09-28-2017, 06:52 PM | #31 |
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09-28-2017, 07:15 PM | #32 |
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Oh, I loved it. I'm a huge David Lodge fan; I've read almost everything he's written. As a fan of Small World, you should read the first of his campus trilogy, Changing Places, which also is hilarious; the third book isn't quite up to the first two, IMO. It's not as flat-out funny, but then it's probably more realistic.
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Unfortunately, that's the only one by him that I've read, which actually strikes me as strange considering how much I, too, loved it. --- I'll certainly check out 'Changing Places.' Have you read that Joyce Carol Oates novel I mentioned? Wonderful fun. I love her work and was hoping she would win the Nobel Prize soon, but it's probably not likely |
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I have tremendous respect for authors like that, in the abstract. Though I wonder if they have ever heard of, or considered, taking some time off. and I wonder what that is doing to their physical and long term mental health.
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I've started A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik. First book in a new trilogy. It is currently set in a magical school.
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I’ll offer up J.I.M. Stewart’s Oxford quintet, A Staircase in Surrey and Edmund Crispin’s Gervase Fen mystery series, also set at Oxford, and look forward to seeing what others can add. |
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It's a stretch and then a reach but Danny Dunn and The Homework Machine was a favorite during school days if you want light entertaining.
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10-17-2020, 05:46 PM | #39 |
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Frederic Raphael’ The Glittering Prizes starts out in Cambridge (plus there’s a vintage BBC series with a young Tom Conti)
A few of CP Snow’s Strangers and Brothers series are in Cambridge (The Masters being most well known I think) Death in the Quadrangle by Eilis Dillon, Dublin |
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I thought of The Masters, a wonderful book, and it absolutely stands alone. No need to have read the earlier books. O/T: a personal connection with The Strangers and Brothers series is that I might not have realized what was happening when I suffered my first retinal detachment had I not read about it in S&B. |
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Not sure why you would think it's a stretch - the school figures very prominently in several parts of the series. I really enjoyed these books - well written, great characters, and lots of commentary on the genre while still telling a proper story.
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Thinking back, I'm not sure either.
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