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?
By, Bill Bryson
4.5 out of 5 for me
Bryson has an excellent talent for mixing humor with the more somber details of deforestation and misuse of federal funding. This is an autobiographical book, and he is startling honest about his own pitfalls as well as those of his companions.
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`Darkling`
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Pratchett is in fine form, full of word play and riotous humour that can't help but make you chuckle every now and then.
Just easy-to-read good fun that is a welcome break from the more serious stuff. 3.5 stars out of 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Firstly, Eucalyptus by Murray Bail. As much as I loved the writing, the premise for the novel was pretty thin. A man with a daughter approaching marriageable age, a father wanting to protect his daughter from the wiles of men with less than honorable intentions, sets a stern test for the hand of his beautiful daughter, To be eligible, name correctly every one of the more than 500 species of Eucalyptus growing on the property.
This has the elements of a modern fairy tale romance but the concept quickly runs out of steam.
The novel has been well-praised - it won the 1999 Miles Franklin Award - but I have read other reviews from readers who simply hated it.
I am giving it the benefit of the doubt with 4 out of 5 (only just), but I much preferred one of Bail's other works, Holden's Performance.
Secondly, Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark was a novel that captivated me from the start, and I enjoyed it even more than Spark's more well-known The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
The novel is narrated by Fleur Talbot, an author who takes a secretarial job with Sir Quentin Oliver and the Autobiographical Association. This is a group of eclectic characters who have come under the influence of Sir Quentin with a view to writing their own autobiographies, although Fleur is engaged to make them more interesting, with little regard for the actual truth.
Meanwhile, Fleur is writing her own first novel, Warrender Chase, and trying to get it published. When it becomes known , and a copy is stolen and read by Sir Quentin and others members of the Association, there are dastardly attempts to suppress its publication, because people believe it is about them.
Spark has created a delightful and amusing mix of characters and an energetic plot in this novel about writing novels, about art and life imitating each other. I am giving this one 4.5 stars, just short of the full 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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