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.
I'm just annoyed Half Blood Blues isn't even listed on the US Amazon page.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Man Booker 2011 shortlist out.
- 06/09/2011 10:20:49 PM
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Re: Man Booker 2011 shortlist out.
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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.
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Re: I am going to read them all.
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Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"?
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Re: Did you just call Marguerite St. Just "a dim bulb"?
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Re: Okay, yes, and he courted her intelligently so that is dumb of her to forget.
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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*
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The punny one sounds vaguely amusing... or at least the title does.
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Oh, apparently she's a spy turned spy novel author... guess that makes more sense. *NM*
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I've read half of the shortlist already, a first for me
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Re: I'm not a Barnes fan.
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Sounds like you'd even read a Goodkind book first 
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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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