Books by David Lodge
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review 1: De Britse auteur H.G. Wells was bij mij alleen bekend als de schrijver van ‘War of the Worlds’, dat ik alleen kende als een radiospel met een grote impact. De biofictieve roman ‘A man of parts’ van David Lodge geeft een smeuige omvangrijke beschrijving van Wells’ leven. Lodge con...
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review 1: I really liked some aspects of this book. The narrator's mishaps in dealing with hearing loss and retirement from academia and his relationship with his family (cantankerous dad, wife who is more sociable and conventional than he is, adult children). However, I was turned off b...
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review 1: A novel about H. G. Wells' sex life. He sometimes claims his ideal is uncomplicated pleasure, but what gets most page space are attempts at a sort of polyamory, sentimental enough to be plenty complicated, but the complications are entirely self-generated and generally don't thre...
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review 1: I chose this book because I really wanted to switch off with a bit of intelligent comedy. And this book has that in abundance. Written in diary form, its basic premise is that of Desmond Bates, a retired university professor who is profoundly deaf, and how he faces up to the dail...
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review 1: endearing, funny, intelligent, droll... sad.David Lodge is one of those writers whose prose can carry me on even if i’m finding the plot and/or content a bit dull. which i am not with regards to this book. but i think i would read his words even if i did.i do think that Mr. Lodge...