David Hunt
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Podcast Appearances
Nevermore.
So, look, I don't love all Charles Dickens, but I do like large chunks of him.
I find...
Oh, well, I'm going to... We may as well just keep talking Dickens.
Bleak House, I thought Esther Somerson is his only female, real female sort of narrator, and it's a strange book because you've got some of it done in the third person and some, you know, by the old lawyer and some in the first person by Esther, and I find the whole sort of creepy gothic bits appealing and the sort of first crime novel with Inspector Bucket appealing, but it didn't quite hang together for me as a book.
But the BBC TV show was great.
I haven't read it.
Well, look, R.O.
Kwan's book, I'd put it as sort of my top serious bit of literature for the year.
But also I'm reading Peter F. Hamilton's Salvation.
For all of you who like a bit of space opera and quality British sci-fi, his last trilogy was sort of off the boil a bit.
But Salvation, I think, out in the last couple of weeks is a return to form.
Yeah.
Oh, really?