The Game Lib/E (Audiobook)

from ffortsa

This was my first book by Byatt, and a very early one in her career. Had I not known of her relationship to her sister Margaret Drabble, I would have guessed something like it anyway. The two have been involved in a long feud since before they were published writers, it seems, and this novel puts...

from bookgirl59

This is a masterful bit of writing. The relationship between the sisters is both compelling and disturbing. I can not say that I "enjoyed" the book, but I did admire it.

from Lukerik

Dire and deeply boring. There's a problem with the dialogue and I notice she plays to her strengths at the start by keeping it to minimum, thank God. She writes fairly well and most of her sentences can be understood but she's referencing works that elicit emotional responses. Le Morte Darthur ge...

from iamfitz

While ostensibly being about the sibling rivalry between two sisters, largely centered on the affections of one man, Byatt uses this situation to elaborate on possibility and limitation. At one point, I was even reminded of quantum physics and the collapse of the wave function--the actual fact (t...