Before She Met Me

The moral of this book, which applies mostly to women, is that you should not get married to someone who, if they discover by accident that you had an earlier career as a porn actress which you had felt, quite understandably, that you didn't need to mention, will go very quietly mad, so quietly that......more

Subjectively speaking, while this reads like an objective 4* book, one which is more taut and relentlessly single-minded than Julian Barnes's admittedly more-endearing (in its first half anyway) debut, it was nevertheless a 1* read for me--just as Othello is my least favourite of Shakespeare's maste......more

[2.5*,μάλλον] Πρόκειται για ένα βιβλίο με κάποια απ’ τα καλά στοιχεία του Barnes να κάνουν την εμφάνισή τους: χιούμορ (πιστεύω στα ελληνικά «χάνεται» κάπως στη μετάφραση,αλλά υπάρχουν στιγμές που καταλαβαίνεις ότι κάποιο αστείο υπάρχει στην αγγλική έκδοση),γραφή που ρέει με αποτέλεσμα το βιβλίο να δι......more