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Anyone else enjoy The Tenderness of Wolves?

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I finished it because I had paid for it - but thought it was very, very silly.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sun 21-Jun-09 22:31:46
Loved it at first...ticked along great and then had a disappointing ending i thought.
Had this a lot lately actually.
Aha! I see, was it that bad for you.

Any thoughts on the bone tablet, duchesse?
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 20-Jun-09 22:23:32
<British Heart Foundation'd>

Lobbed to nearest charity shop, toot-sweet.
Yes, really liked it.
?BHF'd??
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Sat 20-Jun-09 22:11:05
Went from love to hate in under eighty pages, I'm sad to admit.

Tried, failed, BHF'd.
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Add message | Report | Contact poster By Fri 19-Jun-09 17:17:11
Hi there, I read this ages ago and recall having a few foibles about the people trooping issue too. However I did enjoy it overall and it was recommended to me by my father which is a first
Finished this recently and I really enjoyed it but at one point I did think "Just how many more people are going to troop out into the wilderness in search of the people who trooped out before etc etc."

I'm also not sure what the bone tablet sub-plot was all about? What was it meant to symbolise?
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