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hermetic

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12. Well, yeah...

Sun Oct 21, 2018, 03:59 PM

Oct 2018

Love your A-game comment. I researched a little and found this review, which I think you might find useful:
I found the story slow-going and difficult for the first half of the book. But it definitely got better in the second half...
I question how this book won the Orange Prize for fiction for 2012. It's OK, but if you want the real and wonderful story read The Iliad.

Cool, thanks. Yes, I am finding it delightful so far.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 21, 2018? [View all] hermetic Oct 2018 OP

"Year Zero" by Jeff Long dameatball Oct 2018 #1

Oh my hermetic Oct 2018 #2

Just starting "Into the Water". I think "Ready Player One" was a much better sinkingfeeling Oct 2018 #3

That's normal, the book being better hermetic Oct 2018 #4

Think she's Paula Hawkins, who wrote "The Girl on the Train". sinkingfeeling Oct 2018 #6

Aha! hermetic Oct 2018 #8

The Iron Heel by Jack London Cousin Dupree Oct 2018 #5

I'd never heard of that one hermetic Oct 2018 #7

The Shining Girls exboyfil Oct 2018 #9

Good creepy stuff hermetic Oct 2018 #10

I love horror and ghost stories too...especially this time of year...going to try those Demsrule86 Oct 2018 #19

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller pscot Oct 2018 #11

Well, yeah... hermetic Oct 2018 #12

Eggshells by Caitriona Lally sagesnow Oct 2018 #13

Irish literary gem hermetic Oct 2018 #16

"The League of Frightened Men" by Rex Stout The King of Prussia Oct 2018 #14

Frightened Men? hermetic Oct 2018 #17

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware hostalover Oct 2018 #15

The plot sounds great hermetic Oct 2018 #18

Sounds like just my sort of thing The King of Prussia Oct 2018 #20

Still working on 1984, halfway though. violetpastille Oct 2018 #21

I really should hermetic Oct 2018 #22

Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami PoorMonger Oct 2018 #23

That sounds...well... hermetic Nov 2018 #24