21 July 2010
Worse, a robot!
Deborah Friedell · More blurbs
'It's the kind of book Jane Austen would've written if she'd been male and hipper.'
'It's The Name of the Rose if Sean Connery's character was a conglomeration of self-aware spores instead of a medieval monk.'
'If Virginia Woolf had a younger sister with a passionate interest in icebergs – '
'This book is probably the first introduction to disciplined introspection in over 100 years.'
'A powerful depiction of humanity personified.'
'George has fallen in love with Lucy. A prostitute. Worse, a robot.'
'No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle.'
'James Brabazon has written a fully-adrenalised book.'
'If Joan London never writes another word, The Good Parents is more than enough.'
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21 July 2010
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1:20pm
Martin
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‘No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle.’
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21 July 2010
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2:55pm
Geoff Roberts
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@
Martin
What about Bob Hawke indeed? My favourite ‘No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Joseph Stalin."
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21 July 2010
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2:33pm
Chris Larkin
says:
Amy Sackville did say in an interview that if she could go back in time she would go back to 1922. Virginia Woolf was certainly in the news that year but maybe the furore over icebergs had died down by then?
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21 July 2010
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2:54pm
Geoff Roberts
says:
Make you want to read the books, don't they? All right, here's one for you to guess at: "Lucky Jim fifty years earlier."
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21 July 2010
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3:56pm
pinhut
says:
Interesting efforts, but I raise you this jacket quote to a Penguin Books edition of Good Soldier, Svejk
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21 July 2010
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5:06pm
jaf
says:
it's a seagoing fantasy yarn that is like 'Gulliver's Travels crossed with The Golden Compass and a dollop of Pride and Prejudice.
Read moreYou must have made that one up! Anyway, what about Bob Hawke?
"Perhaps the funniest novel ever written." —George Monbiot
The fact that these eight words did not draw worldwide condemnation and threats of reprisals is, frankly, beyond me.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/13/choir-boats-free-ya.html