Thinks… – David Lodge

Another book group choice, and one about which I was initially enthusiastic, until reading the blurb. Many people eschew, as a matter of course, the back cover spiel; with good reason. But I, alas, do not. ‘Comic,’ didn’t bode well, and nor did the information that it is about philandering and affairs. Thinks [grumpily] ‘if those things interested me I would be watching soaps and not reading at all…’

What I am trying to convey here is a complete lack of objectivity which will hopefully account for my unmitigated negativity.
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