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Jan 2021
12:57pm, 19 Jan 2021
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Diogenes
[sorry, let's get the tone back up with some erudite literary criticism]
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Jan 2021
1:26pm, 19 Jan 2021
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mrs shanksi
Haha
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Jan 2021
1:29pm, 19 Jan 2021
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Oscar the Grouch
Hi folks. I don't belong to the *other* thread and I haven't quite picked up this one yet - but here goes. Sorry if discussed elsewhere or this is for *serious* books...
Just finished the Chalk Man by CJ Tudor. No spoilers, but I thought it was excellent.
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Jan 2021
1:34pm, 19 Jan 2021
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McGoohan
All are welcome Oscar.
Not familiar with that author or book to be honest. Is that a spooky one?
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Jan 2021
1:42pm, 19 Jan 2021
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Oscar the Grouch
Thanks  Indeed. Always a worry when comparisons are made with Stephen King but in this case worthwhile. She hails from Nottingham it seems and this particular story was a bit of a whodunnit written from 2016 and 1986 points of view of the author. 1986 in particular was evocative of the age for me. It turns out she is my age and that's probably why the language is just so.
So, as for genre, crime thriller/horror (very gentle if the latter)
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Jan 2021
1:49pm, 19 Jan 2021
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LazyDaisy
OK
I finally finished Rebecca last night, having started it and cast it aside some months ago because the dreary passivity of the narrator was too irritating.
I dimly recall the climactic scene of a TV adaptation with Anna Massey as Mrs Danvers so I knew an inferno was coming to Manderley but I couldn't remember the details of the plot apart from Mrs D's infatuation with Rebecca and her tricking Mrs De W 2 into wearing the same outfit for a ball. I don't think knowing these elements affected my enjoyment of the book.
Because as the story moved on, I *did* begin to enjoy it. I still found Mrs De Wet too supine and dim, and Maxim a rather creepy character who could be accused of grooming his child-wife into marriage (and let's not forget his murderous temper!), but I was impressed by the claustrophobic atmosphere created by Du Maurier and intrigued by the moral ambiguity of a murderer getting away with it.
I'm glad I finally got round to reading it but I doubt I shall want to read it again.
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Jan 2021
1:55pm, 19 Jan 2021
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LindsD
Totally agree about the characters, but it didn't bother me
Hello to Oscar. We love new recommendations here.
McG (or anyone) - have you read anything else by the Rev Richard Holloway?
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Jan 2021
1:58pm, 19 Jan 2021
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McGoohan
I've got another one to read Linds. I'll just go check (it's in the other room)
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Jan 2021
1:59pm, 19 Jan 2021
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McGoohan
Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics
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Jan 2021
2:17pm, 19 Jan 2021
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Night-owl
Hello and welcome Oscar
I have seen that book, heard of author. Might add that to my mental TBR Pile
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