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[personal profile] jreynolds197 2022-04-19 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Fifth Business was on the curriculum when I was going to high school in the late 1980s.

Went and read the rest of the trilogy, then many of Davies other works due to that.

Only his last two books (Murther and Walking Spirits and The Cunning Man) were complete disappointments1.

1 To me, anyway.
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[personal profile] viktor_haag 2022-04-19 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree. I loved the first two books of the Cornish Trilogy, far more, in fact, than his earlier work, but the drop in quality with The Lyre Of Orpheus was shocking to me. I tried Murther and Walking Spirits, it was no better, and I thought, oh that's sad, but I guess I'd best not proceed any further. 8(
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