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Badger
Badger
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I've read all but the most recent Dublin Murder Squad; they're all good, and one of the things I like is that minor characters in one regularly get extended in the next - nobody is just a real dick, they have reasons for being the way they are and eventually those get explained.
Sharkie
Sharkie
Jan 2017
1:06pm, 10 Jan 2017
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Sharkie
But it's best if you forget that trick... and let it dawn on you as you read each successive book don't you think? Mind you, reviews and blurbs give it away rather.
Badger
Badger
Jan 2017
1:37pm, 10 Jan 2017
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Badger
I think the best way to approach them would be to binge-read the lot while putting that technique out of your mind. In practice, reading them as they go into paperback has meant I went back and reread the previous book each time to make the development/exposition of characters as clear as possible to myself.
Columba
Columba
Jan 2017
3:33pm, 10 Jan 2017
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Columba
Sharkie, I was certainly in my teens but can't remember exactly where in my teens.

I've read Jude but can't call it to mind. That should be next after The Tenant, then, perhaps.

Loved that poem, Dio.
Seratonin
Seratonin
Jan 2017
3:36pm, 10 Jan 2017
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Seratonin
Another *like* for the poem :-)
LindsD
LindsD
Jan 2017
10:31pm, 10 Jan 2017
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LindsD
Fab poem.
beebop
beebop
Jan 2017
11:43pm, 10 Jan 2017
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beebop
Not a literary comment: I remember enjoying Lucky Jim when I read it years ago, but it was immediately spoilt backwards when I read Take a Girl Like You straight afterwards. I don't give a fuck if it was the sixties, drug rape as a romantic centrepiece is toxic shit. Not read any Kingsley Amis since. Should I?
GregP
GregP
Jan 2017
7:00am, 11 Jan 2017
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GregP
Thank you. I'm constantly baffled by apologists of things like this who shrug and say 'different era, different values'. I'm trying hard not to mention my feeling that BTOOT was misogynist but it seems I inadvertently just did.
Serendippily
Serendippily
Jan 2017
8:46am, 11 Jan 2017
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Serendippily
I don't think btoot was misogynistic just small town/island. Philip Roth now - sabbaths theatre was proper misogynistic but I still loved it.
Seratonin
Seratonin
Jan 2017
9:38am, 11 Jan 2017
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Seratonin
Finished Nod this morning and will be able to hop over to the discussion thread.

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