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Thanks for sharing your 10 best. Interestingly, Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies, is in their 81 to 100 group. Maybe your choice of Wolf Hall will be further down it.
Kathleen wrote: "Thanks for sharing your 10 best. Interestingly, Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies, is in their 81 to 100 group. Maybe your choice of Wolf Hall will be further down it."
I don't understand the choice of Bringing up the Bodies over Wolf Hall at all! The glorious voice of Cromwell, the complete reimagining of a character that was the bad guy in "A Man for All Seasons," was such genius, and the story is so much more complicated in the first book. What a masterpiece.
I want to read this one again! I agree with you that’s it’s so amazing.
What amazed me, what I can’t remember ever happening in any other book I’ve read, is the way some image or phrase would captivate me so much that I would want to preserve it, and quote it…but it was impossible because the magnifence of one image would cascade into the next one on the page over and over so basically you I’d need to quote the whole book by the end. There was no letting up of magnificence. I feel weird writing that when so many people I know found it to be a bore but, oh well, it fit my brain perfectly.
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Thanks for sharing your 10 best. Interestingly, Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies, is in their 81 to 100 group. Maybe your choice of Wolf Hall will be further down it.
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Kathleen wrote: "Thanks for sharing your 10 best. Interestingly, Mantel’s Bringing Up the Bodies, is in their 81 to 100 group. Maybe your choice of Wolf Hall will be further down it."I don't understand the choice of Bringing up the Bodies over Wolf Hall at all! The glorious voice of Cromwell, the complete reimagining of a character that was the bad guy in "A Man for All Seasons," was such genius, and the story is so much more complicated in the first book. What a masterpiece.
I want to read this one again! I agree with you that’s it’s so amazing.
What amazed me, what I can’t remember ever happening in any other book I’ve read, is the way some image or phrase would captivate me so much that I would want to preserve it, and quote it…but it was impossible because the magnifence of one image would cascade into the next one on the page over and over so basically you I’d need to quote the whole book by the end. There was no letting up of magnificence. I feel weird writing that when so many people I know found it to be a bore but, oh well, it fit my brain perfectly.
