Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget.
Camilla Send a noteboard - 06/09/2011 10:56:37 PM
I want to see if they are AWESOMESAUCE or TERRIBLESAUCE.
They are a wonderful mix of both. Dreadful, with heaving bosoms and perfect, beautiful people, and a woman praised for her with who is rather a dim bulb. BUT it somehow also manages to be WONDERFUL.
She is not dim! She is just suffering! Suffering people are allowed to be a little slow! They have other things on their minds!She is rather dim. Really. Seriously. She is lovely, and all that, but she has been living with him, she has seen him before he presented himself as an inane fop; clearly she is rather less than perceptive.
But he rejected her! She was -
- okay so she was totally wallowing in her own goddam misery and maybe if she were a little less self-centered and paid attention to ANYTHING besides her sorry martyred self she would've known.
But! But! She was pretty! That forgives it all, right?
I do believe it does.
It is quite astonishing, really. All the clichés, all the nonsense: I still cannot find her annoying. I should be disgusted by this book, and I love it.
*MySmiley*
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Man Booker 2011 shortlist out.
- 06/09/2011 10:20:49 PM
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Re: Man Booker 2011 shortlist out.
- 06/09/2011 10:25:01 PM
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Re: Project Gutenberg and it's Australian version together have most of the Pimpernel books.
- 06/09/2011 10:32:21 PM
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Re: Project Gutenberg and it's Australian version together have most of the Pimpernel books.
- 06/09/2011 10:34:01 PM
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Re: I am going to read them all.
- 06/09/2011 10:44:07 PM
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Re: I am going to read them all.
- 06/09/2011 10:46:21 PM
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Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"?
- 06/09/2011 10:48:58 PM
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Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"?
- 06/09/2011 10:51:32 PM
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Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget.
- 06/09/2011 10:54:16 PM
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Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget.
- 06/09/2011 10:56:37 PM
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Maybe she is meant to be French? And that's why she doesn't get her hubby's two English extremes? *NM*
- 06/09/2011 11:00:20 PM
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The punny one sounds vaguely amusing... or at least the title does.
- 06/09/2011 10:28:50 PM
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Oh, apparently she's a spy turned spy novel author... guess that makes more sense. *NM*
- 06/09/2011 10:30:08 PM
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I've read half of the shortlist already, a first for me
- 06/09/2011 10:38:39 PM
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Re: I'm not a Barnes fan.
- 06/09/2011 10:45:20 PM
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Sounds like you'd even read a Goodkind book first 
- 06/09/2011 10:58:50 PM
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Re: That is weird. It has got good reviews, you'd think they'd pass it over the ocean ASAP. *NM*
- 06/09/2011 11:01:00 PM
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