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    <body><![CDATA[My several days in the company of Alan Bennett are over, sadly. Funny, moving, full of common sense. Lots of recollections of actors and directors that I came of age watching on TV, but it's his family who are the real stars; yes, yes, ordinary people are the real heroes (we hear this so often I dou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78722577">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great collection of his writings.  It covers much of his life and includes excerpts from his diaries which are wonderful.  His writings on art, favorite paintings and churches are very charming and he has a wonderful way of bringing life to these subjects. I Really enjoyed the pieces about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38333321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The same stork that brought &quot;The Banquet Years&quot; delivered this as well - what a delight! I waxed enthusiastic about Bennett's &quot;Writing Home&quot; just a few months ago - look forward to more. <br/>Part of Bennett's appeal is that of the secondary talents of any generation, augmented,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24491112">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Alan Bennett is a wonderful writer, he can make anything interesting and he has such an observing eye, the book is a pleasure as it is a mixture of his early days in Leeds and his family who are so lovingly but unsparingly portrayed and then extracts his 2000 diaries, a pure pleasure.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first section of the book was fine.  Stories about his upbringing and his mother's battle with mental illness.  Sadly the rest of the book made up by his diaries bored me me to tears.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read The Lady in the Van, I was anticipating Bennett's rollicking humor to carry this book of his memoirs.  I found it dreadful, the complaints of a narcissistic, neurotic man who may never be comfortable with his sexual identity.  I had to force myself to keep reading for the good of the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46461814">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i came to this book as a fan of the history boys and knew nothing else about bennett, except for some excerpts from his diaries. his writing is precise and full of wry humour; i particularly enjoyed (if that's the word) his account of his struggle with cancer - trying to keep it as fuss-free as poss...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51786870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like &quot;Untold Stories&quot; most of all; it's his poignant family memoir, as well as &quot;A Room of My Own&quot; (Have you read Virginai Woolf's &quot;A Room of One's Own&quot;?). In brief, his prose is readable and, I think, one can learn a lot of good English from him if he/she keeps readin...]]></body>
    
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