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There are times (they come around really quite often) when good dry textbook history takes a plunge into the old swamps of myth and has to be retrieved with empirical fishing lines. History, being an accredited sub-science, only wants to know the facts. History, if it is to keep on constructing its road into the future, must do so on solid ground. At all costs let us avoid mystery-making and speculations, secrets and idle gossip. And, for God's sake, nothing supernatural. And above, all let us n...more
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I read this wonderful novel once before, back in 2001, and it meant a lot to me then. It meant just as much this time around.
This is a beautiful, intriguing story. It is told out of order, with many outcomes told before their circumstances, but events at the end still felt fresh and even a little unpredictable. I love Tom's meandering storytelling and the way he remarks on his own thoughts - it's like reading a novel with the author's own notes in the margins. I like that the vast majority of t ...more
This is a beautiful, intriguing story. It is told out of order, with many outcomes told before their circumstances, but events at the end still felt fresh and even a little unpredictable. I love Tom's meandering storytelling and the way he remarks on his own thoughts - it's like reading a novel with the author's own notes in the margins. I like that the vast majority of t ...more
A marvelous book. Lyrical writing, bleak landscape slithering with eels and storytelling interwoven so intricately that the characters and their tales creep up on the reader. I've never seen the Fens, but feel like I've been there after reading this book. Highly recommended.
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I struggled through this book. I may have picked the wrong time of year to pick up this slim volume, but it was just a little dry and I felt no connection to the narrator which made the other characters harder to understand.
Oct 13, 2007
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