VT
Slabface
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Post by VT on Oct 16, 2006 9:11:07 GMT
Just wondering if anybody has any opinions of the novel? I really enjoyed it, but was wondering if people actually deem the novel a classic of English literature or not?
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ruthie
Su Pollard
I'm not Miss March, Miss May, or Miss anything else! I'm Miss Madolyn Hayes and I own this dump!
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Post by ruthie on Oct 16, 2006 15:35:09 GMT
It has featured in a hollyoaks storyline, surely that establishes it as a classic!
Actually I love it, but more in a it's really clever sort of way than an empathising and liking the character sort of way - the levels of narration have a really subtle sort of ambiguity, and I find the more you read it the less you have a sense of what is real and who to believe - I can't think of any other book does as well, except perhaps Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assasin'.
And now I will stop talking like I've just escaped from an english lit seminar. I miss uni.
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Post by thelovelykate on Oct 17, 2006 10:28:20 GMT
I think this book is great but not a great love story at all. I don't even think it's meant to be a great love story and it annoys me when people bang on about how romantic it is. I think it is a great story about obsession and misery.
I re-read it again last summer and it also has cracking bits of black comedy in it as well.
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Post by Nick on Oct 17, 2006 14:17:11 GMT
I like the picture on the cover of my copy. It's like Where's Wally?, but set on a moor and without any other people in the picture at all.
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