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Just wasn't feeling this one
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This was just okay for me. The mystery was pretty solid but slow (could have been the narrator) and it wasn’t good enough to make up for the pretty consistent racism all the way through. I recognize that some of that is the time period in which it was written but, still no.
Meh. I did not like this book at all. I found myself drrraaagggiiinnng through it. It was a reasonably quick read, but I don't understand all the positive reviews on here for it...
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I so enjoy Lord Peter. I love his fool act, and how Dorothy L. Sayers plays with the words and manages to make this very like Wodehouse. Agatha Christie's early novels have some of that same humor and lightness.
I had forgotten his shell shock. Being reminded of the "Sams" of the world was good. Bunter takes care of his lord, but who takes care of Bunter? Do the common soldiers and footmen not suffer from shell shock, because they don't "carry the responsibility"? Did people really think of PTSD ...more
I had forgotten his shell shock. Being reminded of the "Sams" of the world was good. Bunter takes care of his lord, but who takes care of Bunter? Do the common soldiers and footmen not suffer from shell shock, because they don't "carry the responsibility"? Did people really think of PTSD ...more
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