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Nina asked this question about The Noise of Time:
I have really enjoyed Julian Barnes' writing, especially Sense of an Ending, but I am really struggling with his latest. Is anyone else feeling this way? I'm so disappointed but I haven't quite finished it yet - maybe it will come together in the last 50 pages.
Jane "After five years of Lenin's New Economic Policy, he had written to a friend that 'Heaven on Earth will come in 200,000,000,000 years.' But that, he n…more"After five years of Lenin's New Economic Policy, he had written to a friend that 'Heaven on Earth will come in 200,000,000,000 years.' But that, he now thought, might have been over-optimistic" (55). I am struggling, too, but passages like this keep me reading. (less)
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Nina Thank you, Jane. You are correct. As often happens, once a book is finished, contemplated and discussed, the appreciation comes. It was just that with ...more
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