2017 Analysing Discourse: Reading Metaphors in Reader Reviews by Helen Ringrow https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors en-us 2017-10-11 11:59:06 UTC 2026-01-25 17:09:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png Reading as Control helenringrow https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/195972452 2017-10-11 12:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/195972452 Reading as Transportation helenringrow https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/195972532 2017-10-11 12:00:41 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/195972532 Reading as Investment helenringrow https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/195972626 2017-10-11 12:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/195972626 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778377 settle in for a fascinating trip through the links between religion, family and one of the possible new and strange worlds there might be]]> 2017-10-13 12:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778377 I frankly don't want to waste my time with your crappy-ass book. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778583 2017-10-13 12:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778583 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778747 one whose individuals will move the reader ]]> 2017-10-13 12:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778747 I still remember the gloomy sensation that it left me.The book is indeed gloomy and part of its success is due to Orwell's ability to render almost real the gloomy world in which the novel is set. Life can be gloomy but it can also be bright, so I choose the bright side. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778970 2017-10-13 12:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778970 His writing is lyrical, haunting, poetic, profound. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778981

]]> 2017-10-13 12:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196778981 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779097 Flynn left me hanging and not wanting to put the book down every time I finished another chapter. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779097 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779142 again and again I was pulled into the storyworld ]]> 2017-10-13 12:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779142 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779337 Gone Girl is well written and gripping to the extent that I had to put it down and walk away from time to time. Several others who have reviewed this book have complained that the ending leaves the reader hanging. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779337 this piece is truly astounding. It's both a brilliant book as well as being incredibly insightful. It manages to demonstrate the inner workings of a totalitarian state and really opened my eyes as to the sorts of tactics that can be employed in these scenarios. Not only this but it managed to teach me about quite a few concepts. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779356 2017-10-13 12:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779356 an early moral decision by two of the characters grabbed me straight away https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779451 2017-10-13 12:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779451 I can't go any further without talking about the writing itself. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779484 2017-10-13 12:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779484 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779589 For me, it held my interest and had my emotions twisting in the wind. A total whizbang roller coaster ride! ]]> 2017-10-13 12:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779589 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779688  The decision to include real-life global events pays off well ]]> 2017-10-13 12:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779688 I was involved in the book up to that point, but after that, this book owned me. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779788 2017-10-13 12:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779788 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779906  The narrative becomes a bit stodgy ....... Yet in many other ways the novel is very sophisticated ....]]> 2017-10-13 12:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779906 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779943 left me wondering throughout the book ]]> 2017-10-13 12:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196779943 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780003 This book is a roller coaster ride for sure. You know how the ride up is slow that is the beginning of this book. Then you reach the peak which is part two with its amazing twist and turns finishing in, what feels so quickly, part three. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780003 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780164 I was just too hooked on the book again]]> 2017-10-13 12:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780164 makes me feel slighly hostile towards my computer as I type this review! https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780214 2017-10-13 12:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780214 I can't get over how everything just fell into place perfectly https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780267 2017-10-13 12:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780267 Hotel Alpha is engaging, compassionate and real https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780349 2017-10-13 12:45:03 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780349 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780496 I was still on my toes while I was turning the pages of my book. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780496 bring the reader to the heart of what makes the hotel tick https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780515 2017-10-13 12:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780515 ........ giving little melodrammatic pronouncements that make you shiver. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780530 2017-10-13 12:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780530 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780580 This book just met my expectations, and I want more ]]> 2017-10-13 12:45:43 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780580 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780668 As far as I was concerned, this is irresistible. What I actually got from The Book of Strange New Things is much more than that. This book made me dream of it. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780668 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780730  
Those words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 

]]> 2017-10-13 12:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780730 emotional involvement is gently evoked to provoke caring ...... This could potentially be in all 3 catgeories https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780733 2017-10-13 12:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780733 I found myself enchanted with his view of the world https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780734 2017-10-13 12:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780734 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780895  Rarely has an author transported me to another world that is as fully realised as this one ]]> 2017-10-13 12:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196780895 I struggled initially with this book as it is written in the style of a 5 year old's thoughts - a bit haphazard and not completely fluid. However once I got used to the prose, I got deeply into the book and enjoyed it thoroughly. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196781046 2017-10-13 12:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196781046 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196781765 Michel Faber made me care for them very deeply ]]> 2017-10-13 12:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196781765 I just can't get past how bad the writing is https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782297 2017-10-13 12:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782297 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782345 Compelling, hypnotic, really rather extraordinary and, for me, unputdownable ]]> 2017-10-13 12:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782345 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782466  And I still return to this book like a bark seeking a lighthouse in the dark]]> 2017-10-13 12:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782466 I'm really looking forward to how that shift becomes more prominent in the later books. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782484 2017-10-13 12:49:52 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782484 I never would've learned any of this if I never decided to pick up these books. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782509 2017-10-13 12:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782509 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782557  1984 by George Orwell arrived very quickly ]]> 2017-10-13 12:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782557 that just lets the background detail flag a little https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782832 2017-10-13 12:50:38 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196782832 (I devoured it quite quickly https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783154 2017-10-13 12:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783154 Over the years, I realize that without knowing it, it has become my personal Bible – a beacon to keep me from straying from the path of kindness and compassion, no matter what. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783220 2017-10-13 12:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783220 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783225  you will feel trapped in a bleak world ]]> 2017-10-13 12:51:23 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783225 I can slowly see https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783430 2017-10-13 12:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783430 The story has Montero come across a small advertisement in a newspaper that seems tailored to him ninoskagiron https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783780 2017-10-13 12:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783780 I'm really looking forward to how that shift becomes more prominent in the later books. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783859 2017-10-13 12:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783859 When he reaches the house he finds himself immediately immersed in darkness ninoskagiron https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783948 2017-10-13 12:53:01 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196783948 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784012 and this web of secrets, mysteries and resolutions play out very well.
