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I know I am way out of date here but MIL lent me White Teeth and...

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Ready · 22/03/2007 19:22

I'm about 3/4 of the way through and finding it really hard going. For the first time in my entire life I am contemplating not finishing a book - Someone tell me why I should perservere? What am I missing??

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SenoraPostrophe · 23/03/2007 18:02

anachronisms. doh. still have baby brain obviously.

To be fair to Zadie, I loved the bit about the black women in the hairdressers. and some other bits.

RoxyNotFoxy · 24/03/2007 13:43

Anachronisms - don't you wear those on the end of a chain in your waistcoat pocket? Or am I thinking of a chronicle? Or a monocle? Or a manacle?...

MrsSpoon · 25/03/2007 22:13

I loved White Teeth until the last 100 pages or so when it went off the boil completely. I also agree about bad research, her info about Jehovah's Witnesses was skewed to say the least.

MrsSpoon · 25/03/2007 22:14

Oh and I thought On Beauty was pants, not in the same league as White Teeth at all.

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Ready · 26/03/2007 10:59

I'm ploughing on, because I just can't seem to stop reading a book, I've invested lots of time in it already - I should see it through. But, I am now happy that I am not the only person that is baffled by the acclaim this book received! Thanks everyone.

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