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LOVING Fingersmith by Sarah Waters - anyone else read it?

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TuttiFrutti · 20/04/2007 13:30

I'm halfway through this book, and am absolutely gripped. Has anyone else read it? What did you think?

Don't tell me the ending though!!!

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brimfull · 20/04/2007 13:32

fab book,she's a great storyteller.
In th end they.......

just kidding

god I am sooo funny

mumblechum · 20/04/2007 13:42

Yes, read it earlier this year. Is excellent. Lots of good twists.

funnypeculiar · 20/04/2007 13:44

Yes, my favourite of all of hers. Others are good, but a bit same-y...

suedonim · 20/04/2007 13:54

I read it last year and enjoyed it. It's not my usual sort of book but I found it intriguing.

kslatts · 20/04/2007 14:02

I'm currently reading The Night Watch by her, borrowed it from someone and work and I'm really enjoying it.

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TuttiFrutti · 21/04/2007 20:02

The Night Watch is fantastic isn't it? That's what got me hooked on Sarah Waters.

I just can't put Fingersmith down atm. Am 300 pages in and I should think I'll finish it tomorrow!

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LittleSarah · 21/04/2007 20:04

Yeah I loved it, I picked it up on holiday and was, as you say, gripped!

I have Tipping the Velvet but haven't read it yet.

Idreamofdaleks · 21/04/2007 20:06

I really loved it!

edam · 21/04/2007 20:12

Just finished it - couldn't stop reading last night, stayed up to 1.30. Such powerful writing, I just HAD to know what happened.

nickytwotimes · 21/04/2007 20:18

i fancied reading it, but the title sounds a bit rude?!
or am i just weird?

no answer required. however, i shall be reading it now after this thread...

flipflopper · 21/04/2007 21:08

I read fingersmith ages ago and loved it, really good story, lots of twists and turns.
Have recently read the night watch and really enjoyed that too , but found there was a lot more lesbian talk which I wasnt too keen on, bit cringey

flipflopper · 21/04/2007 21:10

UGH, I didn't think of the word fingersmith as being rude, tthought it was another word for pickpocket.
Even though i read it ages ago, the leather dildo is still etched on my brain eww....!

quadrophenia · 21/04/2007 21:11

ireally loved this book too, wasn';t it adapted for tv recently?

tribpot · 21/04/2007 21:13

Loved it - haven't read Night Watch but the one I was less keen on was Affinity. I have a copy if any MNer would like it!

DimpledThighs · 21/04/2007 21:42

really really good - full of loads of OMG moments - it is fab!

Am jealous of you reading it for the first time!

Didn't like her others so much but have not read nighwatch yet.

spykid · 23/04/2007 18:25

Loved it

Just finished Nightwatch too.

Different era for a change but just as good IMO

October · 23/04/2007 18:28

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multitasker · 23/04/2007 19:02

Loved Fingersmith, less impressed with Tipping the Velvet. Liked Night Watch. I have Affinity but will not be rushing to read it - theres only so much lesbian fiction I can take in a year...

motherinferior · 23/04/2007 19:05

I love her. Love her love her love her. I would like to be her stalker. NW even more fab than the others. Did I mention I adore her?

multitasker · 23/04/2007 19:12

Is she working on anything now I wonder??

charliegal · 23/04/2007 19:18

reading Sarah Waters if you're not keen on 'lesbian talk'

LittleSarah · 23/04/2007 19:19

I saw her at the book festival.

charliegal · 23/04/2007 19:20

Me too. She's fab.

foxinsocks · 23/04/2007 19:23

I liked Nightwatch the least but still liked them all (iyswim). Probably because I ended up reading it over an extended time period so had to keep going back and reminding myself where I was in it. I LOVE all the old London references.

motherinferior · 23/04/2007 19:28

I heard her read from NW last year. I tried to ask a really incisive intelligent question so that she'd decide we needed to become best mates and hang out together making intellectual conversation...and then I botched it