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Persepolis 1 and 2 - Marjane Satrapi
By Stephanie · 8 posts · 38 views
By Stephanie · 8 posts · 38 views
last updated Feb 11, 2010 08:29PM
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A group of women and one man meet to discuss each of the Jane Austen books. Fowler attempts to draw parallels between the group members and the plots of the Austen books. I listened to this book. I think I should have read it and intend to in the future.
This book is definitely for people who have read Austen as there are many assumptions made about knowledge of plot. The author tries to do too much and character development is lost in the shuffle. Good idea, fair execution.
The plot goes absolutely nowhere. A beter novel about a book club is
Dinner with Anna Karenina
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Although I liked the premise of this book, which was the author tying in Austen's novels into the lives of book club members, the result left me a the reader pretty flat.
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