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Faulks's writing is gorgeous and his insights into the nature of love are both tender and sad. This is the second in the France-during-the-wars trilogy, of which I have only read "Birdsong." My main problem was when the secret of Anne's past is finally revealed, it is by Anne telling Charles in a long conversation, and throughout the rest of the novel, we are given only Charles's point of view of what Anne has endured. This follows a general pattern of dipping into and out of Anne's point of view but it feels a bit of a cheat. The ending is all at once sad and hope and inconclusive. ]]>
Krakauer is a crackerjack writer -- I've been a fan since his "Outside" and "Rolling Stone" days -- and this book would have been a five except for the distasteful subject matter and the preponderance of long footnotes. ]]>
Darn. I really wanted to like this book. I'm a fan of all the other Sarah Waters books; I love the writing, the history, and the attention to detail. But I'm NOT a fan of the unreliable narrator or the "Turn of the Screw" ambiguity. Halfway through this novel, I began to become seriously impatient, and the ending left me quite confused.
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lot of Scottish authors here. I'm just sayin' ]]>
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