Books by Alan Bennett
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review 1: This is a collection of articles and stories about libraries. Sadly, I suspect that it only reached those who already are passionate supporters of both libraries and reading generally - not the people making the decisions to close libraries or those unaware of or indifferent to ...
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review 1: This book is enjoyable and good fun. The book contains two separate stories linked by a sexual ‘smutiness’ that is written to take the reader by surprise. Essentially both stories suggest that a sexual awakening is a possibility in all of us if you meet the right person, in the...
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review 1: Honest account of his closest relatives and of his relationship and judgements about them. At times it made me laugh out loud. I liked the way that Bennett reflected on what he was writing. Just when you think something like has he never heard of R D Laing, or was he not aware of...
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review 1: I fell in love with Bennett's 'The History Boys' after the 50 Years of the National Theatre on the BBC showed about 5 minutes of it. After that I was hooked.Unseemly: not proper or appropriate.'Smut' contains two short stories about, unsurprisingly, sex. From the title you can id...
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review 1: Alan Bennett is a playwright first and foremost. The tart, intellectual style of his writing in Smut lent a distance that makes this book more comical than smutty. It's funny, and clever, and not the least bit erotic (or at least not in my books). Smut is two stories, both told p...
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review 1: I find it incredibly hard to articulate what it is about this particular story that appeals to me. Apart from Bennett's ease with words and his finely observed portraits of his parents, there is the appeal of a family which, on the face of it, might simply be described as ordinar...