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ClareR (5874 KP) rated Uncommon Type: Some Stories in Books

Dec 31, 2017  
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.6 (7 Ratings)
Book Rating
Where to next?
To play it safe, I borrowed this book from the library - who knows what to expect from an actor who has decided that he wants to write? To say that I'm surprised by this collection of short stories would be an understatement. They have an old fashioned feel to them: the use of language reminds me of movies set in the 20s - 30s. Perhaps it's because he typed them all up on one of his old-fashioned typewriters? Some interesting stories: a bit of time travel, a couple of immigrant stories and much more (it's a big book!). The newspaper-column type stories didn't do it for me, I'm afraid, and I skipped them.
I'm interested to see where he goes with this next!!
  
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Hag 12 Down (6 KP) Dec 31, 2017

Thanks for this I'm going to add it to my list to read in 2018.
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Monica (3 KP) Jan 6, 2018

Interested in reading this book now
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David McK (3557 KP) rated Sword of Kings in Books

Oct 27, 2019  
Sword of Kings
Sword of Kings
Bernard Cornwell | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.5 (2 Ratings)
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The latest (at the time of writing) in Bernard Cornwell's series of books about the making of England, and we're now a lifetime on from Alfred (the Great's) death, with Alfred himself being a key player in those earlier books.

However, Uhtred is still tied to Alfred's family by various oaths he has made over the years, with one such oath causing him to leave his (reclaimed) homeland of Northumbria, and in particular Bebbanburg, and travel south in an attempt to fulfil that oath.

With large portions of this novel set mainly in and around London (or Lundene), this felt to me somewhat like a bridging novel, setting up the future status quo and laying seeds from what is still to come (the unification of England)