Book: Earthly Powers
Sep. 10th, 2005 03:35 pmAuthor: Anthony Burgess
Details: (c) 1980 Anthony Burgess; Pub Avon 1981; ISBN 0-380-56903-5
Verdict: Earthly Powers is fascinatingly detailed and many-layered piece, though it's a little short on action.
Reasons for reading it:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rysmiel enthused about it, and then showed me the opening sentence. (I liked said opening even more once I'd read a few paragraphs in.)
How it came into my hands: Shortly after this conversationrysmiel took me on a tour of Montreal's second-hand bookshops and I found a copy.
( detailed review )
Details: (c) 1980 Anthony Burgess; Pub Avon 1981; ISBN 0-380-56903-5
Verdict: Earthly Powers is fascinatingly detailed and many-layered piece, though it's a little short on action.
Reasons for reading it:
rysmiel enthused about it, and then showed me the opening sentence. (I liked said opening even more once I'd read a few paragraphs in.)How it came into my hands: Shortly after this conversation
rysmiel took me on a tour of Montreal's second-hand bookshops and I found a copy.( detailed review )
