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刘 婧 _311 — Not as offensive as Blood Meridian, but still painfully fake. And the horse fetishizing is just ridiculous.

Laura Duggan _aura_uggan — I haven't read this in years, but I remember how right it felt reading it. Quick read, much more serious than many of her time travel books.

Gary Hili garyhili — most people say that this is a fabulous book. my HS english teacher had us write down every time the world "solitude" was used and explain the context. UGH. totally ruined the book for me!

Amandine Kolly amandinekolly — Those chess diagrams slowed me down a bit, but I started to find myself consulting them to figure out the culprit by the end. I love being kept guessing until the almost end!

Lodisl Lodisl lodi_sl8625 — This was a really clever gradual unfolding of friendship and the suffering undergone by the captive population of Guernsey during the occupation of the Third Reich during the early 1940's. Its all recounted by letters and as a result of this I have seen it compared favourably and unfavourably to ' 84 Charing Cross Road ' and its letter technique but this is surely an unfair comparison as the latter is not a novel recounting an imagined story and imagined love and friendship which can always have twists and turns to tweak the heart strings but rather a true account through the letters of a man and women coming to sympathy and friendship through the books they hunt and find. This novel, for such it is, is a quite different creation. A writer is contacted by a man from the island who has come into possession of one of her books and, using the address in the flyleaf( see mum there is some point to doing that even if in pencil ), he writes to her and thus begins the narrative as through his and her letters and those of the other members of the eponymous society this incredible recounting of german occupation and cruelty, german courage and generosity, islander decency, courage and love, islander snobbery, blind stupidity and predjudice opens out. The thing I found impressive is the letters did resonate with different voices which was wonderful this being a hazard sometimes not overcome in books where a number of narrators contribute. The one caveat in my song of praise, well two actually, firstly i did wonder whether there were slightly too many letter writers and that subtracted from the overall affect but that would be a very minor criticism the larger would be concerning the character of the island bitch who wrote a number of ridiculously stupid letters dipped in bigotry and predjudice; i don't think I am particularly innocent or naive and know, sadly, that i am not unusually pleasant but I always find this type of blind bigotry and rudeness unbelievable. Don't get me wrong, I realize there are horrible people around but in novels of this type the petty viciousness and cruelty seems to be there more often to move plot along or to creat a hiss boo pantomime villain then to fill a genuine aspect of human reality. Having said that, this was a book I really loved. It was astoundingly moving and heartbreaking in parts, the journey of the main characters to ' fulfillment' was emminently satisfying and believable and the humour expressed in the letters was sometimes laugh out loud funny. I think it is so worth reading if you want the opportunity to smile, laugh, sharply intake breath, whimper, sob out loud and then smile some more...not necessarily in that order but you get my drift. I promise you, you will be smiling at the end.