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What is distracting you from your Chunkster right now? (a.k.a. what else are you reading?)
By Loretta · 393 posts · 271 views
By Loretta · 393 posts · 271 views
last updated Apr 27, 2013 01:19PM
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Mar 18, 2018
Ying Ying
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it was ok
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This is one of the few cases where I enjoyed the movie adaptation more than the book itself.
The book is too long for the plot that it contains. Too many mundane details of people's life. This book might be good if one were to study the life in Victorian age; however, the pace is too slow for a novel (at least for my taste). The narrative style would sometimes take me out of the story. In particular, I disliked the various questions that the author tried to pose me as a reader. I wanted him to a ...more
The book is too long for the plot that it contains. Too many mundane details of people's life. This book might be good if one were to study the life in Victorian age; however, the pace is too slow for a novel (at least for my taste). The narrative style would sometimes take me out of the story. In particular, I disliked the various questions that the author tried to pose me as a reader. I wanted him to a ...more
Michel Faber's amazing take on women in the 1870s primarily cuts it right to the heart of it all: the pampered but bewildered wife, the ignored daughter, the fierce mistress, the sorry women servants, the misbegotten social ladies, the equally-messed up church ladies all have one thing in common-- the abuse from the men in their lives. Was Faber saying that all women are 'molested' for the rankest of reasons - fragile male ego? The writing style toward the last chapter picked up a fascinating pa
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Apr 13, 2016
Kim
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Jun 28, 2016
Francis
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Oct 05, 2016
Taz
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Sep 07, 2020
Criss
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Dec 08, 2020
Diana Karen
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Mar 01, 2021
Frezita
marked it as to-read
