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I'd like to second Saramago's The Double. I'd like to second Saramago's The Double. :) :)

I had the same problem with this one that I had with The Historian--I just wasn't interested in the surrounding story. Vampires--bleh. Carax, yawn. Dumas, been there, done that. There's a whole slough of nicely written, historically vivid literary thrillers out there (Perez-Reverte springs to...

I envy you your response to the book--other people I know have felt very much the same way about it. Me, not so much :( I am a huge fan of alot of the more offbeat old Georgian and Victorian authors and their heirs, so I just couldn't get past John Crowley's writing, which to my ear (and...

I thought the book initially raised a great number of really good questions about families, and the roles assigned to individuals within families, and the consequences of those roles... but the last quarter of the book was sooooo cheesy (to my eye, at least) that it simply expunged all the...

many thanks, Halo! In that case I'll find myself a forum directly and belly-flop on in :) unhhhhh, after I've cooked dinner for the ravening hordes, that is :eek:

Hiyas! Glad to find y'all, happy to be here :) I spend a fair amount of time reading and am extremely interested in the ways people experience pieces of writing. Love the discussions here, look forward to joining in eventually.