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Read in October, 2009
mp3 Unabridged and superbly read by John Lee.
Dan Simmons is one cheapskate, tacky guy. I am verily outraged (hee, I do so love to be outraged from time to time) that so much time in Drood is given over to the premise of The Terror under the guise of The Frozen Deep. Flying under the literary radar like this is just revolting
Plug, plug, plug - grrr.
Anyway, this grating aspect aside, Drood has been seen and heard flitting, nay!, fair gliding around the train cra...more
Dan Simmons is one cheapskate, tacky guy. I am verily outraged (hee, I do so love to be outraged from time to time) that so much time in Drood is given over to the premise of The Terror under the guise of The Frozen Deep. Flying under the literary radar like this is just revolting
Plug, plug, plug - grrr.
Anyway, this grating aspect aside, Drood has been seen and heard flitting, nay!, fair gliding around the train cra...more
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Read in November, 2009
I read half of this 800 page book. At the middle, I realized it was taking a long time to get through and it was feeling like work. Also, I didn't care how it turned out. So I took it back to the library.
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Nov 22, 2009
Lisa
marked it as unfinished
To consider later...after reading more Dickens and Collins and perhaps a Dickens bio.
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Read in April, 2009
recommended to MBP by:
HNS forthcoming list; Booklist 1/1/09 (starred)
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2009,
books-about-books,
historical-fiction,
mystery,
new-fiction-literature,
the-stacks
Read in November, 2009
