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L said:
"I'm just to pg. 10 and the sheer quantity of drugs involved is amazing! The tale, so far, is also engaging. Bad boys have their place."
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| The book is, rather obviously, about three sisters. Dad is a Shakespeare scholar, hence the title. Mom has cancer. The adult sisters, none of them raging successes, have come home. Mom is the excuse; disappointment-with-life/failure is the reason. So...more | |
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Well, hell. Who'd think you might find a hardboiled mystery set in Scotland? I mean, I visited Scotland once, long ago, and it struck me as quite a sleepy place where nothing much could happen beyond sheep blocking a roadway. That's not the Scotla...
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"Unless no one ever kills anyone in Scotland, there's a place for hard-boiled. Sounds good. If only you had it in print, so I could just borrow the dar...more
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the first half of this book is prose poetry written in what i can best describe as trinidadian english, because that is the island-english i've heard that most closely approximates the language of this book. maybe it's another island. certainly it...
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| Hogan's story telling, combined with his writing style, is so marvelous that you almost don't care whether or not there is a plot. Only a few pages in, I found myself laughing out loud. But of course there is a plot and it will be revealed. Meanwhile...more | |
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Should be interesting to read this a few weeks after seeing "Blanca Nieves." I prefer the film. Maguire tells an interesting story, setting the tale of Snow White in a particular historical period. The book is good, but just didn't grab me the way "Wi...more |
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