A list of books I've read recently with some occasional gibberish thrown in.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
RITES OF PASSAGE - William Golding
A story of an ancient ship taking passengers and cargo to Australia at the end of the Napoleonic era.
It starts out very funny, almost Waugh like, but has a tragic ending. Humans are not very nice creatures a lot of the time .
This won the Booker in 1980 beating out Anthony Burgess's " Earthly Powers" which puts it on the back foot for me anyway as "Powers" is a favourite.
Its not a fun read after the first 50 pages.
ROB ROY - Walter Scott
Made into numerous films and TV series but this is a hard read, mostly because a big portion of it is written in Scotts vernacular which I found very hard to understand.
Like Ivanhoe, Rob Roy doesn't make much of an appearance until the second half of the novel.
Its a book I've now read but won't be revisiting.
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