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The Crimson Petal and the White

Michel Faber

Start date: April 1, 2015

Finish date: April 30, 2015

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March read - Ham on Rye
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Mar 18, 2018 Ying Ying rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: big-books, historical-fiction

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

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Apr 28, 2015 Irene rated it liked it

Three-fourths of the way through the novel I was ready to write my review. This is an example of literary fusion, a novelistic mash up of “Jane Eyre” and “Debbie Does Dallas”. I was prepared to admit some ambivalence, appreciative of the strong writing while being put off by the endless rounds of explicit sex and the apparent rip off of a classic story line. But, the plot line redeemed itself in the final part of the book, delivering an unexpected conclusion. I still think it could have been sub ...more

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