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Mr and Mrs Ransom have been burgled and the first thing they talk about is whether the correct term would be "burgled" or "robbed."
Everything was taken and I mean EVERYTHING. Not the everything one would normally mean: cash, electronics, jewelry and furs. Everything. The chairs and sofas, the rugs, the bed and all the linens, the half-used bottle of hair dye, the toilet paper, the oven and the casserole that had been cooking inside it. Everything. They don't own cell phones, and all of their wi ...more
Everything was taken and I mean EVERYTHING. Not the everything one would normally mean: cash, electronics, jewelry and furs. Everything. The chairs and sofas, the rugs, the bed and all the linens, the half-used bottle of hair dye, the toilet paper, the oven and the casserole that had been cooking inside it. Everything. They don't own cell phones, and all of their wi ...more
A very short book, Bennet's tale is about an older couple that returns home from the opera to find all their belongings burgled. The talk about materialism and possessions is as much of an issue today as it was twenty years ago, yet the story feels too much like a short story to cover much of this topic. Still a good story and a good conversation starter for a book club.
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It started out with a neat premise and went downhill rapidly from there.
Feb 17, 2014
Deedee
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
contemporary-fiction,
today-show-book-club
Aug 15, 2017
Terri
marked it as own
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review of another edition
Shelves:
humorous-writings,
writer-alan-bennett
Oct 02, 2020
Vesra (When She Reads)
marked it as to-read
