Hi, I would like to get a summary or review of these books: "Changing Places" and "Incendiary"

Question

Changing Places from David Lodge
Incendiary from Chris Cleave

Answer 1

Hi Fer,

Both are well known literary novels. Some of the best reviews are usually available here:


http://72.30.186.56/search/cache?search=%22Changing+Places%22+%2B+%22David+Lodge%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAjbfepNY5H_0Baax1ljayVkTBgx.%2FSIG%3D1140u5jk8%2F%2A-http%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAnUIpDOqPpB1vlCFspRDayoTBgx.%2FSIG%3D11ia1qo58%2F%2A%2Ahttp%253a%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=%22Changing+Places%22+%2B+%22David+Lodge%22&u=www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/%3Fp%3Dauth62&w=%22changing+places%22+%22david+lodge%22&d=TKCtDuxsOO3Z&icp=1&.intl=uk


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Changing-Places-Tale-Two-Campuses/dp/customer-reviews/0140046569

"Incendiary" was not as well reviewed as the Lodge book. For a quick overview of what the critics said of it, see:

Review Consensus:

No consensus whatsoever

From the Reviews:

"As a man writing in a woman's voice, Cleave isn't completely successful but he is masterful in wringing eloquence out of simple lives. It's a thought-provoking story that doesn't pretend to have answers. It works on so many visceral levels, but perhaps this is the main point" - Jeff Glorfeld, The Age


"Incendiary soon becomes a fire-and-brimstone satire. Cleave shows us example after example of hypocrisy and iniquity in the metropolis. You soon realise that his project is to expose and extract the city's decay. (...) All this is mediated through the narrator's voice, which Cleave has tuned to a pitch-perfect degree." - Alastair Sooke, Daily Telegraph


"Mr Cleave has also managed two particular, and rather old-fashioned literary achievements: a distinctive narrative voice and a captivating heroine. (...) Fiction can be a highly effective way of depicting terror. Not because terror is a better subject than others for novels (...) but because fine writing -- and Incendiary is a very fine example -- is such an eloquent human instrument." - The Economist


"(H)e has cooked up a cockeyed plot (.....) Like other ambitious volumes in the rising tower of post-9/11 novels, Incendiary struggles to both chronicle a personal ordeal and make a grandiose statement about the world today, and succeeds at neither." - Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly


"Cleave maintains this fragile persona with engaging consistency throughout. Incendiary is written in faltering, faux-naïf prose that is sometimes richly sardonic (...) and often disarmingly poignant (.....) Most importantly, writing from a non-literary perspective enables Cleave consistently to find words in situations for which no words may commonly be found" - Alfred Hickling, The Guardian

Hope this helps get you started. Best of luck!

Source:
http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/popgb/cleavec.htm

Answer 2

Not read either. Try putting the names into Amazon books; there's often reviews there.

Answer 3

Try amazon.com in the review sections