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This Month's Book Club Selection - Mysterious Affair at Styles
By Jessica · 2 posts · 37 views
By Jessica · 2 posts · 37 views
last updated Jan 13, 2010 09:18AM
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AQotWF didn't hold up to my memory of it. There are too many first-person and quasi-first person accounts with greater insight and of higher literary quality. This worked as the thoughts of a not-very-well-educated nineteen-year old, but the verisimilitude made it far less compelling to me than the accounts of the officer class. And the end was just cheesy. Remarque had it both ways; a first-person account would end either abruptly with the obvious inference or with the narrator having survived,
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