David Whitehouse possesses a wonderful gift of language. Unfortunately, in BED, his gift serves little purpose other than to garner praise for his syntax. You find yourself focusing with admiration on his descriptions. Even that becomes a chore as you struggle to the end because the story, what l...
Malcolm Ede weighs 100 stone. He hasn't left his bed for 20 years. In Bed, his younger brother tries to tell us why.Mal has always been a bit different, his adoring younger brother describes him as extraordinary. He spends his childhood and adolescence standing apart from society. Mal felt constr...
Enthusiastic quotations from the reviews published in well-known newspapers about this book encouraged me to pick it up from shelf. As it turned out, unnecessarily. For me, these reviews were much too over-praised. I had massive impression that whole story can be hardly related to 'real' life occ...
Bobby read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazed that a man whose name he couldn’t pronounce might write a story that seemed like it was written just for him. Like the young prince, he too found the adult world strange. He too saw very few certainties in it. Afterward, Val shaved ...