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Devil May Care (James Bond)by: Sebastian Faulks May 28, 2008 |
List Price: £18.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £7.21 You Save: £11.78 (62%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £3.25 |
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Still worthy of a read but nowhere near as good as the original master 'Fleming'. The plot still draws you in but the outcome is predictable! When I bought this I purchased a novel from a new author 'De Marco Empire' and i found this to be much more exciting - on the edge of the seat stuff and definitely NOT predictable ... check it out!
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Birdsongby: Sebastian Faulks July 18, 1994 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.99 You Save: £3.00 (38%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 |
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Took this book on a recent 7 day holiday - it looked my sort of stuff.
Read about 40% of it then tossed it onto the holiday home library shelf and selected the best of what had been left. Birdsong is tedious and poorly written. The characters are not engaging - it's just not worth the eye power in reading it. A bit like the movie "Atonement" - it's not unpleasant, you could watch it, it will do no harm but there are many far far better films. Birdsong is touted as a modern classic - it is no such thing. >>More Details |
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Englebyby: Sebastian Faulks March 27, 2008 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £4.82 You Save: £3.17 (40%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £1.43 |
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Sebastian Faulks has taken a daring step with his latest novel, taking the reader deeper then his previous novels. Faulks opens the door into the mind of the eccentric and aloof Mike Engleby, forcing you to step into a world which often leaves you feeling uneasy and perplexed. Full of satirical humour and psychological undertones, this is a raw representation of a traditional English education, and its effects on one man.
Engleby begins his story in the 1970s whilst studying at Cambridge University, where we are given an account of his early school days. Growing up in a traditional English boarding school, Engleby coldly describes the bullying he was often subjected to and his only escape: stealing. This soon leads to an obsession and his fragile mental ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Devil May Careby: Sebastian Faulks May 28, 2008 |
List Price: £12.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £9.14 You Save: £3.85 (30%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £6.00 |
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Still worthy of a read but nowhere near as good as the original master 'Fleming'. The plot still draws you in but the outcome is predictable! When I bought this I purchased a novel from a new author 'De Marco Empire' and i found this to be much more exciting - on the edge of the seat stuff and definitely NOT predictable ... check it out!
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The Girl at the Lion d'Orby: Sebastian Faulks January 03, 1998 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.94 You Save: £2.05 (26%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 |
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This seemed slow to get going and I wasn't sure about it until just over half way through when Anne explained to Charles what happened to her father. This is a novel about the direct and indirect effects of the First World War on various members of French society as they move with fatalistic resignation towards the Second World War. It is also a love story built upon the successful evocation of an atmosphere of sexual tension with which readers of Birdsong will be familiar. It is not as good as that classic, but worth reading. 4/5 for the last 100 pages.
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Human Tracesby: Sebastian Faulks July 06, 2006 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.49 You Save: £2.50 (31%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 |
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Faulks' research into the background of this novel is thorough and he has produced a novel of magisterial scope and scale. Following two young boys from very different backgrounds as they enter the nascent discipline of psychiatry and embark on a pioneering journey, he takes in the terror of the insane asylums and the excitement of new and unusual treatments while nonetheless offering a captivating story with engaging characters who become personal friends by the end of the book.
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Charlotte Grayby: Sebastian Faulks July 01, 1999 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 |
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I had high hopes for this book, because I absolutely loved Birdsong, but I found it left me rather unmoved. It's written in what seems, to me at least, to be a curiously detached style and it didn't seem to really penetrate beneath the surface of the characters. Even amidst the danger of Occupied France, SS officers on trains, children being sent to concentration camps, the collaboration and resistance of the French, I never really cared very much about what happened to the characters. The one part that did affect me, the two young boys being sent to the gas chambers, was less about the specific fate of those two characters and more about the actual fate of the children who really were killed in the Holocaust. So, a disappointment, I would say.
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A Fool's Alphabetby: Sebastian Faulks January 03, 1998 |
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A real disappointment. 26 chapters entitled with a place name from A to Z. Clever but really just a gimic with little relevance. The chapters are not in chronological order. Another unnecessary gimic and really annoying, having to keep trying to remember what happened when. If you are going to read this book, do yourself a favour and read the chapters in time order, except perhaps the last chapter. However, even this is hardly a climax (no pun intended).
It is well written, but there is practically no story. "Birdsong" is one of the best books I have ever read. Sadly, Faulks seems to have lost his way since then. >>More Details |
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Birdsongby: Sebastian Faulks November 05, 2007 |
List Price: £16.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £10.99 You Save: £6.00 (35%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £7.49 |
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Took this book on a recent 7 day holiday - it looked my sort of stuff.
Read about 40% of it then tossed it onto the holiday home library shelf and selected the best of what had been left. Birdsong is tedious and poorly written. The characters are not engaging - it's just not worth the eye power in reading it. A bit like the movie "Atonement" - it's not unpleasant, you could watch it, it will do no harm but there are many far far better films. Birdsong is touted as a modern classic - it is no such thing. >>More Details |
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On Green Dolphin Streetby: Sebastian Faulks May 27, 2002 |
List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.54 You Save: £2.45 (31%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 |
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well written, but felt like some kind of writing exercise: soulless and unengaging. Interesting in as much as it gives a feel for the way 'big history' fits in with personal history, but you end up not caring about the characters and their outcomes.
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