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Jan 2017
12:22pm, 26 Jan 2017
34,322 posts
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Bintmcskint
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Jan 2017
6:23pm, 26 Jan 2017
12,292 posts
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Columba
Haven't read Trainspotting so can't comment.
Coming to the end of The Tenant. Ends are being tied, people are getting married, or getting their come-uppance, or both. The two main characters still have a way to go, though.
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Jan 2017
7:42pm, 26 Jan 2017
14,053 posts
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Seratonin
I have just finished Station Eleven and think that it is fabulous book. I loved the fact that there is golden thread running through the story which the author sews up nicely at the end. Maybe it is wrong to compare an apple with an orange but this book is so much better than Cloud Atlas which kinda attempted to do the same thing.
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Jan 2017
7:49pm, 26 Jan 2017
12,297 posts
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Columba
I had severe doubts about Cloud Atlas.
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Jan 2017
7:53pm, 26 Jan 2017
1,785 posts
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DazTheSlug
I just finished Trainspotting - superb - 5 Stars - will read Tenant... in 2018...
Cloud Atlas was short stories masquerading as novel - I hate that (grrrr)
currently absorbed in Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" - going to be a 4 or 5 Star methinks..
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Jan 2017
7:57pm, 26 Jan 2017
20,382 posts
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Diogenes
I really enjoyed Cloud Atlas and thought it held together well enough.
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Jan 2017
8:04pm, 26 Jan 2017
883 posts
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beebop
McGoohan's comment made me think, so I checked the publishing date for Juliet Barker's book on the Brontes - 1994, the university years for me and therefore not responsible for my late teenage prejudices. I must find it sometime and get a better viewpoint! Tenant finished, and I've started The Woman Who Ran (Sam Baker) which is a modern take on the story, apparently. So far, Gilbert Markham and Helen Graham seem to be journalists, Wildfell Hall is just as dilapidated and the black tomcat trespassing in the larder is the most interesting character...
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Jan 2017
8:06pm, 26 Jan 2017
34,328 posts
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Bintmcskint
Have finished the Magnus Mills.
I think the next book will be my 1968 book from the "book for each year of your life" thing.
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Jan 2017
8:08pm, 26 Jan 2017
884 posts
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beebop
I wonder what biography I did read, though. Winifred Gerin is another name that springs to mind, but possibly because I've just been disagreeing with some of her comments in the introduction to Penguin Classics edition of Tenant.
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Jan 2017
8:38pm, 26 Jan 2017
14,065 posts
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Seratonin
I thought that Cloud Atlas was a good read. I liked some of the story lines more than others. I must admit that I missed some of the connections or the arc that Mitchell was trying to make. I appreciate that Station Eleven is a more compact story based over a 25 year time span but Mendel engenders more empathy with her characters and the story arc is more cohesive.
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