[ebooktalk] Re: CURRENT AND RECENT READS
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:08:32 +0100
Hi Ian,
I have to agree with you about the Amanda Prowse. There were certain bits of
the book that were very interesting, but I found some passages rather amature
in style. Some scenes were too formulaic, for example the episode in the pub
where all the locals were dead against having the young offenders centre near
by and the speaches that won them all round. However, there were some touching
ideas in there, for example the mother's attachments to the clothes pegs.
I wonder if this is an author that might improve over time.
Shell.
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From: "Ian Macrae" <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 12:28 PM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] CURRENT AND RECENT READS
> By jove, I must be reading at some speed on my phone. Yesterday during
> journeys to and from work, a bit over lunch time and some in the evening at
> home I read one of Shell's september books, what Have I done by amanda Prows.
> Bits of it were brilliantly evocative, particularly the private abusive
> moments between the husband and wife. At other times the characters came
> across as entirely two dimensional. but it explored some interesting issues,
> in particular the reaction of children to the killing of one parent by
> another. Incidentally, the form which much of the abuse took was nicked from
> The ciderhouse Rules. also I found the ending deeply dissatisfying.
>
> I've now moved on to one of yesterday's Kindle daily deal books, a massive
> biography of Muhammad ali which is mainly riveting. It's his life story told
> in the words of ali himself and those of friends, associates and journalists.
> The other interesting thing about this book is that in its Kindle format it
> includes both audio and video galleries.
>
> I started an gave up on snow by Clifford Ryan. this concerns the arrival
> in Britain of an unusually large and intense snow event one December. It is
> made up mainly of a number of unconnected accounts of unconnected people
> meeting their various ends in the snow. Other characters are poorly and
> unconvincingly drawn including a prime minister who is just unbelievable. At
> the centre, I suspect, is an Air Force hero who I guess will restore
> everything to normality.
>
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