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I was actually on the verge of giving up and investing in yet another reliable Jilly Cooper when I spotted this book, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen. Of course I'd heard of it, and vaguely knew there was a movie, but it was one of those books I'd never got round to reading. I can't remember ... Read review
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...when I spotted this book, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen. Of course I'd heard of it, and vaguely knew there was a movie, but it was one of those books I'd never got round to reading. I can't remember who defined a classic novel as a book no-one had read but everyone thought they ought to have, but they're pretty much right.
So I bought it and read it, and am now wondering how on earth I never got round to it before. It is quite simply one of the ... ...come across. It is always a mystery to me why fiction writing is rated so much higher than non-fiction writing, as the latter is just as difficult to do well, and I challenge any novelist to produce work as clear and poetic, as passionate and flowing as this.
So what's it all about? On the most simple level, it is Karen Blixen's account of the years she spent in Africa, Kenya to be precise, running a coffee farm with her husband. But much much more ...
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