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Re: Some interesting things in your list... a few that I really need to read. Rebekah Send a noteboard - 01/01/2012 04:02:41 PM
I'm trying to get my mother to either read The Crimson Petal and the White or watch the mini-series I just got on DVD (with Romola Garai as Sugar) - but your comments are making me hesitate a bit, especially since she once started it and commented on the sex as well. I found the book incredible, with the explicit sex only a matter of course considering it was about a prostitute, but I guess people more sensitive to that might see it differently... and the mini-series is faithful enough to the book that it's comparable there.

I'm very prudish. I knew it was about a prostitute, but I didn't expect Faber to be that bald about it. I should stop expecting authors to be the same in all books.

I really need to get around to Alice in Wonderland, besides a few other titles in your list that I'll bump up some on my mental list (The Dervish House, The Anubis Gate, Ragnarok, Barchester Towers). Shame that you didn't like Sons and Lovers so much, I loved that one as well. You probably shouldn't read The Rainbow, then, if you haven't yet. :P

Yeah, I think DH Lawrence and I are no longer friends. :P
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The 2011 RAFO Challenges: how did you get on? Rebekah - 01/01/2012 11:05:22 AM 957 Views
I achieved some and failed at others. Rebekah - 01/01/2012 11:32:00 AM 1022 Views
Some interesting things in your list... a few that I really need to read. Legolas - 01/01/2012 01:58:34 PM 696 Views
I really couldn't get into The Dervish House when i tried to read it. Stephen - 01/01/2012 02:06:31 PM 641 Views
Re: Some interesting things in your list... a few that I really need to read. Rebekah - 01/01/2012 04:02:41 PM 800 Views
Not quite there. Stephen - 01/01/2012 01:39:09 PM 910 Views
As the year progressed I didn't follow it as much, but I got most of them one way or another. Legolas - 01/01/2012 01:43:29 PM 843 Views
Well, as you're aware I came up with my own challenge. Tom - 01/01/2012 11:47:39 PM 879 Views
Let me see.... jh - 02/01/2012 05:53:15 PM 940 Views
I did most of them. ranagrande - 03/01/2012 02:42:27 AM 1187 Views
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