false 86888 11 245459 book 1978 The Virgin in the Garden: A Novel (The Frederica Quartet, #1) total:591|5:145|4:207|3:181|2:50|1:8| 591 2204 973 55 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 4 1 false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jun 05 05:43:17 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 05:43:57 -0700 2007 The Virgin in the Garden doesn't disappoint. Her work is never light reading, but it is beautifully layered and textured, erudite without being overpowering, funny but never really light-hearted; it's la...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 1 false Sat Aug 04 18:15:08 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 18:27:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 2 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 05:58:07 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 09:00:53 -0700 2009
The p...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 1 0 false Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 15:06:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 15:36:04 -0800 2009 The Virgin in the Garden was really painful at times. I seriously skipped entire chunks of pages, skimming quickly, and realizing I wasn't missing anything important. Byatt takes herself so. Damn. Seriously. Some authors, like Melville, are difficult without being a pain in the ass, but Byatt can't ...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 16:57:17 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 03:18:02 -0700 2009
But all that aside, Byatt really has created something special. Yes, part of it...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 07:59:28 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 08:13:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 0 true Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 27 09:51:25 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:21:40 -0700 2009
Judging from the reviews below, a lot of people are put off by reading a book that's, in large part, about people who love to read books. Go figure. I also wonder if any of our reviewers below think Ulysses pretentious because of t...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 0 false Mon Jan 05 17:59:24 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 18:21:07 -0800 2009 Posession, this book is built around a massive literary construction: the staging of a play about Queen Elizabeth. It's the first novel in a tetralogy and, unfortunately, each novel in the series is a bit weaker than its predecessor. (I haven't read th...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Jul 20 17:59:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 18:02:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 0 false Sun Jan 18 08:31:44 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 08:36:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Jul 29 20:46:06 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 11 21:34:31 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 29 20:46:06 -0700 2009 Possession A Romance -- the layers and intricacy and miles of allusion I'll never hope to catch worked in Possession. This book is one of Byatt's earlier books, and I didn't follow or enjoy the Byzantine (or really Elizabethan, I suppose) complexity as ...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 2 0 false Sun May 18 15:36:48 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 15:36:48 -0700 2008
After a while, I ceased to be annoyed by obscure referen...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 4 0 false Thu Jul 12 16:49:34 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 20 14:22:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:02:29 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 06:29:34 -0700 2009
This book has some interesting characters, but there's no back and forth in history, and no puzzle to solve. It is (so far), stric...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Oct 27 18:09:54 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 18:14:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 4 0 false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 09:44:04 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 12 18:55:04 -0700 2008 1
I meet characters th...more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 21:59:26 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 22:04:06 -0800 2009
Liz]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 3 0 false Sat Jul 18 19:15:40 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 29 17:20:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 05:34:19 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 05:36:43 -0700 2009 86888 0679738290 9780679738299 575 55 3.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86888.The_Virgin_in_the_Garden_A_Novel 5 0 false Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 01:34:05 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 01:37:00 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=86888