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| I Capture the Castle (Vintage Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dodie Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 2283
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0099460874
EAN: 9780099460879
ASIN: 0099460874
Publication Date: January 31, 2004
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recommended reading for female from 15 to 90 November 10, 2008
What a lovely story! I wasn't expecting much because the only thing I knew about Dodi Smith was that she had written 101 Dalmatians -- a children's story. However,I was totally encharnted with this book. It's a delightful read for women of any age and I have bought copies for both my nieces who are 14 and 15 and also recommend it to my mother. It has interesting social history, romance and is beautifully written. What more could you ask for?
Lose Yourself - it`s "smashing" ! October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a lovely story ! This is a book which really is for all ages except very young. Had I read it as a child/teenager I know I would have loved it then too. The story is so vividly told that in just a few pages you are transported to a green & gentle 1930`s England, when good manners mattered & people said "smashing" & "jolly good". You can see it, taste it, & smell it- I`m sure my pulse rate actually slowed ! Even though Cassandra -the central character- & her family's fairly desperate lack of cash is quite a key point,this is no depressing tale of poverty.
As the gist of the story has been described perfectly in other reviews I`ll skip that here, but would like to say that even (maybe especially?)if like me you are a fairly cynical female of 40+ this is a book which I really think you will find deserves to be called "charming".
It is also lively, funny, thoughtful, poignant, gentle, touching, clever, & totally captivating- story telling at it`s very best.
If you have a real fire, light it, make yourself a mug of cocoa, then curl up with this book & lose yourself in a gentler world. As Cassandra herself might say- "smashing" !
It captures my castle - and my heart September 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a joy this book is to find! I was lent it by a friend and had seen the film a few years ago. Beautifully, masterfully written, with a thundering page-turner of a plot, the characters are as real as any you meet in person.
Just buy it, fill your bath and ENJOY every paragraph. I wish I could find more by this author......
Well written and atmospheric August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The castle is well and truly captured! I saw the castle and I saw the people in it but more than anything, I felt the penury which had descended on the family because of Mortmain's writer's block. Without that understanding of the hand to mouth (if only!) existance you can't empathise with Rose but with it, Rose's behaviour becomes completely rational. This is an excellent well-written multi-layered book. I felt absolutely satisfied when I came to the end. Just what a good book should be.
Delights revisited July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have recently re-read this delightful book as it is the choice for our book club this month. And what a joy - like revisiting an old friend you haven't seen for a long time but had vague happy memories of the last time you saw them. Although it is sometimes described as a 'right of passage' book, which it very probably is, I came to it in my 40s and enjoyed it immensely.
The voice of Cassandra, the 17yr old 'author' is pragmatic, romantic, lyrical and real in a funny, true way. She sees life in her chaotic, unconventional home through such a kind, loving but clear-eyed way. Her protrayal of the characters really does bring them to life on the page and yet there is enough creative license to enable the reader to visualise the story in their own way.
The only other book that had a similar impact on me is 'Cold Comfort Farm', another classic which I came to late, where the humour is sharper, but the family life just as clearly drawn. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys good writing at it's charming best.
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