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... currently living on Mnt TBR that are ready for their turn include: Last Orders, the Confessions of Nat Turner and English Passengers .
I liked English Passengers quite well. I think Kneale did a very good job of capturing the 'voice' of each of the narrators - everyone from the preacher to the ship's captain. I hope you give it a try.
I don't remember either liking or not liking English Passengers .
Two other books, which I don't think have been mentioned, Norfolk's The Pope's Rhinocerous and Matthew Kneale's English Passengers .
Great review. I'm adding When We Were Romans to my list. I've read English Passengers too (and liked it)--this sounds very different.
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale?
#180: I agree with Cyrel about English Passengers . I quite enjoyed it. I actually discovered it by accident because my local library did not have When We Were Romans.
I have that book on my book pile- I have read English Passengers - it is quite good.
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Matthew Kneale won the Whitbread Prize with his book English Passengers , which I have not read. He is the son of Judith Kerr and Nigel Kneale, both well-known writers.
This book takes big chances with its ...
In posting a question about the 10-book Martin Beck police procedural+ series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö on a thread headed '.....non English-speaking countries.....' I intend no insult to the Swedish people. I am well aware that, some time after WWII, English the international ...
Defn. agree w/ Geneg. Orwell portrayed the sickness of anti-speak and its sequellae brilliantly. And i don't know how political language is manipulated outside the USA - but the republicans have been dizzyingly effective users of anti-thought and anti-speak.
Gene mentioned the "blue skies" ...
... canon, I appreciated the new perspective. The book had some interesting insights, and was a fun one to read.
Book 77 is English by Wang Gung, about a boy's relationship with his English teacher in a small town in Western China during the Cultural Revolution (I'm sorry, I can't seem to ...
Just found another, it's on my wishlist. Seems to have very good reviews. It's
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale.
I enjoyed Eucalyptus to, but I think of it more as a contemporary piece.
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Lord Peter- Dorothy L. Sayers
The Sound of Munich - Suzanne Nelson
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
Lord Jim- Joseph Conrad
Marie Antoinette- Antonia Fraser
Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs
The Private ...
... Dog by Patricia McConnell, 1001 Reasons to Love Dogs which has a bull terrier on the cover and various horse books. No English Passengers . I am another person who always looks at the books in other peoples photos.
Casper has not shown an interest in alcohol which is a blessing I am ...
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale is narrated by several people, including a smuggler and a reverend, on their way to Tasmania.
while i doubt it makes any difference to anyone..my facebook sig is:
"It English becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
George Orwell
with a link to the essay..Politics and the Engl ...
This week's reads:
375. English Passengers by Matthew Kneale - I really enjoyed this book and thought that Kneale did a great job in conveying the 'voice' of each of his characters
376. The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney - young adult
377. A Moveable Fe ...
... a last-year Harvard divinity student, and his brand of medical magical realism is showcased in these 9 dazzling stories.
English Passengers by Matthes Kneale - one of the most engaging historical novels I've ever read, as consistently hilarious as it was thrilling.
Indignation by < ...
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale is a terrific book involving ocean travel. People might look at The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston, although the ocean travel is Arctic and not as central to the core of the book.
... Faulks.
The Great Stink by Clare Clark.
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman.
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes.
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist.
Misfortune by Wesley Stace.
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem by Peter ...
... Bones were feeling lonely and needed company.
Star of the Sea by Joseph O’Connor . Because it reminded me of English Passengers only going in the opposite direction!
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood Because it’s on the 1001 Books list and only cost 10p (17c)!
A Creed ...
... epidemic in London, when the sewer system was finally built, and when I heard that Matthew Kneale (who wrote the great English Passengers ) had written a book about the same thing, I started searching for it, in the hopes that it would wash the bad taste of Clark's book out of my mouth. Well, ...
... have to admit that i also found the Stockwin books to be uninspiring. As for any recommendations of my own, I would suggest English Passengers - although not strictly about war in Napoleonic era it is definitely within the Age of sail and has characteristics that to me anyway made it one of the ...
... Who knew Jane Austen was SO hard to find!
