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Registered by livrecache of Hobart, Tasmania Australia on 9/15/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
I've yet to read I David Lodge book I didn't like, so I grabbed this when I saw it today for the princessly sum of one dollar.
Well, to be honest, I was a tad disappointed by this book. It was a playscript, that's very obvious. And there's been no development from that. It's also very dated. I expect I should have enjoyed it as a play, ten years ago. Still, it was an entertaining-enough read on a sleepless night.
Reserved for the Oz VBB 24 October
Selected by RockDg9 in Round 4 -- posting 13 November
Reserved for the Oz VBB 24 October
Selected by RockDg9 in Round 4 -- posting 13 November
Journal Entry 3 by livrecache at OZ VBB in Melbourne, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Monday, November 12, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (11/12/2007 UTC) at OZ VBB in Melbourne, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases
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RELEASE NOTES:
Another one off and running in the OZ VBB stakes, Round 4.
Another one off and running in the OZ VBB stakes, Round 4.
Thanks! It's here.
Novella treatment of a screen-play written by David Lodge and set in 1997. Retired author Adrian Ludlow is convinced by his old friend screen-writer Sam Sharp to get back at a reporter who wrote a negative article about Sharp.
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I knew the ending was coming from nearly the beginning of the story, and it made me not want to read it. I got very upset on page 5 when I saw what was coming, but I did continue on. This was very well written, I can see it as a play. It has a great depth of character, and the exploration of the themes of media and celebrity was brilliantly conceived. And knowing what was coming in the end just heightened this.
Possible spoilers ... highlight to view:
I knew the ending was coming from nearly the beginning of the story, and it made me not want to read it. I got very upset on page 5 when I saw what was coming, but I did continue on. This was very well written, I can see it as a play. It has a great depth of character, and the exploration of the themes of media and celebrity was brilliantly conceived. And knowing what was coming in the end just heightened this.
Journal Entry 6 by RockDg9 at Westridge Shopping Centre, West Street in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Released 14 yrs ago (7/1/2009 UTC) at Westridge Shopping Centre, West Street in Toowoomba, Queensland Australia
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WILD RELEASE NOTES: Left on a bench out the front.
Released as a part of the Invisible Inc. Secret society of bibliophiles challenge.
