[ebooktalk] Re: SEEING THE UPSIDE
- From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
- To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:30:35 +0100
Shall I post it or can you access it on your computer Shell?
On 5 Jun 2013, at 18:05, Shell wrote:
> I would like to read that book Ian, I'm interested in his novels.
> Shell.
>
>
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> From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:57 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] SEEING THE UPSIDE
>
> > Today has been filled with frustration as I've grappled with the soviet
> > style bureaucracy which surrounds renewing my blue badge in Ealing.
> > However, the time that I've spent doing this has also enabled me to read an
> > entire book. It's one which has been mentioned on this list before, The
> > comfort of Strangers by Ian McKewan. It is not a book to be taken lightly
> > if, like me you live with high levels of anxiety. the threat of the
> > indeterminate evil is very unsettling and this is part of the achievement
> > of the book so that the end comes almost as a relief, and not just to the
> > reader but to one of the protagonists too. He's another author of whom I'm
> > usually wary having had some bad trips into his fiction, but this was
> > gripping and helped me keep my temper in check.
> >
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