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Much decent and intelligible narrative fails to be good writing. The prose for a gifted writer such as atkinson lacks grace. The guy reading is impossible to listen to.
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Quality
They are absolutely great you fall in love with the hero and many of the other folk are interesting andor fun to know
I have just discovered kate atkinson and i am delighted
I love jackson brodie but cant figure out how he manages to keep getting involved with the most unpleasant selfish women that ... Read More
He can lose a fight with the bad guys but but he solves the cases
Packaging/appearance
I will continue to read atkinsons bookswhile hoping for some gender balance in the goodevil departmentbecause the authors prose... Read More
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- This product had a total of 6,329 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 30 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you have been reading kate atkinsons books over the years you will recognize that they are unabashedly feminist in tone
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But when the author produced 34case histories34 and launched the jason brodie series she set up an admirable male protagonist who despite his many virtues and attainments is never allowed the usual rewards of a true winner
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As a reader of the old school i find brodies continuing physical punishments and humiliations at the hands of one villain or another difficult to take at books conclusion
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The author doesnt care about plausibility and that yields delightful results
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If she says it happened it happened and youll enjoy the telling of it the more convoluted and seemingly disjointed the better
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Words everything was made out of words once you lost the words you lost the world
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I read this not knowing it was part of a series and those familiar with the characters from other writings of kate atkinson are likely to end with a different impression than i got
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