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If anyone wants to keep on with this, I am also willing and promise to post more. I put the book aside a few weeks ago and didn't get back to it even though I was really enjoying it.

Tracey wrote: "Sounds like a plan! Book 2 to be read by end of September and book 3 for October."

Perfect! I meant to start book 2 over the weekend but there wasn't much reading time. Next weekend, though, I will be taking a trip that involves air travel so should be able to read the entire book.

I got sidetracked but I'll take it up again this weekend.

I'm still reading and loving it's!

I am ver late to the party but I do want to say that based on my memories of this trilogy, Kristin evolves throughout her life and does become someone admirable. She could easily have become bitter after the difficulties she experiences but she soldiers on.

@Paula, Moore does indeed have a theory of time different from how we typically think which he explores in depth in the first two chapters of part 2. Kinda blew my mind.

Paula wrote: "Drew wrote: "Paula wrote: "BTW, I posted in an earlier thread asking if anyone had realized just who in real life Moore based his character Sir Francis Drake on."

I didn't guess so perhaps you'd c..."

Wow, don't you love it when that happens?!

I have been watching the American version of "Shameless" and had a moment of serendipity while reading Choking on a Tune. I know I'm getting a little ahead of the discussion, but I appreciated Alma's comments on what it was like to grow up poor as opposed to the TV version.

Paula wrote: "BTW, I posted in an earlier thread asking if anyone had realized just who in real life Moore based his character Sir Francis Drake on."

I didn't guess so perhaps you'd care to enlighten me?

Paula wrote: "It reminds me a bit of the old science books in school (I'm dating myself here), where you had those transparent overlays. Each overlay had a piece of the whole. As you laid each overlay on top of the earlier one/s, more and more of the total picture would emerge. It wasn't until the last transparency had been placed that you finally saw the entire picture. "

Beautifully put, Paula! I have the same feeling although I never thought of those transparent overlays.

I ordered the newer translation so should be able to start next week. I thought I had a copy of the earlier translation but now that I think about it, I borrowed it from my mom and it probably was discarded when they moved out of their house. I hope I'm not sorry I chose this translation; this could end up being like the Pevear and Volokhonsky controversy in Russian lit.

Atlantis was the first chapter where I felt bogged down with geographical details. Ben's rambling and wallowing in nostalgia were mildly interesting and, of course, provided more links to other stories. I wish I believed he actually wrote something when he picked up his pen at the end of the chapter.

I certainly have experienced this regretful nostalgia when revisiting the places where I grew up. Perhaps if we had Snowy's ability to perceive time as a continuum, with everything preordained, it wouldn't be so bittersweet.

Yes, the old "Sixth Sense" ploy.

I read this 40 years ago and it made a huge impression on me. I have often thought of rereading it; I hope it doesn't turn out to be one of those books I loved when I was younger that loses its luster when read as a more mature adult.

These two chapters are a great example of the different styles of writing Moore employs. I did find X Marks the Spot rather slow going although it was interesting. And I loved Peter's meeting with Freddy!

So interesting how characters weave their ways through the different chapters!

Cordelia wrote: "It is slow reading for me too. "

Oddly enough, I am not finding it slow going at all. I am using the map quite a bit but that's mainly because I'm a person who likes some visual assistance with orienting myself geographically.

Having said that, I was a little disoriented during "A Host of Angles" because of all the London landmarks. I finally figured out it actually was set in London not Northampton.

Loving this so far! Such dense prose and fabulous descriptions!

I'd like to join you but, like Dianne, I have too many reading commitments right now. Maybe later?

That looks quite doable to me. I'm going to start next Wednesday after I return from vacation.

Dianne wrote: "Ok tell us if it's good!"

I mostly don't want to be disabused of my notion that Julie Christie and Omar Sharif were the most attractive people in the world.