Journal Entry 1 by Geegal on Saturday, August 07, 2004

From Library Journal
Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in 19th-century literature at a university located in the fictitious English Midlands city of Rummidge. Vic Wilcox is managing director of Pringle's, an industrial casting company located in a grimy suburb. They are thrown together as part of a "shadow scheme" concocted by their superiors in response to a governmentally ordained "Industry Year." Entering into the arrangement with considerable skepticism and lack of appreciation for the other's mode of life, they get off to a rocky start, but then slowly develop a mutual respect and even liking for each other (and in Vic's case something more). Nice Work is, indeed, a "nice" novel. Lodge spoofs in a nonjudgmental way both the pretensions of academia and the materialism of the upper-middle business class. While lacking in stylistic elegance, this is a well-told tale full of gentle humor that should, despite its setting, have broad appeal to Americans. 

Journal Entry 2 by Geegal at Mailed to a fellow BookCrosser in Postal Release, Book Relay -- Controlled Releases on Monday, March 14, 2005

Released 7 yrs ago (3/14/2005 UTC) at Mailed to a fellow BookCrosser in Postal Release, Book Relay -- Controlled Releases

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enjoy!!! 

Journal Entry 3 by Flicki from Emden, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, March 19, 2005

Woooohooo! Thank you so much for this wishlist relay book! :-) 

Journal Entry 4 by Flicki from Emden, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, August 06, 2005

Incredible: I finished the book! It took me ages to read and I don't really regret the book is over now. It was rather boring. I mean, it was tedious is a charming way... with little side remarks here and every now and then a beautiful pun there... one can see why Lodge has become such a big candidate for the ESL/EFL canon, but come on, it was still boring! ;-) The story was quite close to life, though, which I really appreciated in this book. But a short story about this item would have been sufficient!

I've already traded this book in a book relay and hope to send it on after the weekend. 

Journal Entry 5 by Flicki from Emden, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, August 13, 2005

Traveling to cheesegiraffe now! :-) 

Journal Entry 6 by cheesygiraffe from Florence, Alabama USA on Friday, August 19, 2005

Received today. Thanks so very much, Flicki. :) 

Journal Entry 7 by cheesygiraffe from Florence, Alabama USA on Thursday, June 28, 2007

Drastically thinning out my TBR shelves and making this AVL.