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Reading in Labour

12 December, 2003
Posted in: Reading etc.

I have just finished a dreadful book.  Dreadful in content and dreadful in prose style. I am so pleased to have polished it off. I feel compelled to finish something once I’ve started it.  I suspect I am the only person to have read the Phaidon coffee table book of the century thing cover to cover.  This is a character flaw, I know.

I have to give a plug to the best book I’ve read this year.  It’s called “What I Loved” by Siri Hustvedt.  It is outstanding, a page turner with in-depth art and hysteria references.  Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Worst book I have read this year is undoubtedly “Cold Mountain” by Charles Frazier.  I took it into hospital with me when I went into labour and two days later when I had my baby I was still wading through it.  Who cares about this man and his trip back to Cold Mountain?  Why was this book awarded a prize?  What possessed the author to make it so bloody long?

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  1. Lucy says

    11 February, 2010 at 10:41

    I’ve only just found you, and this post has made me laugh alot. A friend (tooting squared) and I have an ongoing joke about Cold Mountain having regrettably been to see the film. Glad to know others think just as dimly of it as us!

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