 
 ]]> 2017-10-13 12:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784012 Sounding almost too good to be true, Montero can't immediately bring himself to apply for the position ninoskagiron https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784252 2017-10-13 12:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784252 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784261  Reading 1984 feels like sitting in a dark room ]]> 2017-10-13 12:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784261 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784477  This is a hefty book ....– the more adventurous you are as a reader the more you will enjoy it ]]> 2017-10-13 12:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196784477 it is unlikely anyone knew the direction the book could and would go. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785248 2017-10-13 12:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785248 It is beautifully written and totally convincing. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785271 2017-10-13 12:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785271 I read books for aesthetic pleasure. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785421 2017-10-13 12:56:23 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785421 in a way that allows you to savor every word and absorb the power and the magic it contains. All the while, you know what’s going to happen. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785480 2017-10-13 12:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785480 Practically before he realizes it, Montero is seduced by and caught in this peculiar but also seductive web, not even leaving the house again ninoskagiron https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785556 2017-10-13 12:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785556 There have been books in the past I have struggled with before putting down https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785575 2017-10-13 12:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785575 Only very few people will be gripped by this book https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785817 2017-10-13 12:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785817 My whole body was tingling with fear because I knew what was coming and I knew that it was only a matter of time https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785884 2017-10-13 12:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785884 Let's see how this one will go! https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785889 2017-10-13 12:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785889 and only the murders actually held my attention particularly well. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785995 2017-10-13 12:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196785995 It managed to surpass my high expectations AND be nothing at all like I expected. Or in Newspeak "Double Plus Good." https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786021 2017-10-13 12:57:45 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786021 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786578 Then I picked up the trilogy bound in one volume and went through it fairly steadily.]]> 2017-10-13 12:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786578 At the beginning, I felt somewhat intimidated by the idea of Death as a narrator. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786587 2017-10-13 12:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786587 It may well suck you right in. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786608 2017-10-13 12:59:04 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786608 I will never be able to remove from my mind the vision of Eliza https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786700 2017-10-13 12:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786700 I was captivated by the wonderful characters in this book https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786745 2017-10-13 12:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786745 This book had me asking questions about my life, my beliefs, and my society on just about every page....and when the reader gets to the end (which I won't spoil here), the reader is forced to ask themself the kind of person they really are. If ever there was a novel that could be called a litmus test, it's this one. "The Life of Pi" will, at the very least, entertain through its sharp storytelling, but it can also help a reader examine how they see the world - and isn't that the point of great literature? https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786780 2017-10-13 12:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786780 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786916 Slowly I wound my way, sometimes following Sam and Frodo, sometimes Aragorn. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786916 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786956 This is a lyrical, poignant, heartbreaking, soul-shattering story disjointedly told by a nearly-omniscient, fascinated by humans narrator - Death. ]]> 2017-10-13 12:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786956 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786981   I'm still trying to find a glimmer of hope ]]> 2017-10-13 12:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196786981 although not gripping in everyone's sense of the word https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787139 2017-10-13 13:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787139 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787148 As it unfolded I was transported into a world of antique books, family secrets and intrigue ]]> 2017-10-13 13:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787148 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787285 The story was slow and at some points stopped altogether ]]> 2017-10-13 13:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787285 , I loved the way that everything wove together https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787307 2017-10-13 13:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787307 That alone kept me turning the pages https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787466 2017-10-13 13:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787466 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787586 Here, the action rattles along at a fair pace. ]]> 2017-10-13 13:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787586 I'm such a f*****g fan. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787689 2017-10-13 13:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787689 I just cannot stop reading Lucinda Riley's Seven Sisters series, they are just totally amazing https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787708 2017-10-13 13:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787708 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787732 The problem is that this readability frequently comes at the expense of realism. ]]> 2017-10-13 13:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787732 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787897 the plot is flowing ]]> 2017-10-13 13:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196787897 I should warn you that this is a very immersive book, it literary makes time fly https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788096 2017-10-13 13:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788096 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788104  not worth the effort ]]> 2017-10-13 13:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788104 Jack and Ma are certainly going to stay with me for a long time after finishing this book. