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Freedom
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bookshelves: published-2010, books-with-a-passport, paper-read, bedside, autumn-2011, abandoned
Nov 01, 2010
bookshelves: published-2010, books-with-a-passport, paper-read, bedside, autumn-2011, abandoned
** spoiler alert **
Looks about and sighs in relief. At last the hype swarm has moved on to fresher pickings and I can now read this without pressure.
First line - The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally - he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now - but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times.
Three times I have resolved to get in and keep reading no matter what. No! I'm not the target audience by either lifestyle or reading habits. If this is modern living it can go on without me.
Looks about and sighs in relief. At last the hype swarm has moved on to fresher pickings and I can now read this without pressure.
First line - The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally - he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now - but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times.
Three times I have resolved to get in and keep reading no matter what. No! I'm not the target audience by either lifestyle or reading habits. If this is modern living it can go on without me.
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Nov 03, 2010 02:40PM
I really liked Freedom. (I didn't know that Franzen is Swedish--but then my "Forsman" doesn't strike me as particularly Svenska.
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M says Forsman means river/rapid man - usually connected to those who took logs down river.
Interestingly enough, Franzen was the surname of the engineer who brought up the from the depths in the 1950s. Gustavus Adolphus (Christina's dad) was told of the dread doubts about the ship's stability but he deemed himself infallible.
Hello! I am more interested in that sailing vessel - it looks spectacular. Thanks ever so much for the link.
That quote that goes something like the main thing that history teaches us is that nobody ever learns from history springs to mind here.Old arrogant Gustavus Adolphus surely knew of the fate of the Mary Rose and the fallibility of Henry VIII.
The bit about the Mary Rose was one of the things I most liked in latest C J Sansom
I thought history should have indicated that it was a plot spoiler!
Although, I sometimes love reading a book about something I know - hideous, toe-curling anticipation - if, of course, it has been written well!
