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Nov 2024
3:45pm, 25 Nov 2024
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DazTheSlug
I am just about to start a book described in its blurb thusly: "...first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. With the appearance of the television-handed ghostess, however, comes a possible route of escape." so wish me luck! ;o) |
Nov 2024
3:52pm, 25 Nov 2024
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LindsD
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Nov 2024
2:20pm, 26 Nov 2024
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Diogenes
I've just finished Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers, a work that is regarded by many as her best work, and is a favourite of many. While I have no doubt it is a good book, it is also a mess of a thing. I will explain. First of all, this book doesn't know what it is. Ostensibly a golden age crime thriller, it also has elements of a feminist literary novel, a romance, and a psychological thriller with elements of Wodehousian slapstick, and hints of Lord Peter Wimsey being an international man of mystery. If all of these elements were woven together seamlessly than it would be incredible, but they are not. A nuanced philosophical debate about the rights and responsibilities of women in education knocks up hard against the callow pranks of chinless adolescents. The book is populated by stereotypes, especially of the working class variety. I was quite glad when I finished it. I've not read anything I've really enjoyed for ages. |
Nov 2024
4:14pm, 26 Nov 2024
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Columba
Dio, that's very sad. What was the last thing you read that you did really enjoy?
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Nov 2024
4:28pm, 26 Nov 2024
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McGoohan
Are you up to date on Mick Herron Dio? After my horrible November choice - which took weeks to read despite being only 180 pages long, I read the 4th Slough House book, Spook Street in two extended sittings. |
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Nov 2024
4:42pm, 26 Nov 2024
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McGoohan
Also.... it's nearly December. As current choosinator I have to choose the next one. Let's see how many people we have left? Well... er... So @westmoors I think it's only fair to offer you the choice. 1. Do you want to choose the December book - of whatever kind 2. Do you want to choose a specifically Christmas book? The past few years have seen this happen with varied results. 3. If the Book Group en masse want a specifically Christmas book, one can be chosen by committee and you can defer your choosing until January if you like. |
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Nov 2024
5:12pm, 26 Nov 2024
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Diogenes
I am, McG, including the recent backstory adjunct to the series, The Secret Hours. I’m probably being a bit negative. I did like Of Love and Hunger and Midnight and Blue was good. |
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Nov 2024
5:14pm, 26 Nov 2024
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Diogenes
I would be for a free choice, or a book that is only tangentially seasonal.
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Nov 2024
5:18pm, 26 Nov 2024
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Little Nemo
I thought you said tangerine above, I must be Christmas-obsessed!
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Nov 2024
1:19am, 27 Nov 2024
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DazTheSlug
Clockwork Orange?
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