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TillyBookClub · 30/09/2008 19:57
We'll be chatting about our Book of the Month, Pat Barker's Booker Prize winner THE GHOST ROAD, on Tues 28 October from 8-10pm.
Will keep you posted here about author chat - and don't forget you can order your copy here.
HelenMumsnet · 01/10/2008 14:00
Just in case you wondered how the voting went, you can have a snoop at the results here
And, for anyone who was asleep at the back, here were the book choices
carriemumsnet · 28/10/2008 19:12
Have read this in preparation for tonight but now can't make it, due to dh booking tickets for a football match . Anyway will be really interested to hear what others think. I really enjoyed it, although find the end almost unbearably sad. Kept thinking there must be so many clever connections between the Rivers story in the jungle and the war story/ Craiglockhart and links I'm supposed to be making, but as I only ever read last thing at night when my brain is fried I don't think I really made those connections - so be interested to see if you all did. Also interesting as the Rivers/Jungle stuff was, I mostly couldn't wait to get back to the WW1 stuff. I so wanted a different ending, but guess that's what made it so moving/realistic...
Anyway looking forward to coming back to everyone's pearls of wisdom... One question for those who've read all three - is it worth me reading the previous two in the trilogy now, or will having read this spoil them?
GeraldineMumsnet · 28/10/2008 20:49
Think all the comparisons of taboos between the societies are fascinating. And Prior's like a one-man taboo challenger. He reminds me of another book, called Her Privates We, that was banned for ages because it was too honest about the war - ie told from perspective of non-officers, lots of swearing and suppressed detail about boring, tedious, non-heroic side of war. The whole trilogy together gets my vote over Birdsong.
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