tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post1556587591779710662..comments2023-09-20T17:55:43.908-05:00Comments on BookLust: Review: Company of LiarsAartihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02354873119188597611noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post-58836855845507820522009-04-14T23:13:00.000-05:002009-04-14T23:13:00.000-05:00I thought the same thing about the Canterbury Tale...I thought the same thing about the Canterbury Tales comparison. Set roughly at the same time? Check. A ragtag group of characters? Check, though not as representative a cross-section as Chaucer invented. A trip? Check, but not a pilgrimage exactly. A frame narrative in which characters tell stories? Kind of, but not exactly. I did like the book after I got into it, but it took me a while to get into.Dana Huffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04740976543219083443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post-2892867530121168682008-09-29T19:17:00.000-05:002008-09-29T19:17:00.000-05:00Dear Booklust,My firm, Dissident Books, will relea...Dear Booklust,<BR/><BR/>My firm, Dissident Books, will release a its debut title next month: "Notes on Democracy: A New Edition." It includes all of the original book written by H. L. Mencken in 1926, plus an introduction and annotations by Mencken scholar Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and an afterword by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis.<BR/><BR/>Please tell me via email where I can send you a review copy.<BR/><BR/>Best regards,<BR/><BR/>Nicholas Towasser<BR/>email: publisher@dissidentbooks.com, NicholasTowasser@gmail.comNicholas Towasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12596571533821045468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post-80312191592242319082008-09-26T16:50:00.000-05:002008-09-26T16:50:00.000-05:00I have been waiting for this one to come out for a...I have been waiting for this one to come out for awhile now. Based on the review, maybe I'll wait a little longer.Zibileehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05857638467064749190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post-71764787736307621932008-09-16T07:58:00.000-05:002008-09-16T07:58:00.000-05:00Think I'll give this one a skip.Think I'll give this one a skip.Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post-83802914969886772882008-09-15T22:57:00.000-05:002008-09-15T22:57:00.000-05:00We're in complete agreement about this novel not r...We're in complete agreement about this novel not remotely resembling a "reinterpretation" of <I>The Canterbury Tales</I>, as I said in my review at <A HREF="http://www.HistoricalNovels.info/Company-of-Liars.html" REL="nofollow">www.HistoricalNovels.info</A>. A group of travelers, yes, and they do tell a few stories, but unlike <I>Canterbury Tales</I>, this is not a short story collection. I did get a strong sense of the historical time and place, though, with the pervasive fear of a deadly illness people really didn't understand, and the desperate clinging to superstition. Though the travelers didn't always seem as firmly in their own time as the people they encountered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7343567357202223317.post-34048241755469884362008-09-15T12:44:00.000-05:002008-09-15T12:44:00.000-05:00Hmm. I'll have to pick it up anyway, the plague is...Hmm. I'll have to pick it up anyway, the plague is kind of my "thing" but I'll keep your caveats in mind. It's always better to go in with lower expectations, in any event.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com