What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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It begins in the town of Morecambe Bay on the remote north-west coast of England, where Cyril Parks is growing up in a guest hostel run by his widowed mother.
Teenage Cy becomes apprenticed to the town's resident tattooist, the cantankerous, drunken Elliot Riley, who becomes his mentor and tormentor. When Cy inherits the tattoo parlour upon Riley's death, Cy decides on a change of scenery and embarks for America.
He sets up his tattoo business, the Electric Michelangelo, on Coney Island in New York, in the 1930s, which is the scene of circuses, freak shows, bizarre entertainments and the haunt of a plethora of life's more colourful and eccentric characters.
Cy eventually returns to England, back to Morecambe, to see out his days, and keeps the cycle turning by taking on a young woman as an apprentice.
Hall's prose is stunningly descriptive and evocative, but always gritty, often crude, bordering on harsh, never seeking out the 'pretty' or traditional concepts of beauty, describing tough lives with no compromise and no apology, using the idioms of the times and the places where the story is set.
I simply loved the earthy realism of this novel and give it 4.5 stars out of 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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I give it 3/5 stars.
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Written in flowery poetic prose and a solid dose of sentimental, sappy poetry, it is one of those insipid romances, full of tender, sensitive men, beautiful but soppy women, waxing forever lyrically about both the unbridled joys and insufferable tribulations of life.
Fortunately, it was mercifully short - 2 stars out of 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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I would give it 5/5 cause the book was wonderful and her writing was so warm and hearty. Loved it.
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