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The Little Stranger
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sigh. i tried to read this slowly and still finished it in two days. i suck. but i can't help it - she writes so well, and her stories are so damn compelling; the pages virtually turn themselves. but sorry, ladies, no lesbians this time. i never thought i would see the day. what else is sarah waters for, if not lesbian love?? evidently, dickensian ghost stories in postwar settings... ooooorrrr iiiiisss iiiitttt?
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Apr 29, 2009 02:48AM
you got me tempted to read her. I want to buy fingersmith today. haha.
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yeah do it, and then there is one less book for rgis to count!!
I bought Architecture of the arkansas ozarks instead of fingersmith as I am borrowing fingersmith/the little stranger on friday. :P I got a lot of reading to do.
yeah, definitely. she is very good at creating a mood and making historical settings come to life; world war II, victorian, it doesn't matter - she can probably do anything. if she wrote a futuristic space opera, i would probably read that, too.
oh, man - you are in for a treat!!if i may
fingersmith is my all-time favorite of hers. just a really playful narrative that is totally engrossing and twisty with fantastic characters - it does not feel as long as it is, but i wanted it to keep going forever.
i wanted to suggest fingersmith for the RBRS. maybe it is too long though.
RBRS?I'm reading Fingersmith now. So far it owns pretty hard.
the random bodice ripper society. it is the goodreads book club of people willing to read crappy romance novels. except since i joined it appears everyone is sick of bad books so we get to read sci-fi!
Calm down those sci-fi dreams, Joel, we're returning to the traumatizing stuff as soon as we recover from the last one.
well it wouldn't be very fun if we only read thing i might read anyway. i mean, not that i would have actually read the iron duke, but it was in my wheelhouse.
i know i have only been a member (heh) for a couple of months, but the books have been vastly different every time. i was not there for the golden age.
oh, i have no recommendations! i enjoy going with the tide of this group...
and i for one am glad to have read that book.
I think it's about time we land upon another trauma book. We swung away pretty far with the recent ones so I'm thinking we'll swing hard back the other way. Torn is probably just the tip. Heh.
what is more taboo than twincest?
Twin donkeys? I'm confident Caris will find it.
Remember what happened the last time I gunned for a selection? Boringest Fulkin' book ever!
we could read a cozy mystery.
One of my theories as I read was that Caroline was a lesbian. Maybe having an affair with Betty & having her fake all the poltergeist stuff so they could drive her brother and mother man and then they'd live there forever. I had a lot of theories and none of them turned out to be true, which is kind of cool. You know, you're thinking "Oh I see where this is going" but you actually don't.
caroline was most certainly a les in my gay opinion
I really liked Fingersmith, but thought The Little Stranger was about 300 pages too long and sort of boring with nothing resolved. Also didn’t find it scary at all.
i still want to see the movie of this - i read it so long ago it's very fuzzy in my mind...
Thanks for your review of this book Karen. I certainly enjoyed it also.
Well...get ready Karen...the movie will be just a fuzzy as the book...lol.
which of her novels do NOT contain lesbians?
besides this one? zero, i believe.
I seriously thought caroline was.... I even felt like it was heavily alluded to and inferred.....
