Comments on: HHhH, Laurent Binet

By: Review: I’ll Be Seeing You, Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan | Reading the End

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 09:00:42 +0000

[…] Less successful was the authors’ depiction of the American home front. I don’t mean that I spotted any historical lapses, but the setting felt unfinished. When the authors dropped in small details about American life in the 1940s, it felt elbow-nudgey — like, hey hey, guess what, they didn’t use to have penicillin in those days! it had only just been invented! This is the second time in the past month that it has been brought to my attention that penicillin was beginning to be used during the Second World War, and I liked it better coming from Laurent Binet. […]

By: vicki (skiourophile / bibliolathas)

vicki (skiourophile / bibliolathas) — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 01:58:27 +0000

I’m looking forward to reading this although I think I will need to be in exactly the right frame of mind for that sort of double narration.

By: NWK (@MumsyNancy)

NWK (@MumsyNancy) — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:35:44 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. Want to read it when you come home for Mom's birthday? :P

By: NWK (@MumsyNancy)

NWK (@MumsyNancy) — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:34:19 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. YES.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:43:47 +0000

In reply to Alice. Yes, do! It's really really good, you won't regret reading it.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:43:31 +0000

In reply to aartichapati. I haven't but I very much want to! My mother has read it and I believe liked it quite a bit.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:42:30 +0000

In reply to farmlanebooks. Oh no! Really? THIS IS WHY I DO NOT LIKE READING TRANSLATIONS. Dammit. Offensive how? Like, he was really really insulting to the author of The Kindly Ones?

By: Alice

Alice — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:08:21 +0000

I’ve had this on my shelf for a while now, after a friend read and recommend it, time to add it to the to-read list me thinks.

By: Nish

Nish — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:44:18 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. @Jenny: That's true unfortunately. Usually, I google thoroughly to find the best translation and read only that. It works for me most times.

By: aartichapati

aartichapati — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:40:20 +0000

Have you read City of Thieves by David Benioff? This review makes me think of that book, and I think it, too, is quite dear, considering it takes place during the siege of Leningrad. I think you would enjoy it.