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The Shadow of the Wind

You might find the core story of teenage infatuation carried into adulthood slightly nauseous. You might find Julian Carax's obsessively self-indulgent attitude to be slightly nauseous. You might even find the rendering of Julian as a Harry Potter/Tony Blair style hero to his friends more than slightly nauseous. But none of this will detract from the fact that the novel as a whole is held together by Zafon's skill a writer.

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Hunting Unicorns

It deals with stereotypes and, in particular, how the Brits and the Yanks always misunderstand and underestimate each other, but some parts [unintentionally?] of it actually seemed coarse to me and made me flinch: we are after all supposed to live in a racially tolerant and enlightened society - not in one that feels like its ideas are wedged, at least in part, in the 1950s.

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Lovely Bones

Lovely Bones, is a Lovely Story: about love and hope; families and friendships; heaven and earth; life and death; growing up and growing old; about coming to terms with the "inbetween" and our need to both move on and yet to stay exactly where we are.

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Lovely Bones

Lovely Bones, is a Lovely Story: about love and hope; families and friendships; heaven and earth; life and death; growing up and growing old; about coming to terms with the "inbetween" and our need to both move on and yet to stay exactly where we are.

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