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Savoured is right, Warwick. The same is true of the Italian film of it with Burt Lancaster.
I haven't seen it yet! Was saving it for finishing the novel, which I finally got around to on a trip to Sicily. The Netflix series looks pretty good as well.
I had never heard of this book until The Book Club podcast did a recent episode about it. It sounds really interesting! I think the changes in style toward the end may be because Lampedusa died before finishing the book to his own satisfaction.
Yes, you can definitely feel that it would have benefited from a little more finessing in the second half. But it's so great anyway that you can't really complain too much.
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Savoured is right, Warwick. The same is true of the Italian film of it with Burt Lancaster.
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I haven't seen it yet! Was saving it for finishing the novel, which I finally got around to on a trip to Sicily. The Netflix series looks pretty good as well.
I had never heard of this book until The Book Club podcast did a recent episode about it. It sounds really interesting! I think the changes in style toward the end may be because Lampedusa died before finishing the book to his own satisfaction.
Yes, you can definitely feel that it would have benefited from a little more finessing in the second half. But it's so great anyway that you can't really complain too much.