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788299 2017-10-13 13:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788299 this book made me wince and gasp quite often. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788362 2017-10-13 13:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788362 It's not that it was bad, it's just that I wish the tiger had eaten him so the story wouldn't exist.I read half of it, and felt really impatient the whole time, skipping whole pages, and then I realized that I didn't have to keep going, which is as spiritual a moment as I could hope to get from this book. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788506 2017-10-13 13:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788506 The Shadow Sister is a captivating read, full of emotion and detail that will take your breath away https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788603 2017-10-13 13:03:55 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788603 I found myself stuck in the unusual place where as a reader I find a story plausible with full knowledge that had this story been presented in real life I would have doubted its authenticity. I wanted to believe the story and all its fantasy. The end initially annoyed me, but if you look at the rich metaphors in the story, it becomes delectable for a story analyst like me. There is nothing I enjoy more than tearing apart a story and pulling out the intentions and symbols buried inside. Instead of just a fantastical story, you find a fable with a https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788683 2017-10-13 13:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788683 sarahcatherinewaters https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788942  Please, don't waste your time on this lazily written nonsense ]]> 2017-10-13 13:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196788942 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196789005 This is a wonderful, lyrical, surreal, excellent book that broke my heart into tiny little pieces and yet gave me hope that even in the worst of times we can find beauty. ]]> 2017-10-13 13:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196789005 Felipe and Aura soon become lovers ninoskagiron https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196789301 2017-10-13 13:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196789301 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196789656 Bringing the fantasy into our own reality was surreal and interesting ]]> 2017-10-13 13:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196789656 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792001 I have moved past really liking and caring about the characters]]> 2017-10-13 13:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792001 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792321 spreading the story out too thin ]]> 2017-10-13 13:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792321 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792328 I was taken by surprise]]> 2017-10-13 13:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792328 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792448 I didn't think it would pull me in like it did]]> 2017-10-13 13:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792448 https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792853 Please pick up this series if you have not, I promise it will not disappoint]]> 2017-10-13 13:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196792853 One of the reasons for the success of the book is the voice of the storyteller that Donoghue has managed to capture. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196793165 2017-10-13 13:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196793165 The story is full of the traditional intrigue and excitement. I have always loved Jeffrey Archer books and this series is one of my favourites. Can't wait to read the last in the series even if I have to wait until 2015.37 likes · Like ∙ flag https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196793179 2017-10-13 13:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196793179 I’ve memorized almost every scene and I still can’t shake off the feeling that I still have to learn a lot from it https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196793797 2017-10-13 13:15:18 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196793797 It kept knocking me out of the story. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196794129 2017-10-13 13:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196794129 I'm such a peasant for judging this series before I had read it https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795150 ??]]> 2017-10-13 13:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795150 When I first finished it, I was so overwhelmed by how much I related to it, I read it nearly 8 times before the year ended https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795267 2017-10-13 13:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795267 Forgive my sin, and all the times when I said, "I don't think Harry Potter is really my thing" https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795356 2017-10-13 13:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795356 This book has teeth. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795462 2017-10-13 13:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795462 Instead of getting wrapped into the story, every night I when I was reading it I'd throw it down and vent for a half an hour ..... https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795487 2017-10-13 13:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795487 This saga is draggin out a bit too long for me. This is number 4 in the Clifton Family soap opera and there is at least one more to go. Strikes me that old Jeffrey is just making hay while he can. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795588 2017-10-13 13:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795588 This series isn't up it's own ass https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795925 2017-10-13 13:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196795925 Forgive me, because this book changed the game https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196796474 2017-10-13 13:20:46 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196796474 Clifton Chronicles in the fourth episode first drifts then decays and by the end simply disintegrates into a purposeless record of a barely interesting family. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196796572 2017-10-13 13:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196796572 God damn me! How could I have been so blind? https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196796914 2017-10-13 13:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196796914 It keeps trying to evoke reader emotions through the same story tricks used frequently in the previous books but they are no longer charming, if not outright annoying. https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196797237 2017-10-13 13:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196797237 Jeffrey Archer forces me, and other readers alike, to wait a whole year before we can get the book 5 in the Clifton Chronicles?!?! https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196798207 2017-10-13 13:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196798207 I was really looking forward to giving this a read, https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196801981 2017-10-13 13:31:28 UTC https://padlet.com/helenringrow/2017metaphors/wish/196801981