tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post3888329563528489335..comments2023-11-01T02:35:48.057+00:00Comments on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf: Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan RhodesGeraniumCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03010199887691558717noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-41352619072277049902010-03-10T15:20:54.140+00:002010-03-10T15:20:54.140+00:00Hannah, I'm happy to wallow in tragedy if I ca...Hannah, I'm happy to wallow in tragedy if I can see good reason. Other people who reviewed it on LibraryThing seemed to like it much better.<br /><br />Librarian, I hate those updated covers which seem to have nothing to do with the plot!Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-52441485314937889272010-03-08T17:32:59.627+00:002010-03-08T17:32:59.627+00:00So right about the sometimes misleading covers and...So right about the sometimes misleading covers and comments like the "savagely funny" one!<br />I remember a book that was, according to one such comment taken from a newspaper review, supposed to be "scary and spooky". I could not find anyhting like that in the book; to me, the story of two sisters who are so trapped in their own lives that they never leave the house their mother and father left them in, even when they could have, was overall just very, very sad.<br />And an example of totally misleading cover is an edition of a Gábor von Vaszáry novel - the author lived from 1897 to 1985, and a lot of his stories were set in the decades from the 1930s to the 60s, but a later edition showed not the charming drawings that I remembered, instead, a photograph of a snogging couple that made you think more of soft porn than of a self-ironic comedy.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-41384581699448553852010-03-08T16:17:55.423+00:002010-03-08T16:17:55.423+00:00Interesting review - thanks for sharing. It is a s...Interesting review - thanks for sharing. It is a shame that you didn't enjoy this as much all that - I agree that it is very hard to cope with tragedy that has no point...<br /><br />Thanks for sharing<br /><br />HannahHannah Stonehamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11139146341592918233noreply@blogger.com