What Bad Book are You?

[Bekah]

>>
>>Hey literary folk--new topic:  I've just discovered Alan 
>>Hollinghurst... can anyone weigh in about his work?  Just finished 
>>The Line of Beauty, and I must say "OGEE!"
>>
>
>Loved the book. It's stuck with me better than most novels I've read 
>in recent years. The protagonist seemed to have quite a fascination 
>with Margaret Thatcher. They have a dance together at a big 
>political get together in the rich home where the poor hero is 
>living. Thatcher comes off fairly sympathetically,  considering.  Is 
>THAT by any chance a  gay thing? Like Judy Garland? But, seriously, 
>the  book is first rate. As expected there's a very lot of the 
>homoerotic, but the majority of the characters are straight. The 
>people SURROUNDING  Thatcher don't come off at all well. _Line of 
>Beauty_ was my first Hollinghurst since _Swimming Pool Library_. 
>Hollinghurst has turned into a  superb novelist IMHO.

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I too enjoyed the book.  The Thatcher episode seemed like a moment of 
humanness in the middle of the sex, drugs and money type politics 
during the British 80s.    Did you get the whole "Alice in Wonderland 
/ Looking Glass" allusion?  It  really extends through the entire 
book from the epigraph to many of the characters and the scenarios as 
well because one pill makes you bigger...

Bekah
Also newish and very recommendable is The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
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