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web directory — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:05:53 -0000

Bennett was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford in 1987.

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Allergy Symptoms — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:46:48 -0000

Great book. Quite interesting. I have enjoyed reading it.

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egenienext — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:35:55 -0000

An acute eye for our foibles and fumblings has made him one of Britain's best-loved observers. As he turns 75, let us not spare his blushes but wish him.

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Stroke Treatment — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:30:49 -0000

I think I am inspired to write a book soon. It tells so much of a person's thoughts.

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check scanner — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:10:38 -0000

Alan Bennett is one of my favorite authors, I just love the of writing that he uses

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Cheap Textbooks — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:22:56 -0000

wonderful book. Bennett has described it very nicely in this diary a life with unwavering honesty of a dying man. every character is so real. I love this book. great work bennett as usual.

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Dan Leo — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:13:35 -0000

There's a whole category of writers whose diaries or letters are as good or better than their "official" stuff. I think I first thought about this when I picked up William Burroughs's "Collected Letters". I remember thinking, "This shit is fucking great! Too bad so much of his published fiction is so impossible to read." Another one is Bukowski; I love his poems and fiction, but his letters are just as brilliant. One more: Kingsley Amis. I've been a fan of his ever since I accidentally discovered "One Fat Englishman" in the library when I was about 14. He never wrote or even tried to write a "great" novel; I think the whole concept of the "great" novel kind of annoyed him, and he probably also knew his limits; but, his "Collected Letters", all 11,000 pages of it, are -- to me -- like a great novel.