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Originally Posted by issybird
I think Lawrence was overrated and I don't think he's aged well; I can't imagine slogging through that overwritten tripe again.
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I'll confess to attempting
The Alexandria Quartet on several occasions and bottling out. The only reason I try to read it is because my great aunt lived in Alexandria at the time the series is set and she was part of the literary set there. It does come across like Simon Raven who has also aged badly although I have a liking for
The Roses of Picardie and it's sequel,
September Castle. The 1950s louche settings are distinctly past their best-before date; I suspect we'll see the same with modern millenial fiction, especially metro-sexual rom-coms in the next decade or so.
Bitter Lemons is more reportage than fiction so, yes, somewhat dry.