Is anyone here wanting The Kite Runner, The Jane Austen Book Club or English Passengers before I put them up on Bookmooch? (They might be ex-lib books, but they have no stickers or pockets, Kite Runner's a little worn on the edges, but the ...
... unfinished, then returned a month or two, or years, later and ended up loving them. This happened with Matthew Kneale's English Passengers , John Crowley's Little, Big, and Andrea Barrett's The Voyage of the Narwhal."
I found her rule very comforting (also I got to ...
English Passengers
On the Road
Rolling Nowhere
Starting from San Francisco
Journey to the End of the Night
... made their way onto my 'favourites' list are:
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant - Set in Rennaissance Florence
and English Passengers by Matthew Kneale - Set in 19th Century England/Australia...maybe appeals to me because it talks about a part of Indigenous Australian history that is ...
... But it's well worth the effort if you're interested in the Kennedy assassination and/or all the conspiracy theories.
3. English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
4. The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
I picked this one up by chance from the New Release shelf at the library. What a ...
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. Also, still working on Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi.
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Woman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally
Cloudstreet; That Eye, The Sky; and Dirt Music by Tim Winton
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
*Some of these I haven't read, so I can't give you my own opinion on them... :) *
28. English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
29. A Good Man is Hard to Find and other stories - Flannery O'Connor.
... space. An absolutely stunning read, though.
The other titles -
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams ~ Wayne Johnston
English Passengers ~ Matthew Kneale
Grace Notes ~ Bernard MacLaverty
The Confessions of Max Tivoli ~ Andrew Sean Greer (A R'ville fave from a few years back. This ...
... into your LibraryThing catalog? You know, the one book that you absolutely had to have in your collection? For me, it was English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. I just love this book. It is my absolute favorite. I like it because it is hilarious without cracking any jokes, you know what I ...
... get into Moby Dick, perhaps because I got a hundred pages in and we were still on the dock.)
I would like to recommend English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. It's about . . . so many things, but major threads are a ship traveling to Tasmania in the 1850s, with its primary mission to ...
#3, I'm glad you're enjoying English Passengers - one of my recent favorites too!
Currently I'm reading The Portrait by Iain Pears (creepy, but quite fascinatingly written) and Islands by Dan Sleigh. And I'm about to start George Mason: Forgotten Founder by Jeff Broadwater
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Diamonds are Forever was a thoroughly enjoyable yarn, as is this week's read, English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I'm loving it so far - quite fast moving, very character driven, funny, thought-provoking: highly recommended!
Once I polish this off, I'll ...
Diamonds are Forever was a thoroughly enjoyable yarn, as is this week's read, English Passengers by Matthew Kneale. I'm only about 100 pages in, but I'm loving it so far - quite fast moving, very character driven, funny, thought-provoking: highly recommended!
Once I polish this off, I'll ...
... Heart of Darkness is the classic, but it is also addressed in books such as The Lord of the Flies and, more recently, English Passengers . D.H.Lawrence also wrote a lot about the internal conflict between 'civilised' behaviour and the strength of sensual desires. All of these address ...
Reading English Passengers by Matthew Kneale which I started last week and find enthralling. Also The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. As I'm currently very busy on an indexing project the Rome book is going very slowly. English Passengers is a 'bed' book so busy-ness doesn't ...
Aluvalibri, well done on your library sale finds! I loved both English Passengers and Birth of Venus. I haven't read the John Berendt, but loved Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
I was almost good this weekend. I went to my favourite bookshop Daunt's to buy my mother a copy of Jan ...
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City of darkness, city of light by Marge Piercy
The book thief by Markus Zusak
Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
English passengers by Matthew Kneale
The birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Now I am going to add them to my catalogue....
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... was a fun read and certainly helped to bring that era of London alive. If you did like it, I would also highly recommend English Passengers also by Matthew Kneale. I think it's a much stronger book as far as writing / plot go. It doesn't fit this London theme (since it's about leaving ...
... year than of the Booker - do you think that reflects anything specific in the process of shortlisting? Or is it just me?
English Passengers , The Child In Time, The Curious Incident..., and Seamus Heaney's Beowulf are some of my favourite winners of any prize list.
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