The Book Depository Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington
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Description: Narrow Dog To Carcassonne : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780553816693 : : 27 Jun 2006 : When they retired, Terry and Monica Darlington decided to sail their canal narrow boat across the Channel and down to the Mediterranean, together with their whippet Jim. They took advice from experts, who said they would die, together with their whippet Jim. Aliens, vandals, and the walking dead all stand between three innocents and their goal. The Book Depository Narrow Dog To Carcassonne by Terry Darlington - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Author: Hereward the Wakeful
Rating: 5
Review: Having read LTC Rolt, Steve Haywood and Paul Gogarty on narrowboating - all of them with their own merits - I have to admit that Terry Darlington's offering is the only one that made me laugh out loud. Before picking up Carcassone I was a bit worried by the negative reviews which focused on the writing style but having leapt gazelle-like over the very first place where ordinarily there should have been quote marks I gambolled on without further worry. This isn't classic EngLit but it is innovative - or at least it appears to be in my view as I am not a student of literature. Try reading Joyce if you want to complain about style - and he made it into the pantheon of scribblers! Carcassone isn't difficult to get into if you permit yourself the same sense of humour that drove the writing. If you've got a funny bone you'll laugh. Maybe a little experience of the French accent delivering spoken English might help.
Author: Anne
Rating: 3
Review: I was interested in the canal journey and parts made me laugh out loud but halfway through the book, it became repetitive particularly the descriptions of Jim the dog who has centre stage and as I am not a dog enthusiast just became tedious. Oddly while being so indulgent of the dog the author does not seem to like many humans he meets and complains all the shops in France are shut and the restaurant. This was an irritating generalisation and just what you'd expect from a grumpy Brit. I am not sure I am going to finish the book. I read this books for my book group out of 10 of us only 2 had finished it and normally we have all completed the book, clearly I was not the only one to who's enthusiasm ran out.
