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Darkmans

by Nicola Barker

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Darkmans is an exhilarating, extraordinary examination of the ways in which history can play jokes on us all... If History is just a sick joke which keeps on repeating itself, then who exactly might be telling it, and why? Could it be John Scogin, Edward IV's infamous court jester, whose favorite pastime was to burn people alive - for a laugh? Or... (more)

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Lindsay A
  • Rated 4 stars

The writing is beautiful and fluid, and the characters are all amazingly three-dimensional and fascinating. For these reasons alone, I loved the book. As I finished, I couldn't shake this nagging feeling that I had missed a much larger point in the subtext, but I don't think this diminshed my enjoyment of the book at all. Big picture or not- I couldn't put it down.

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Tamara J
  • Rated 2 stars

There was a lot of backstory that I liked quite a bit, but overall I found the book confusing and lacking cohesion. True, everything was connected in the end, but it was unsettling and not always convincing enough for me to suspend disbelief. I did like some of the odd relationships that evolved, and most especially the 2-legged dog. I don't know that I'd read through it again, though.

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  • Rated 3.5 stars
 

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