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Lark & Termite

Jayne Anne Phillips

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Jul 20, 2011 Kathy rated it really liked it

Reminiscent of, but more accessible than, "The Sound and the Fury." Four narrators, all convincing, fully thought out, and eloquent in different ways. I loved each of them and even though I read the last third of the book in a rush (the story takes an unexpected turn as a thriller as it ends) I didn't want the story to end. I would love a sequel, but it's a perfect story as it is. ...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine rated it really liked it

Compared to William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison, Jayne Anne Phillips has produced an eloquent, heartrending, and surprisingly suspenseful novel in Lark and Termite, her first in nine years. Critics paid tribute to her poetic, evocative prose

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May 18, 2009 Ashley Hart rated it did not like it

Shelves: audiobook, 2010

I listened to the audio version of this book and my first impressions were that it was boring and melodramatically written. Still, it had so many good reviews I felt that it must improve. It didn't. I finally gave up half way through. I really wanted to get into it and enjoy, but I just couldn't. Maybe my taste in books is just too plebeian, but I just do not get the hype of this book. I suppose I could see how somebody could find the writing beautiful, but to me it just seems overwritten. Oh we ...more

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