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]]> 31245384 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:33:34 -0700 Comment1213412 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21514898 Jackie's review of Shikasta: Re-colonised Planet 5 (Voyager Classics)
by Doris May Lessing

Then you have to watch Dexter. And Veronica Mars. Which I will lend you. ]]> 31245007 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:30:16 -0700 Review27195654 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27195654 Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita (Hardcover) by Elisabeth Ladenson
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]]> 31242023 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:08:28 -0700 Review27193379 http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27193379 to: A Long Fatal Love Chase (Paperback) by Louisa May Alcott
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Strangely reading Heyer's 'Devil's cub' reminded me of this book. They have similarities with the axis of the books partly turning on ruining (or potentially ruining) a woman's character (basically the whole wife/mistress issue).

But mostly it's the male protagonists, Dominic the Marquis of Vidal from Heyer and Phillip Tempest from Alcott. Of course Dominic becomes a reformed rake when he falls in love while Phillip goes unrepentant to his death (via suicide, after haunting and pursuing the poor girl he ruined to a tragic death).

Anyway, back to my review, events in the novel do seem fairly melodramatic and you do have the sense of the novel originally intended for serialisation. However, what I fell in love with were the characters, would are incredibly vividly drawn and whom you get a strong sense of. They make the story, which flies quickly (too quicky) from one seeming improbabilty to another.

And that's another issue I had with the book. It's soo romanticised as to sound completely preposterous, but raises some valid ideas. The power of the rich over the poor, the idea of reputation, and the 'hero' basically stalking the heroine around Europe and destroying every new life she's made for herself. It is frightening but somehow looses the effect through the overdramatising of the situation. ]]>