Books by A.S. Byatt
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review 1: The Norse tales have always seemed to me the most powerful of the old mythologies that have come down to us in anything approaching a coherent body of work. Unlike the Graeco-Roman corpus, we have not been overexposed to them through Hollywood and cliche (with the exception of Th...
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review 1: This novel is both intriguing and frustrating. There are a beautiful set of stories hidden within that are unfortunately too often masked by extraneous detail and pedantic list-making. You can tell that the research was amazingly thorough and complete however it too often spills ...
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review 1: I am aware that over the years I have become more and more of an intellectual lightweight. I read Moby Dick when I was ten, and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and The Grapes of Wrath and the like when I was in my teens, so I started off well, but maybe now I just don't have...
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review 1: Portrait of a number of interconnected families mostly involved in the arts from roughly 1900 through the end of the First World War. The focus is on the artistic mentality compared to others that are more practical, with the practical minded "winning out" by the end of the story...