![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a bit sarcastic the narrator doesn’t seem to have a fond opinion of anyone except the woman he had an affair with, and he characterizes authors as insincere charlatans, most of whom don’t have actual talent backing up their success. Otherwise, I can’t say I immensely enjoyed Cakes and Ale. That has nothing much to do with the story (except that the author and his wife helped teach the narrator to ride a bike of his own), but it did make me feel like the setting was coming alive and like the narrator was a real person. For instance, the narrator muses on how when he was a child, bicycles were rare, so when you saw someone on one, you stopped what you were doing, turned your head, and watched him ride until he was gone into the distance. This a rare book where I felt like I actually could pop right into the time period of the past and have a sense of what it was like to live then. Instead, my attention was caught by random small details–the setting of the scenes rather than the plot. ![]() ![]() The most memorable parts of the book, for me, are not that the narrator was having an affair and not that the first wife was apparently vivacious and exciting in addition to being promiscuous. ![]()
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