Marius Brill
Auteur van Making Love: A Conspiracy of the Heart
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Werken van Marius Brill
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- male
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Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 2
- Leden
- 83
- Populariteit
- #218,811
- Waardering
- 3.1
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 7
- Talen
- 1
This book is really very funny and, towards the end, extremely gripping. It's about Miranda, who is looking for romance, who discovers a dusty book hidden away on the back of a shelf in the library. Miranda steals the book because the librarian won't let her take any more books out and she is overdue. She is desperate to read it because it contains the secret to finding love. This book turns out to be wanted by the Secret Service as they thought they'd destroyed all exisiting copies. They think it contains a conspiracy theory that they want hushed up. Miranda has a whole range of crazy adventures as the Secret Service try to take the book from her. It all makes for some hilarious reading. Does she get her man in the end? I'm about to find out - don't ruin it for me...
Oh, to add to the quirkiness of this book, the story is actually being told by the book itself! It sees you, the reader, as its lover, after all our relationship with books is pretty intimate, but it wants to tell you about its previous lover... Miranda. What a novel idea in every sense of the word.
This is what I imagine the result would be if you mixed Bridget Jones with Thursday Next (Jasper Fforde) and then dropped in a big dollop of post structural, Barthesian thinking in. Clever, mad, funny, compelling.
I'm really looking forward to Brill's next one - seen it's about to come out - How To Forget... sounds just as mad. Great.… (meer)