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This may be a good book - it may even be a GREAT book. However, it is not for me.
Dark, dismal, daunting, disturbing, depressing... DONE.
Dark, dismal, daunting, disturbing, depressing... DONE.
In terms of prose style this is one of the strongest books of the forty odd on a list of recommended historical fiction I've been reading through. The beginning directly addresses the reader as "you" and the narrator is an "I" who promises to be our guide into the heart of Victorian London. The prose was elegant and lyrical even as it spread before us the sordid details and rank smells of the worse of London's slums, introducing us to a prostitute, who eventually introduces us to the character w
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Awful. One of the few books I could not finish.
Jan 04, 2010
Angela Randall
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This has just been made into A BBC production (apparently Michel Faber is a fan of how it turned out), so it might be worth reading this sooner rather than later.
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