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Where Angels Fear to Tread : Our Scores

Thank you Raka for hosting such a lovely evening and cooking your delicious chicken curry! After a few attempts to chicken out of Foster, we all definitely chickened in thanks to your culinary skills ;-)))! Mira, you seem to have chickened out of it withouth the benefits of chickening in though...not even Skype could have helped here...

Now this is what we thought of Foster's debut novel...
                      

 Where Angels fear to Tread : Rampire Readers Scores 02/03/10

Rampire Reader	Characters	Topic	Style	UPD* (plot)	Best Character	Worst Character	FINAL SCORE
Anja	5	5	5	4	Lilia	Harriet	19
Heather	8	7	7	Pass	Caroline	Harriet	22
Mira
Monica	8	7	9	4	Caroline	Harriet	28
Raka	9	7	8	5	Carol/Gino	Ha/Mrs H	29
Sara	7	6	8	5	Philip	Mrs H	26

*UPD = Unputdownableness

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" as reviewed in the Guardian on 30 August 1905

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/aug/13/fromthearchives.classics

From the review:
"The results of the trick are at once fantastic and inevitable. The whole is a piece of comedy, as comedy is understood by George Meredith. We wonder whether EM Forster could be a little more charitable without losing in force and originality. An experiment might be worth trying."

What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe is the most loved read of our first round!!

What a lovely evening we had! Many thanks indeed Anja for hosting it and cooking such lovely lasagne for us all...Raka and Heather's puddings were lush and we even had some pink bubbly wine to celebrate thanks to Sara and her new job: congratulations!!!!.

Well, well, well...We have a winner for our first round and that is Anja's choice "What a Carve Up!", novel that we discussed and analised with great passion last night. Sara's choice "The Year of the Flood" was very much appreciated too and came close second ...

So here are our final scores:


Rampire Readers Round One


Characters/60 Topic/60 Style/60 Plot/60 Final Score /240 * - average score 28

Cutting for Stone 39 46 40 43 168/240  - 28

Midnight’s Children 40 46 36 24 146/240 - 24.3

Angel and Demons 19 31 18 29 97/240  - 16.6

The Year of the Flood 47 51 44 47 189/240 - 31.5

The Jane Austen Book Club* 29 25 26 24 104/200 -  20.8

What a Carve Up * 46 48 46 45 187/200 - 37.4

*Mira’s scores are missing -so it is /50 for each category and /200 for global score

Look forward to our second round that starts with a classic: "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by Foster, Raka's choice.

recent interview with Jonathan Coe

I found this really interesting!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/29/life-writing-jonathan-coe

Rampire Readers defy weather adversities and..READ ON!