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The Field of the Cloth of Gold - Book Group Discussion Thread

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Columba
Columba
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I think you just have to take Magnus Mills at face value, - while noting all the tangential references. Don't look for Messages or Meanings; though if they happen to jump out at you, so be it.
GregP
GregP
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Sorry - somewhere about half way or just clicked. Now reading ever-so-slowly to eke our the last few chapters. Tremendous fun.
GregP
GregP
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Let’s try that again.
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Sorry - somewhere about half way or so it just clicked. Now reading ever-so-slowly to eke our the last few chapters. Tremendous fun.
GregP
GregP
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All done. I gave it 8 here, 4 on Goodreads. Goodreads review below:

It took a while to tune in to the story and stop 'noticing' the lack of internal logic. Once I'd cleared that hurdle - and stopped worrying about who was cutting the grass and why the biscuits didn't go soft - I loved it. Sinisterly innocent. Or innocently sinister. Or both. Great fun.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Nov 2017
8:11pm, 29 Nov 2017
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Did you read Maintenance of Headway?
Night-owl
Night-owl
Nov 2017
8:14pm, 29 Nov 2017
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Wow is this the most engaging book review thread ever
GregP
GregP
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8:17pm, 29 Nov 2017
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No. Should I have done?

After all this fantastical whimsy the next two on my 'to read' pile involve respectively space ships (in the guise of an 800 page novella by Alastair Reynolds) or a thriller featuring a lead character who is Very Tall and indeed All Man.

Decisions, decisions.
GregP
GregP
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[McG - you may be amused to learn that I was reading it in the dentist waiting room this morning and exclaimed "stone me it's John the Baptist" out loud ~blush emoticon~]
McGoohan
McGoohan
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No, the reason being I'm going to mildly spoilerise TMoH in my review of TFOTCOG
McGoohan
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Only 800 pages from Reynolds? He's letting the side down a bit.

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