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[proteinscollide]

Dear people, help me?

a. I'm quite sure a while back someone on my flist posted on Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty. I hadn't gotten around to reading the book at that point, so I tucked the thought away and thought to go back. For some reason I had either dahlia_777 or kay_taylor as the poster, but I can't seem to find the entry now that I've just finished

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[lasultrix]

Might've been one of the Die Hard films for b.

Line of Beauty... pfft. Gigantic gaps between sections, a copout on showing how the character and his situations actually developed. in medias resopenings three times in one book, with no backstory at all, is a bit much.

Don't know who posted, I'm afraid.

(And I miss fandom too. I have no time, and so many old stories are gone. You would have liked the NSync contingent at connotations.)

[proteinscollide]

Nah, I've never seen any of the Die Hard films.

Hm. I can see the gaps but I quite liked the book overall. It's certainly more coherent as a story compared to some of his other books. But I'm still thinking my way through it all.

I haven't the time either for fandom, though I still read the occasional story that I really like, but I haven't had time to sit down and make decent recs! And unfortunately, I've fallen right out of pop fandom, which is a bit sad for me, and I've just been roaming all sorts of fandoms aimlessly without any real connection to any of them. *sigh*

[proteinscollide]

Thanks!

Heh. Well, I quite liked it, but I had a chat to one of my less-than-impressed friends today, and she said that with a few months' distance I may not enjoy it as much. I'm still processing, really.

[proteinscollide]

Aaaah. I think in my mind I extended that thread by a good lot more discussion, for some reason. But it was still interesting to read it (and I knew it was you! British politics and fiction; who else on my flist is as articulate on these things?) I agree with you in that I think it's got a great wide scope of issues, and it's so clever at times and it actually says something about the time and the people in that time.