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Released 4 yrs ago (10/25/2007 UTC) at Malvern Post Office in Melbourne, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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Sorry, this took a bit longer to read than it should have (Mr Bear's fifth birthday, with associated party and small boys running amok throughout the house and screaming with joy - take that! backpackers across the road!) and I kept on forgetting bits while I was reading. Definitely not one of my better efforts!However, when I found the time and energy to concentrate, it was a bit of a ripsnorter of a read. Great language and descriptions, a wonderful morality tale with very little setting-up - we were dumped straight into it, and it was fascinating seeing the poverty and underworld crime of a place I'd only ever thought of in terms of Prince George and the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. I particularly liked it towards the end when The Boy (aka Pinkie) wonders if he'll have to massacre the whole world. A great sense of impending doom, as things go wrong (and wronger and wrongest) and Pinkie is forced into more and more tortuous acts to save himself from the law and from grinding poverty. My complaint would be that they were all fairly unpleasant characters. Pinkie and his henchmen weren't the sort of people you'd want to spend time with; Rose was fairly pathetic and, in my less generous moments, not really worth saving. Ada, however, was the life of the party. Shame she wasn't in it nearly enough! I'd be very curious to see the movie. (Wow, one of the earlier Doctor Whos played one of the henchmen! I must track down this movie now!) I spent most of the book imaging Richard Attenborough as Pinkie, so imagine my surprise when I read the back of the book afterwards to find out that he was Pinkie in the screen adaptation! I've either heard of the movie before, or I skimmed the back of the book when it arrived and that fact sunk into my unconsciousness. I have L1nda's address, so shall pop this in the post next week. Thanks for sharing, livrecache! UPDATE 26 NOV 2007: Popped in the post today. Happy reading! |
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