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The Rules of Engagement |  | Author: Anita Brookner
Creator: Joanna David
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3791113
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 7.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0754094944
EAN: 9780754094944
ASIN: 0754094944
Publication Date: March 2004
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 I love Brookner June 25, 2010
A. Hope (Birmingham, England)
I know not everyone likes Anita Brookner as there is a touch of the melancholic about her writing, but I don't find her depressing at all. The themes of this novel are very similar to that of some others I have read, that of lonliness, grief, and the choices women make in their lives. Elizabeth married a man many years older than herself, while her childhood friend Betsy entered into a much less suitable relationship with a man in Paris. These choices they made years earlier continue to have an impact as they approach middle age. Elizabeth's life is hardly exciting, she is well off and has no need to work, and yet she fills her time somehow, she takes to walking in the early mornings or late evenings, she sees the seasons change, and contemplates taking a trip. The observations of everyday life, of women like Elizabeth, and their small preoccupations is what makes Anita Brookner's novels so poignant and true, despite the fact they exist in a world outside our own.
 Painful October 20, 2008
Mrs J (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a painfully boring book to read. The author appears to have gone a bit crazy with the thesaurus which gives the narrator's voice far more intelligence then her narrow existence would suggest. I have been pushing myself to keep reading it since I bought it at a charity shop for the not very reduced price of £3.99 however with 50 pages to go I am just going to have to give up. Like the other reviewer mentioned, I normally donate my books to the charity shop however I don't want anyone else to feel as cheated as I have putting a coin toward this book.
Elizabeth, get a job! May 19, 2008
Huish (NJ USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As one of the other reviewers commented, I rarely write online reviews. But after reading this book, I'm looking for someone to give me my weekend back. The plot is minimal, the characters extremely boring and self-centered.
torpor inducing dishwater dullness December 20, 2007
Misty (London)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not often moved to write a review, but this book was so dull i felt moved to warn other potential readers. The characters are vacuous and at no point do i feel sympathy with any of them. The miniscule plot is hidden under reams of overdone pretentious philosophical ramblings on the part of the main character, who is so uninspiring i can't bring myself to use the term heroine. Like several other reviewers i consider myself fairly easy to please, and very rarely can't finish a book, but i have to admit defeat on this one.
If i could give it 0 stars i would.
Awful. And I never have said that about any book I have ever read! August 1, 2006
M. Cordon (Nottingham UK)
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book was really, really boring. Nothing happens, the characters don't really develop, the language is very pretentious (the author must have used a dictionary to deliberately find all these long words, to try and look clever!!!), I could go on and on.
I scanned through it from about two thirds through, as I have never left a book unfinshed in my life but just couldn't stand it anymore!
I normally give my books the the charity shop, but wouldn't wish this on anyone, so it's in the bin.
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