Advantages: some of the story telling is interesting and well told. Disadvantages: see review!
Book Summary...
During the summer whilst the successful actor Molly Fox is on holiday in New York, she loans her Dublin home to her playwright friend (and narrator) so that she might start writing her new play. It is the longest day of the year as well as it being her friend Molly?s birthday, and the playwright is finding it increasingly difficult to find her inspiration and instead turns her attention to her own life, reflecting on her past and her relationship with Molly and their mutual friend Andrew.
Several questions are addressed throughout the novel through the playwrights (who is never named) reflections; how have her relationships with her friends developed over the years? What is the distinction between a good actor and a great one? And why does Molly Fox never celebrate her birthday?
My Thoughts ...
Advantages: Great characters, interesting, great author Disadvantages: Over-complex, not as good as other Walters books
Minette Walters is one of my favourite authors. I have read about six of her novels so far and intend to read all she has published. I find her books interesting, exciting and they aren't too similar to each other either. I also like the way she often punctuates her chapters of text with 'evidence' in the form of letters, text messages, news reports and so on.
One of the best books I read in 2007 was Acid Row by Minette Walters and I decided to begin 2008 with another of her novels - Fox Evil. A weighty paperback of 557 pages, I looked forward to getting engrossed in another thrilling story.
Early on in the book though, I realised it hadn't gripped me as much as a Minette Walters normally does. I think the problem was that it was all a bit complicated and confusing. Obviously, a good story needs a variety of characters, sub ...
Advantages: A Joyous read Disadvantages: None, it`s a Roald Dahl book
?Down in the valley there were three farms. The owners of these farms had done well. They were rich men. They were also nasty men. Their names were Farmer Boggis, Farmer Bunce and Farmer Bean.?
Life is good for Mr Fox ? living in a hole beneath a tree in the woods which overlooked the three vast farms of Boggis, Bunce and Bean; he lived there with Mrs Fox and their four fox children. Every day he would ask Mrs Fox what she wanted for dinner ? be it a plump chicken or two from Boggis, a fat brace of ducks from Bunce or a huge turkey from Bean, and whatever Mrs Fox decided on would be taken by cover of night. Mr Fox was the most cunning of foxes and so thus far had not been caught by any of the farmers while in the act of stealing their precious birds, and this made Boggis, Bunce and Bean as mad as can be. They took it in turns to guard ...
