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| 1. |  | Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Thirty) from Picador Customer Review:  Created from a jumble of non-narrative forms--from anecdote to glossary to literary criticism to timetable--Flaubert's Parrot is a showcase of postmodern fiction and its devices. What makes it so special and so rich is its central character, or rather the respect and sensitivity Julian Barnes brings... |
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| 2. | [no image] | A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters from Random House of Canada, Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada Customer Review:  Imagine how Noah would have felt if after spending years building his ark in anticipation of the great rain that was to come, but instead got only two hours of a good soaking. I imagine he had kind of a disappointed "meh" feeling. That's how I felt after reading Barnes' A History of the World in... |
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| 3. | [no image] | In The Land Of Pain from Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY Customer Review: It is very hard to review this book critically or give it a rating, because one can't judge it by the same criteria with which we usually evaluate books. It isn't a finished work, or even close. It's a collection of notes written for a planned book that never got beyond the note-taking stage due to... |
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| 4. | [no image] | Metroland from St Martins Pr Customer Review:  This was the first of Julian Barnes's novels, but I came to it after reading a selection of his later essays in 'Letters from London' and the 'Pedant in the Kitchen' as well as his intellectual postmodern history novel 'A History of the World in Ten Chapters'. The sharpness, wit and originality... |
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| 5. | [no image] | Talking It Over from Picador Customer Review: It is hard to get used to the conversational format of this book, particularly as one character "talks" much more than the others with allusions to all sorts of literary, historical, and theatrical subjects. It does draw you in after a while, and it is a satisfying read, with an ending which leaves... |
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| 6. |  | Love, etc. from Random House of Canada, Limited Customer Review: It's hard to imagine a more perfect marriage of form and content than Love, etc, in which Julian Barnes continues the story of characters that came to life in Talking It Over. If, however, this marriage is fine, then equally the marriage of Gillian and Oliver is not. And neither, for that matter,... |
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| 7. | [no image] | Before She Met Me from Pan Books Customer Review: A book with a great title and intriguing concept that does not live up to its promise. 'Before She Met Me' is fashioned around an interesting situation regarding the jealous obsessions that a certain type of man can fall into regarding his faithful partner's previous sexual relationships, real... |
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| 8. | [no image] | Cross Channel from Picador Customer Review: The Brits abroad often bring to mind images of endomorphic, bawling, sunburned men drunkenly marauding in the south of Spain, or perhaps at an England football away match. Not, of course, in the hands of Julian Barnes, who strictly demarcates his fiction between the crass and vulgar (his pulp... |
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| 9. | [no image] | Staring at the Sun from Knopf Customer Review: Whether it is actually possible for the pilot of a plane changing altitude rapidly during the dawn to see the sun rise twice I don't actually know, although it sounds very unlikely to me. However that is the theme with which this story starts and ends. The start and end are very neatly tied... |
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| 10. |  | ARTHUR AND GEORGE from VINTAGE Customer Review: Arthur and George is a fictional recreation of the great injustice done to George Edalji, a half-Indian solicitor who is accused of slaughtering farm animals. George is tried, convicted and sent to jail, where he spends three years engaged in menial activities and reading books. When he is released,... |
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