Clunky in construction and frequently awkward in its prose. I think the weaknesses of this book could have been addressed by a good editor, who would have tightened it up and cut things that cluttered the structure without really adding to what the book is doing (like the out-of-the blue mentally...
This was my first book by Spencer, who is a known literary writer and I am interested in reading his others. The book is not a straightforward mystery, but rather a story about a man's inner life and what life means. Paul is a carpenter, a somewhat mysterious man who comes upon a man beating a do...
A story about idealism and loss, as shown in a relationship between Sarah and Fielding, a couple whose relationship was bound to end in tragedy from the start. See the movie first and if you like it, read the book. The movie is my favorite of all time. I watch it again and again and cry every ...
Ship Made of Paper.....what paper? First of all let me say, I have no idea why this book is titled as such. I assume it was just a name the author liked because nothing about this book what so ever has to do with paper, ships or ships made of paper. This.. is a serious character study involving o...
If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared - the dream of never dying or of travelling through time, and if anything set me apart it was not my impulses but my stubbornness, my willingness to take the dream past what had been agreed upon as the reasonable limits, to declare th...