Title: Disappointing book, great Movie
Product review: To be honest, I had to give up after 50 pages. This book is sooooo slooooow. I'm amazed that such a novel inspired a movie director to create such a wonderful film with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy. Probably he condensed it and added a few funny scenes.I had ordered the sequel, "Blandings" Way", via inter library loan as well, but will skip reading it.A much better, more rewarding read was "Now, Voyager!" by Olive Higgins Prouty which I also recived via ILL at our public library in 2008. That was a great great forties novel!Other books from the forties that I recently discovered: "The Woman in Red" by Anthony Gilbert (a must read for all fans of the 1945 Nina Foch film "My Name is Julia Ross") and "The Blank Wall" by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (although I liked the movie location (Balboa, CA) better than the book location (CT) which has been filmed with Jamnes Mason and Joan Bennett (Reckless Moment).
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