The Casual Vacancy

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  • Absolute tedious reading, a total disappointment ...  

    The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
    I pre-ordered this book back in 2012 as soon as I heard did JK had written a new book (for adults this time). I was so looking forward to reading it since I am One of Those 100% (adult!), JK / Harry Potter fans. Basically, I started (and Restarted) t
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  • Wonderfully written and captivating  

    The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
    The book is not thrilling to the typical way or exciting. But it takes a slow and almost unexpectedly into the life of a small town, and before you know it you can not read differently on, because you have to know how it is with everything. Almost li
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  • This novel really captivated my imagination  

    The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
    Obviously, the author wanted to stray as far as possible from Hogwarts and everything connected with it. She succeeded. Do not expect this novel to be like Harry Potter. The reader is Confronted with the sudden death of one of the members of the Loca
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  • Quite differently than expected, but very good  

    The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
    When Barry Fairbrother dies suddenly in his hometown Pagford is nothing like it was. Barry was very active in the community, has worked for the local problem area 'the Fields', was in every respect a model citizen. Friends and relatives, enemies and
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  • Harrowing but unputdownable  

    The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
    This novel is Certainly not what Harry Potter fans would be expecting. One gets the impression did Rowling has done her damnedest to move from fantasy to a hyperreal world where the reader is not spared any of the tragedies of the life of real Britis
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  • Debunking milieu study  

    The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
    No look inside the book, no advance copies of the book critics and to secrecy as to Harry Potter's best times: Before the release of "The Casual Vacancy" is hardly anything about the plot of the first book of Joanne Rowling after the global Harr
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