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Dirty Great Love Story

Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna

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Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In...

Melanie Caldicott (6 KP) rated A Quiet Belief in Angels in Books

Apr 29, 2021

Found I kept loving and hating this book simultaneously. It was compelling and, as I had correctly guessed the murderer from about a third of the way through the book wanted to keep reading to find out whether I was right or not.

However, I found the prose clunky with clumsy metaphors which felt shoehorned in at times. I also found the narrative of the protagonist Joseph tiresome at times, particularly when there were pious judgemental statements being made in a way that felt you were being preached at.

Overall I would say the plot was compelling and intriguing but the writing style lets the book down.

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Dispatches: Picador Classic

Michael Herr, Kevin Powers | 2015 | Biography

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"Herr, who recently passed away, was one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth-century. Reading Herr is immensely instructive and hopeful; he always makes me feel that, yes, the English language can be used to interrogate any dilemma, no matter how complex. Herr’s rich, high-culture/pop-culture language and his stunning level of erudition allow him to put all doubts and counterarguments into play and create a sturdy mosaic of ambiguity, with an affectionate but skeptical mind at the center of it. I wish he was still with us and writing about this moment – there’s no one I would trust more."

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