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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764355.The_Ebony_Tower?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Ebony Tower" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1178148166m/764355.gif" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764355.The_Ebony_Tower?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Ebony Tower</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10039.John_Fowles">John Fowles</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5930950?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 1 of 5 stars<br/>The only book in which I've cheered the burning of a manuscript. I read it years ago, and I still remember hating its smugness and assumption of shared values (civilisation, high culture, nice accents, blah blah, , values that Fowles doesn't even begin to possess (except maybe the accent). There was a fabulous hatchet job on his Diaries by Ian Sansom in the London Review of Books. Read it if you can... <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/191480?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>