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Just for the record I didn't. I got the Wessex reference but had only read the one blighted tragic novel.

Can't stand the writings of the whole damned Victorian lot of them, with an exception for some dickens.

Dreary bunch, always full of women staring out of windows, whining about ducks going to Moseley ;)

El Pibe Wrote:

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> Just for the record I didn't. I got the Wessex

> reference but had only read the one blighted

> tragic novel.

> Can't stand the writings of the whole damned

> Victorian lot of them, with an exception for some

> dickens.

> Dreary bunch, always full of women staring out of

> windows, whining about ducks going to Moseley ;)




Apologies. I just thought you couldn't be bothered to tax your brain thinking up clues on this lovely, sunny weekend!


As for T. Hardy, I agree his books were a bit dreary, but the film & tv adaptions were great.

ianr Wrote:

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> Maigret


over to you, ianr

sorry for keeping everyone in suspense


ETA I haven't read a lot of Hardy but what I've read is pretty good and cracks along - you're being rather unfair, EP and AM! Probably too many set books at school.

I'd rather read a proper solid Victorian novel with ladies and ducks than many of today's lot, obesessing solipsistically about (usually failed) relationships and alcohol/cigs/other stuff.

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