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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
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when i first picked this up last year i couldn’t get past the second chapter. now i can’t stop flipping the pages.
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Buddy read with a friend of mine. I attempted to read this some time back and could not get past the second chapter due to other life’s circumstances. In many ways, I see myself in William Stoner, the grandson of farmers who adores literature, going through life one day at a time indulging in the pleasures he can occasionally find. It’s a poignant story, one that left me empty at the end and my thoughts reeling from what I had read. A masterful work from a master AT work.
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obviously this is probably a little of a biased sample group for this question but do you guys think a book is a good gift? SPECIFICALLY for people who are casual readers? like i've got some friends who are big into reading and then others who are more the average american side, where they'll read a couple to several books a year but aren't going wild. i've thought of a cute idea, doing like a book and a bookmark pairing for christmas, but i don't want to gift my friends d & e something they don't inherently like per se as much as friends a, b & c would enjoy. obviously there's plenty of time but i wanted some outside opinions, because i also don't want them to feel left out if they find out i did something coordinated for everyone else and then they got something they like but they can tell wasn't organized like the others.
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when i first picked this up last year i couldn’t get past the second chapter. now i can’t stop flipping the pages.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
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Nicked
M.T. Anderson
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my enjoyment of this was mixed. while i did enjoy the magnificent drawings and parts of the biography, i couldn’t help but wish there was…well, more. so much of this felt like a missed opportunity and the biography could have been more fleshed out and less dry. in any case, i did enjoy what i read but it was JUST good and not great like i imagined.
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it has taken me almost 2 years to finally finish this book after putting it down and picking it back down. the beginning of this book is so compelling and the plot hook will have you flipping the pages and then it just kept going and going and personally i felt as though it went onca bit too much for me leading to a less than satisfactory reading experience. i also REALLY did not like signa at times but the last half of the book is really where things pick up and it ended on a pretty interesting note. not sure if i will read the other books in the series, but as a first book this was good. just not great as i wanted it to be.
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Bromantasy
Máire Roche