The girls of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Womens' Book Club are at a crossroads. One of their founding members is dead, they've made a few unfor...
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Feb 27, 2010
MagdalenaMagdalena
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Really such a good book. I can understand why its not to some peoples taste because I did read about two thirds of it thinking 'I have no real idea what the hell is going on!' but in actuality, I think Sean Dixon has really written a piece of genius here. There is really little character building, its hard to put a face to each of the characters and its written so 'of the moment' that its hard to remember what happened a few pages back. I think what he's managed is no mean feat though. Thro
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Jan 14, 2010
Miriam
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Ok, I didn't finish this one, but I read 2/3 of it and it was torture. I hear that the last 50 pages there is actual plot and character development but the rest of it was just "look at me, I'm a writer, I can have a plotless novel about weirdos and you will read it because it's a published book with a catchy blurby plot on the jacket." Sorry, but that doesn't cut it for me. I love an innovative style and I'm WILLING to go with not having ANY info about where things are going for MOST o
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Jul 07, 2009
Julie
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According to author Sean Dixon’s blog, his novel, The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, is based on the premise of “What happens when your average everyday book club reads the oldest book in the world?” My answer would be that is gets really weird.
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club is not, and I repeat, not your “everyday average book club.” First they met daily. Second, they are a young women’s group which includes a man-who-wants-to-be-a-woman and a ten-year-old boy, who c More...
The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club is not, and I repeat, not your “everyday average book club.” First they met daily. Second, they are a young women’s group which includes a man-who-wants-to-be-a-woman and a ten-year-old boy, who c More...
May 19, 2011
Jaimie
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I can see how this is either a love-it or a hate-it book. I really, really liked it! So much more than I expected to, in fact. Usually I very much dislike books that have descriptions like "different people come together and their lives intertwine in unexpected ways".
This book's salvation was its quirkiness. I am such a sucker for quirky, somewhat strange and out-there books. I can forgive many of its faults because I saw what the author was striving for, and I totally g More...
This book's salvation was its quirkiness. I am such a sucker for quirky, somewhat strange and out-there books. I can forgive many of its faults because I saw what the author was striving for, and I totally g More...
Nov 17, 2009
Maria
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I was going to give this 2 stars, but on the ratings here on goodreads, 2 stars means 'it was ok', and I'm afraid it wasn't ok, for me!
I didn't like this book.
The 'Lacuna Cabal', is a young women's book club, but it's a very strange book club. It is made up of some young women, some not-so-young, a cross-dresser (male) who is thinking of having a sex change, and a boy of 10 years old. The book club also allows 2 men to join as members, later in the book. The bunch of misfits who m More...
I didn't like this book.
The 'Lacuna Cabal', is a young women's book club, but it's a very strange book club. It is made up of some young women, some not-so-young, a cross-dresser (male) who is thinking of having a sex change, and a boy of 10 years old. The book club also allows 2 men to join as members, later in the book. The bunch of misfits who m More...
Jun 30, 2009
Carole
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My advice to anyone that starts reading this book: Keep Reading! There were a few times there in the beginning when it was going in circles that I almost put it down. But I am so glad that I kept reading. This twisted story about The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is not what you expect it to be. The group has been through a lot of trauma over the last 6 months which has changed the way that they conduct their meetings, eventually sending them on a journey they never expected
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Jan 16, 2009
Jennifer
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How I loved this book. I happened to be in Montreal while I read this book which gave me a better understanding of the book's setting. I loved the idea of a pair of narrators who miss out on all the main action. I loved the references to all the other books and authors in the story (many of which I had read). I finished it on the train heading back home and cried and cried and cried. I wonder what the original play was like.
Mar 12, 2010
Jade
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Quite a strange novel, but one which, once you can gets to grips with it has some lovely deep messages. The writing style was a little irratic and although this did compliment the theme of the book, it made areas more confusing than they needed to be. Overall though the story itself was both beautiful and tragic, and made me laugh and cry - the ingredients of a good book.
Oct 15, 2011
VeganMedusa
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Trying to be very clever. Not really succeeding, in my opinion. Lots of outrageously quirky characters, but no one to identify with or like or care about.
My main problem with this book, though, is one particular scene. If a man has his way with a woman who is injured, drugged and hallucinating, we'd call that rape. So why is it supposed to be funny if it's a woman raping a man? Oh yeah, because he's a nerd who's a virgin. But then he falls in love with the woman, who was only acting out a More...
My main problem with this book, though, is one particular scene. If a man has his way with a woman who is injured, drugged and hallucinating, we'd call that rape. So why is it supposed to be funny if it's a woman raping a man? Oh yeah, because he's a nerd who's a virgin. But then he falls in love with the woman, who was only acting out a More...
Aug 18, 2009
♥Jessica♥
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I really liked this book! It was really interesting, and quite funny. It made me laugh a lot, and it captured my interest from the first page. 5 stars to The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal!
Jan 13, 2009
Carli
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I wish there was a way for me to rate this "I HATED IT" because this book is awful. This was our bookclub read this last month (we've got some Brits who ordered it from amazon.uk) and not one of us enjoyed it. pretentious and ridiculous.
Feb 06, 2010
Sarah
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Very meta, all about the power of storytelling - just the kind of thing I love...
May 19, 2009
think this pretty much says it all about this offbeat novel about a ladies’ book group at an epic crossroads: “”An intellectual, sexual, logorrheic, bibliophilic, cryptological, political, and archaeological rant of the first order. It’ll change your idea of what ‘written in stone’ means, and it’ll blow your mind too.”–Michael Redhill, author of Consolation
Apr 09, 2009
Nicky
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Really quite a strange books, and i can't quite tell whether I enjoyed it. It revolves around a girls book group, full of misfits and sad backstories. Defining the last days, the book starts at crisis point as two, then 3 strangers are drawn into the group and an epic retelling of the story of Gilgamesh, that takes on a life (and some deaths) of it's own.
Apr 09, 2010
Angie
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I don't think I could even begin to explain the plot of this novel other than it's about a very odd bookclub that tries to re-enact the Epic of Gilgamesh. But it kept me turning the pages and made me laugh out loud quite a few times so it had to be good.
Oct 02, 2011
Gem
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not a bad book. interesting characters especially Aline and Neil. good plot really. middle dragged a bit but enjoyed it on the whole :)
Dec 15, 2009
Mel
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will be getting as part of the 'first reads' program. Am excited to give it a try.
Jul 08, 2010
Jeanette
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Lovely, weird, smart, and sad: pretty much everything that I like in a book.
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