Re: Re: The Piano/God of Small Things

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What I really liked about it was that the central girl character (not that

I'm rubbish with names or anything ) did the Popeye the Sailor Man *just*

like I used to do it when I was little: I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (boom,

boom) I live in a caravan (boom, boom) - where boom boom is a skip, or a

foot tap or a jump or just a mental beat. Lovely!

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

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> I read it a few years ago and enjoyed it, but I thought it was a bit

> over-rich in similes and metaphors; every sentence had at least one

> " something like something " IYSWIM. However it did make me think

> about the more restrained use of similes and metaphors in my own

> writing