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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Hey folks!

Who has read both Wolf Hall n Bring Up The Bodies?

Do ya think the latter was worth the Man Booker prize too?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Hahahahahaha well THIS has proved an ENORMOUSLY popular thread lol

Wonder wot it says bout forumers?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both wonderful books by probably our greatest living author.

Watched her in the documentary about Anne Boleyn recently too and she's a fascinating, if odd looking, woman.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

She doing a very weird hairstyle that's for sure lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have read and enjoyed wolf hall.

Bring up the boddies is in the "to read" pile next to my bed, but it hasanother 30 books in the pile with it so it might be a few days untill i get to it lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I have read and enjoyed wolf hall.

Bring up the boddies is in the "to read" pile next to my bed, but it hasanother 30 books in the pile with it so it might be a few days untill i get to it lol

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Personally I preferred bring up the bodies to Wolf Hall which I found rather difficult to get 'into ' due to the effort involved on occasions working out WHO Mantel was actually referring to!!!

I'm not sure bring/bodies warranted Man Booker prize tho cos I didn't find anything particularly exceptional in its composition, literary style etc. Nothing wrong with it as a book - just not exceptional

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

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"Hahahahahaha well THIS has proved an ENORMOUSLY popular thread lol

Wonder wot it says bout forumers? "

That many have not read the book?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I have read and enjoyed wolf hall.

Bring up the boddies is in the "to read" pile next to my bed, but it hasanother 30 books in the pile with it so it might be a few days untill i get to it lol

Personally I preferred bring up the bodies to Wolf Hall which I found rather difficult to get 'into ' due to the effort involved on occasions working out WHO Mantel was actually referring to!!!

I'm not sure bring/bodies warranted Man Booker prize tho cos I didn't find anything particularly exceptional in its composition, literary style etc. Nothing wrong with it as a book - just not exceptional "

will report back on it when i read it.

Currently reading the josephine b trilogy my sandra guillard

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By *unPeteMan
over a year ago

Near Bristol

I'm a voracious reader but I've missed those two. Think I'll start with the prize winner (although that hasn't always worked in the past).

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I'm a voracious reader but I've missed those two. Think I'll start with the prize winner (although that hasn't always worked in the past).

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Ahoy FUNPETE the Man Booker prize has been won by BOTH books - quite a rare occurrence in itself. If ya gonna read em start wiv Wolf Hall cos the story precedes wot follows in bring/bodies.

I could c why Wolf Hall won but NOT why bring/bodies did too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Hahahahahaha well THIS has proved an ENORMOUSLY popular thread lol

Wonder wot it says bout forumers? "

Too busy reading 50 Shades? (he says, reading The Signal and The Noise - fascinating!)

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By *plankyMan
over a year ago

Beeston

Wolf Hall I thought was the better book. It had a new way of relating events in a way that took you through the history while bringing the characters alive in a fresh and surprising way, or showing them differently to the familiar portraits.

Bring up the Bodies seemed to me to be more remote, more detached, a dryer book without the liveliness of Wolf Hall. Some of the minor characters did not stand out distinctly to the extent they did in Wolf Hall.

But yes, I will be reading the third when it comes out.

Bring up the Bodies deserved to win the Booker because - I took a look at the other ones on the shortlist and wasn't motivated to grab them and start reading.

So there!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

-Splanky - yeah I agree with u on yr assessment of both books - that's just how I found them to be!

Bring/bodies didn't really seem to be in the same class as Wolf Hall

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