tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post114364006540742219..comments2024-03-27T07:25:07.401+00:00Comments on Grumpy Old Bookman: Another review for Sam BourneMichael Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11338398159818400930noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-66157146299112724952010-06-10T07:43:16.007+01:002010-06-10T07:43:16.007+01:00I wish I could get over being raised during the po...I wish I could get over being raised during the post-war austerity period - it means that having bought a book, I usually struggle on to the end, no matter how turgid. I chanced upon The Chosen One - and this book is truly awful. Outrageously silly plot lines, feeble structure and dire characterisation - but this gets so bad that I suspect even Richard & Judy will not reach the end....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-24851336877066698262007-08-05T00:44:00.000+01:002007-08-05T00:44:00.000+01:00I found this book in the 'discards' bin thinking t...I found this book in the 'discards' bin thinking there might be something good here.<BR/><BR/>NOT!<BR/><BR/>After the FIRST chapter I could NOT believe how infantile the writing was! I got through the second chapter just to give it a further chance; it was however, as breathtakingly bad. <BR/><BR/>I have never gone to the net to find out about an author at this point, but the flagrant ineptness of the wrting behooved me to do so.<BR/><BR/>If you want to know how bad BAD writing can be, then buy this book (but only from a discard bin).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6656468.post-1149608628145858942006-06-06T16:43:00.000+01:002006-06-06T16:43:00.000+01:00You neglect to mention that Freedland also got a c...You neglect to mention that Freedland also got a cover story and serialisation in the Guardian magazine for his previous book, Jacob's Gift. The work is one of, no doubt, universal relevance about growing up in a bourgeois North London Jewish household, occasioned by the birth of the author's son (who will presumably get his own job on the Guardian when he comes of age). <BR/><BR/>For another instance of the Guardian keeping it in the family: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alexia_skinitis/2006/04/post_31.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com