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Fingersmith

Fingersmith

List Price: $15.00
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Heavens to Little Nell!!!
Review: This gay Dickensian novel has it all---orphans, pickpockets (i.e.,fingersmiths), villians, switched identities,and heroes (or rather heroines).Not to mention love,romance and delicious moments upon featherbeds. Ms Waters delights in inserting modern homosexual slang just to tease the reader. And we find out that in Victorian England,"to be gay" means to engage in an act of prostituion---to pick up a trick. This tale also serves as a cautionary narrative about bibliophilia, as the plot revolves around the compilation of a monumental collection of pornographic literature. This element of the story is bibliomaniac's delight.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Makes you want to live in Victorian Times
Review: This is the book that is by my bedside. Even months after I have read it, I sometimes read a chapter just to revisit Ms. Water's characters. Waters is a great writer, and luckily for us she writes about lesbians. All her books are favorites of mine. The drama and the love that can be found in Victorian England keeps you glued to the pages. Buy them all.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I've added this one to my top 10 favorite books of all time!
Review: I have recommended this book to many people, explaining that it is simply one of the best books I have ever read. When they ask what it is about, I say "it is set in late 19th century England and is about two rogues (a young woman and a youngish man) who try and steal a rich young woman's fortune by declaring her mad and having her locked up." To tell more is to give away the delicious plot twists of this absorbing novel. An engaging love story between the two female characters runs throughout, adding an element of humanity and tenderness to the story. Some of the writing is rather dense, and it will not appeal to all readers, but if you love suspense, romance, and jaw dropping plot twists, you will not be disappointed with this one!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Tedious...
Review: I'm sorry but I have to disagree with many of the other reviewers of this book. It's taken me a long time to read (3wks) because my interest in it has been waning. In my view the narrative is at times turgid and flawed, dialogue implausible and the description is lacking. The few bits of heightened tension are when the two main characters have a 'liaison' whilst letting on to each other next morning that they were asleep. Also, when one of the key characters is killed. For such a fat volume there's not much going on that couldn't be tailored neatly into 100 pages. Dickensian it is not. Read this and then read anything from Dickens and then you'll realise the difference is like walking from the night into day. You get the impression that the author herself got bored with the process of writing it and only livened up at the start and towards the end of the book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: OK, So my wife talked me into this...
Review: My wife is a big fan of historical anglophile fiction, but when she told me (way too much) about the plot of this book, even though I'm like Mr. Nonfiction guy, I thought, "Hey, I think I'd better check this one out." I have not been disappointed - I'm about 400 pages in, and I can't wait to get to 401. Buy this book. Read this book. Tell your friends.

I've read a few reviews that say this book is reminscent of Dickensian sorts of things, but I think it's a closer parallel to George Elliott's Middlemarch, to the point where I think it's deliberate, with the stuffy Uncle, the roguish gentleman suitor, etc.

Again, check it out. It won't disappoint.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Sara Waters truly lives up to her name !
Review: I thought at first it was pointless and the story seemed to drag on and on. It intrigued me though how they compared her to Dicken's . Then I see why. This story truly lived up from the past books that Sarah wrote. The relationship between Maud and Susan and on how the plot twist upon them makes you pick the book up and read it non-stop !

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What a FIND!
Review: At first, I was put off by the first few chapters. They were slow and I couldn't relate to any of the characters. I decided, after reading several reviews here on Amazon to pick the book back up. I am so glad I did. This is the first Sarah Water's novels I've read and I can hardly wait to get my hands on another. Fingersmith was beautifully written. The characters were stunning. I especially loved Maud. She was described so well. I was mesmerized by her soft nature and sensitivity. This book is a page turner. I highly recommend it!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Period Piece
Review: _Fingersmith_ ranks with, perhaps surpasses, my long-favorite Victorian styled & set modern novel, John Fowles' _The French Lieutenant's Woman. _Fingersmith_'s early scenes are from the poorest, most crowded, and most corrupt streets of Dickensian London. Then the novel takes a turn into real depravity, as we visit the world of the Victorian sexual imagination -- a world where very nasty books take the place of human emotion and human contact. The extraordinarily well-rendered settings are worth the 5 stars; the twists and re-doublings of Waters's plot stand as a bonus. Great reading!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: somewhere in this house walk lunatics
Review: I finished this book quick! At 582 pages Fingersmith is a dense read, but the story was really entertaining and had so many twists and turns that I had a hard time putting it down.

Sarah Waters is an award-winning writer from the UK who's gaining a reputation and I'm really glad I finally gave one of her books a try. I enjoyed Fingersmith so much that I plan on reading another one of her books very soon. I think she's the best writers of modern Gothic fiction I've come across in years.

If you're a fan of the Bronte sisters and Charles Dickens you will be impressed with the way Sarah Waters takes some of their best storytelling techniques and gives them new life. The story is told in 3 parts and by the time you've reached part 1 (there are 3 parts to the book) I almost guarantee that you won't be able to put the book down until you've finished it.

Thieves (aka fingersmiths), baby smugglers, spiteful servants, an eerie country estate, a fortune, girl-meets-girl romance, an insane asylum, pornographers, murder, ... Fingersmith has all this and more!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The find of the century
Review: This book was amazingly well developed. The main characters Maud and Susan are strangers at first but by the end of the book, were more related than anyone could ever have imagined. There were so many twists in this book, you could never guess what was going to happen next. Waters describes life in england so beautifully that you could imagine seeing it right in front of you. Although both girls go through a lot, they both get through it because of their love for one another. Love, lust, murder, mystery, excitement,passion, fear and thrill were all involved in this book. i would highly recommend this to anyone.It has so much in this book, that it has alittle of every genre so everyone would love this book as much as i did.


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