100 pages before giving up. Here we go again.
I had low expectations for this book for a number of reasons. As a fan of JKR's Potter books, I knew that anything not-Potter would inevitably feel like something of a letdown. For example, any time poor Patricia Cornwell writes any non-Scarpetta book, she gets roasted by her Scarpetta fans. Also, t...
★★★☆☆ What to give this book? Five stars or what? One of the most depressing books I’ve ever read or listened to. Also one of the most beautifully written books, and is very well narrated. The characters are well thought out and wonderfully written...but very sad. It is a social commentary and ...
4.5 starsReview to come
I could not have been more wrong about this book. What starts out as a boring and dull book about people’s everyday lives and problems, became something much much more. I actually had tears in my eyes when I finished the book.I didn’t realize what J.K. Rowling was doing. Dragging you in, making you ...
Secrets, Sabotage, and Scandal or Oh the things muggles get up to...Casual Vacancy tells the story of a small community in the aftermath of the unexpected death of one of its community leaders and council members, Barry Fairbrother. Several of Fairbrother's peers are ready and willing to fill his em...
Does this sound about right? “Rowling’s refusal to conform to happy endings demonstrates the fact that The Casual Vacancy is not meant to be entertainment. She wants to deal with real-life issues, not the fantasy world to which women writers are often confined. Her ambition is to create a portrait o...
I'm fond of Burgess, so it pains me to relate what a putz he is in the intro ("A Clockwork Orange Resucked") read in this audiobook. He rails against U.S. publishers for removing his last chapter, which is included in this edition. He incorrectly asserts that Americans only like the book for its bas...
Over the years, I've tried to actually read A Clockwork Orange, but the invented language always threw me. I just couldn't get into it at all. Then, my son introduced me to this audio version - It Was Amazing! The reader does such an excellent job bringing it to life, the listener has no trouble, ...
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