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In a wonderfully compact novella, Julian Barnes manages to offer big and new insights into the themes of the lost loves of youth and whether it's better to flame out young or muddle on through life apparently offending no one.
You would not think that exploring such well-traveled ground it would be possible to find any nuggets worth saving and remembering, but Barnes uncovers a few keepsakes worth treasuring. Some of this is how he describes the agony of youth and dating in the time before the pi ...more
You would not think that exploring such well-traveled ground it would be possible to find any nuggets worth saving and remembering, but Barnes uncovers a few keepsakes worth treasuring. Some of this is how he describes the agony of youth and dating in the time before the pi ...more
I really loved this book, even more after the discussion on Goodreads. This passage describes dilemma of the main character, Tony, perfectly and gives a sense of the introspective nature of the book.
In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse--a feeling somewhere between self-pit and self-hatered--about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my w ...more
In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse--a feeling somewhere between self-pit and self-hatered--about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my w ...more
I wanted to like this so much more than I did. I really should stay away from anything that features English school boys.
This book left me with more questions than answers. It is cleverly conceived, well written, and ultimately unresolved, at least to my thinking. Was the point that memory is totally unreliable, or that we shape our memories to suit our own sense of well being? A little of both I suspect, but in this book, the ending really didn't make sense.
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Well-written, but not astoundingly so. I found it frustrating, as if Barnes were always dangling the carrot in front of me to keep me going, then yanking it away at the last minute.
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