You read all three of them? I could only manage to get through An Assembly Such As This. It's funny-- people often complain about how they find Austen's prose tedious (I rather like her style) and here we have a modern author whose prose is just godawful...
The Shakespeare-quoting valet.
The idea always makes me think of Henry Straker in Man and Superman correcting Tanner: "It wasn't Voltaire, it was Bow-mar-shay!"
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Date: 2008-07-08 03:13 pm (UTC)The Shakespeare-quoting valet.
The idea always makes me think of Henry Straker in Man and Superman correcting Tanner: "It wasn't Voltaire, it was Bow-mar-shay!"