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Bezig met laden... Liverpool Fantasydoor Larry Kirwan
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Tommie1 | Jul 24, 2015 |  The novel starts off very strong with John Lennon's character standing out above the other members of the band. Even though the story centers around the Fab Four it's fair to say that Lennon is the main character in the novel. So the band has a disagreement with their management - I guess no-one had told them that all you need is love - and John, George and Ringo leave the studio never to come back. Paul McCartney stays and pursues a solo career becoming a mainstay in Las Vegas as showman Paul Montana. Meanwhile Lennon becomes a bitter recluse who's somewhat of a nowhere man and who can't find work, George Harrison becomes a priest, probably worshiping Lady Madonna although we're never told such, while Ringo lives off his wife who doesn't seem to care about that...must have been real love. While the characters of The Beatles are essential to the novel it's the backdrop of the society they live in that drags this novel down. The National Front (white supremacists) are a major force in this version of England and while some stand aside and let it be others, like Lennon, want to oppose the fascism but are too afraid. When he does speak out he gets his ass kicked and so no-one in this very bleak society is portrayed as being as free as a bird. Bleak. That one word sums up this book and even at 310 pages it's far too long with the story drawn out way beyond what is needed. It was like travelling down the long and winding road for eight days a week and never really getting anywhere in the process. At times I wanted to be doing something else, to be anywhere else rather than reading this book...residing across the universe, relaxing in an octopus's garden in the shade, lounging in strawberry fields forever or shopping in Penny Lane (my dad lives there!) would have been preferable to sitting on my sofa reading a book that was boring me to sleep. Hell, I would rather have been with Lucy in the sky with diamonds! I should have known better than to get my hopes up on a book I had never heard of until I accidentally stumbled across it online but the premise seemed good and I bought a ticket to ride so to speak and hoped that it would please, please me. When the book arrived it turned out to be a case of "here comes the sun" only, upon reading, to realize I had misinterpreted the weather, that the clouds were coming back, and all I got was rain. Oh well, I can't go back to yesterday so what's done is done and I'm actually glad to be done with this novel. I would be asking for a refund but I don't care too much for money as money can't buy me love. The idea of the novel is worth a couple of points out of ten, and the characterization worth another, but it's not written particularly well and it reads like it's 1000 pages instead of just over 300. Even if you're a huge fan of 'The Beatles, like I am, I wouldn't recommend this book. As a fun aside there are 27 Beatles song titles mentioned in this review. Can you name them all? If not, the answers are below. Back in the USSR Paperback Writer Come Together Help! Twist and Shout From Me to You All You Need is Love Nowhere Man Lady Madonna Real Love Let it Be Free as a Bird The Long and Winding Road Eight Days a Week Something Across the Universe Octopus's Garden Strawberry Fields Forever Penny Lane Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Ticket to Ride Please, Please Me Here Comes the Sun Rain Yesterday Can't buy Me Love Day Tripper ( ) BookMarcBlogpants | May 27, 2011 |  ) PhoebeReading | Nov 24, 2010 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It's 1987, and the Beatles are gathering in Liverpool for a reunion. It has been twenty-five years since John Lennon walked out of the Parlophone studios, taking George and Ringo with him. Paul, American-speaking and -acting, has become the world-famous Las Vegas entertainer Paul Montana, and he's visiting Liverpool for the first time since 1962, hoping to reunite with his boyhood chums, the once "hottest little quartet--in Liverpool." Father George, now a Jesuit priest, is recovering from a nervous breakdown; John is embittered, alcoholic, unemployed, and on the dole. His wife has left him, and young Julian has joined the fascist National Front. Ringo lives on the earnings of his entrepreneurial hairdressing wife while he and John sit in weekends with old rivals, Gerry and the Pacemakers. It is Lennon's curse that he can imagine what might have been. Liverpool Fantasy is a blackly comic meditation on the enduring hazards of friendship, the alchemy of collaboration, and what aworld without the Beatles--that is, without idealism--looks like. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (2.96)
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