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Originally Posted by maddz
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I have read almost all of his books including
White Eagles over Serbia plus some of his non-fiction and poetry. My main objection to his writing is his preoccupation with erotic complications even when they have (IMHO) little to nothing to do with the story.
I did enjoy reading and comparing
Prospero's Cell to Gerald Durrell's
Corfu Trilogy (
My Family and Other Animals,
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives and
The Garden of the Gods). The way they both fictionalized their families experiences living in Corfu was like catching both ends of a game of telephone.
OTOH, the
Alexandria Quartet, the
Avignon Quintet and the
Revolt of Aphrodite duology were books that I read but have never found myself wanting to re-read.