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 You Spin Me Round - Sam O'Reilly
Newest Review: ... set in the 1980s which is a bit too recent to be appealing as a "history" or a book about the "good old ... more  ... days" we used to live in, while equally too long ago for it to be a book about today. That said, it wasn't until the characters started going to phone boxes that I managed to remember it was in the 80s as the back-cover blurb had told me, because it doesn't have an oldie feel to it. It just seemed fake somehow. I don't mind books that flit back and forth between then and now, helping you work out why characters have ended up where they have, but starting and ending in this decade reads oddly in 2009.
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You Spin Me Round - Sam O'Reilly: Spinning Around? Move It Out Of My Way, Please! (751 words)
by - written on 08/02/09 (Very useful, 233 readings)
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Quasi-orphan Netta (dead mother, father who drinks) is in need of a new crowd when she heads off to university and leaves the crumbling family nest behind. When she meets Pilah, Mel and Emily during her first term away, she discovers a whole new world of man-bashing, husband-stealing and nuclear warfare. Her studies soon fall to the wayside as she embarks on a mission to find the perfect one-night stand to live up to her new feminist principles. Falling in with a dubious crowd she ends up frequenting Greenham common in this dreary tale of 1980s studentville. That's pretty much the whole book in a nutshell. I hated it. And I never say that. I love books, good ... Read the complete review
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