Comments on: The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/03/11/the-irresistible-inheritance-of-wilberforce/ the agony and ecstasy of a reading life Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BOOK MY PLACE » Blog Archive » The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/03/11/the-irresistible-inheritance-of-wilberforce/#comment-43942 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:02:03 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-43942 [...] Fishing in the Yemen, a Richard and Judy summer read, were eagerly awaiting the publication of The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, by Paul [...]

]]> By: Mark Needham http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/03/11/the-irresistible-inheritance-of-wilberforce/#comment-41620 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:26:06 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-41620 I agree entirely about it being the type of book where the train is heading in the direction of the main character blowing its whistle and still he refuses to get off the track.

What I found most frustrating though was the ending. I expected some passage, to tell us that he actually did die of alchohol poisoning, or had some final meeting with Eck, who was the character I felt had the potential to pop up again.

Hamlet has that the scene where with all the bodies scattered on the ground, another character contenplates what has happened, Lolita ends with a mock psychiatric report on the death of the main character, this book needed some kind of ending.

]]> By: nigel metge http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/03/11/the-irresistible-inheritance-of-wilberforce/#comment-39876 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:06:59 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-39876 It’s a wonderful & a terrible book. My brother was an alcoholic and so much of it reminds me of him.
Alcoholism, or pehaps addiction of any kind, ‘eats everything’. Wilberforce betrays, or at any rate is indifferent to the feelings of, all his friends and even his wife although he truly loves her.
It’s a story about addiciton, about self-acception addition set against the beauty of wine culture and the English countryside.

]]> By: verbivore http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/03/11/the-irresistible-inheritance-of-wilberforce/#comment-39619 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:33:19 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-39619 I’d seen this one somewhere or heard something about it but your review puts things in a whole new light. If its really well written I think I would enjoy it, depressing subject matter and all.

]]> By: Danielle http://somanybooksblog.com/2008/03/11/the-irresistible-inheritance-of-wilberforce/#comment-39608 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:36:51 +0000 http://somanybooks.wordpress.com/?p=1633#comment-39608 I’d not heard of this book before, but I’m sort of intrigued now that I’ve read your review. Can you imagine spending that much money on a bottle of wine? I guess he got his money’s worth and more.

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