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Alexander's Choice  [message #68241] Sun, 05 January 2014 11:47 Go to previous message
Ian John Copeland is currently offline  Ian John Copeland

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I have now finished reading Alexander's Choice by Edmund Marlow and commend it to all as a rollicking good read set in the refined world of Eton, where the charming Alexander falls into serial relationships with first an older boy and then more controversially with one of his teachers.

Firstly the author is at pains to stress that he will not reveal the possible models for Alexander so some have been speculating around the names of Boris Johnson (totally implausible in my view as Boris even then had about as much sex appeal as the exhaust pipe of the number 11 bus) and David Cameron, well both are impossible because it is set in a different period according to Marlow.

What I enjoyed was the almost impenetrable world of Eton itself although I certainly do not remember slaving away for academic excellence at any time of my school career.  Putting that to one side, perhaps the sections trying to justify the impossible relationship as a Grecian ideal might put some people off. However, for me it was a good read on the whole even if the concluding part conforms to the norms albeit written in a most effective manner. I did wonder whether the reaction of the school had it been discovered earlier would have been as described though.

Anyway, I wondered whether others have read this book and come to similar views?

Ian

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