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Re: I'm not a Barnes fan. RomaVenkat Send a noteboard - 06/09/2011 10:45:20 PM
More Julian Barnes, yawn yawn. No Alan Hollinghurst, life is sorrow. Two women. Haven't read a single thing on the shortlist, or even the longlist, so I am feeling ignorant, ill-read and generally behind the times.


The Birch I thought was very well done, the de Witt perhaps being a shade above it. The Kelman was decent, but I didn't warm to it as much as I did to the other two. Will read the others later, the Barnes not until 2012 due to a late US release.


Every time I read something by him I end up thinking, I could have downloaded Xena and watched that instead. Xena, at least, is awesome.
Roh
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Man Booker 2011 shortlist out. RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:20:49 PM 595 Views
Re: Man Booker 2011 shortlist out. Camilla - 06/09/2011 10:25:01 PM 488 Views
Re: Project Gutenberg and it's Australian version together have most of the Pimpernel books. RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:32:21 PM 504 Views
Re: Project Gutenberg and it's Australian version together have most of the Pimpernel books. Camilla - 06/09/2011 10:34:01 PM 492 Views
Re: I am going to read them all. RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:44:07 PM 490 Views
Re: I am going to read them all. Camilla - 06/09/2011 10:46:21 PM 476 Views
Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"? RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:48:58 PM 493 Views
Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"? Camilla - 06/09/2011 10:51:32 PM 497 Views
Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget. RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:54:16 PM 533 Views
Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget. Camilla - 06/09/2011 10:56:37 PM 515 Views
Maybe she is meant to be French? And that's why she doesn't get her hubby's two English extremes? *NM* RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 11:00:20 PM 145 Views
Quite possibly. Damned foreigners. *NM* Camilla - 06/09/2011 11:01:36 PM 170 Views
The punny one sounds vaguely amusing... or at least the title does. Legolas - 06/09/2011 10:28:50 PM 506 Views
Oh, apparently she's a spy turned spy novel author... guess that makes more sense. *NM* Legolas - 06/09/2011 10:30:08 PM 175 Views
Re: I am suspicious of this "previous occupation" business. RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:31:41 PM 498 Views
I've read half of the shortlist already, a first for me Larry - 06/09/2011 10:38:39 PM 497 Views
Re: I'm not a Barnes fan. RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 10:45:20 PM 489 Views
Sounds like you'd even read a Goodkind book first Larry - 06/09/2011 10:58:50 PM 444 Views
Re: That is weird. It has got good reviews, you'd think they'd pass it over the ocean ASAP. *NM* RomaVenkat - 06/09/2011 11:01:00 PM 182 Views
Nope. Nada. Larry - 06/09/2011 11:02:22 PM 498 Views
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