“Not my cuppa char really. I found it very hard to connect with the characters and the story, which is told in two parts and felt disjointed.
When I met the author she explained that it had intended to be a novella, when she read it back it lacked something, so she wrote a second part and tried to combine them.
Not for me but what do others think who may well appreciate the story line?
Score 4.5/10
Date read June 2011
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“When an English lawyer helps a beautiful Russian girl on a train station, he embarks on a relationship which becomes more than he bargained for.
This is a gentle literary thriller, more a tale of morality than blood and guts, although Snowdrops is a nickname for dead bodies which appear from the melting snow in the spring.
This was a good read, I also had the pleasure of interviewing Andy. He sent me a copy of his first book, a non fiction account of rags to riches in Jewish London.
Score 7/10
Date read May 2011
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“A riveting expose which presents the gut-wrenching truth about the price paid by the environment and animals themselves to put meat onto our tables…
Or another book banging on about animal cruelty?
Being a reformed veggie I know most of the details he is reporting so perhaps this is for those who mindlessly eat animals without understanding what/how it appears on our dinner tables.
Good author but I’d read his fiction rather than this.
Score 4/10
Date read 40603
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“Wow what a book. Best so far this year.
Before I began reading I’d been thinking of writing a novella, but DBC spoils that notion by making me realise what intelligent and great writing is, which in a million years I couldn’t manage.
I’m not going to say much about the book, a guy decides to end it all so travels for one last bender with his mate Smuts. Things spiral around and whatever you decide to read into the meaning of the book, it is a terrific novel.
Score 8.5/10
Date read February 2011
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