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Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

By: Alan Sillitoe
Narrated by: Linus Roache
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Alan Sillitoe was an integral part of the Angry Young Men movement of the fifties that focused on its authentic depiction of real working class people. This book is true to their ideals in its raw sharp writing of the story of a young man framed by his brutal experience in the army and as a factory worker.

Fuelled by a bleak aggressive outlook on life the book centers around a boozy, philandering weekend which is graphically captured by Sillitoe's clever prose and Linus Roache's strong reading.

©2009 Copyright Group (P)2009 Copyright Group Classics
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This taut slice of post-War English life rollicks along with great intensity and thought in the end nothing much happens, everything happens too. Worth an afternoon. Linus Roach’s narration is sharp as a tack.

A forgotten classic

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I don't know what the criteria for what made the abridged cut was but they took out whole scenes and part of scenes that were not unimportant.

Constant annoying jazz breaks, sometimes over a minute. The same annoying elevator jazz jingle, over and over again.

Massively abridged and annoying jazz

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I wouldn't say I loved the story and am not sure why this is considered such an amazing depiction of the rage of the working class. Nor did I have the reaction of the victim in John Fowles' The Collector, who called the novel disgusting. I don't know what would count as disgusting. The fight scenes? The abortion attempt? It didn't really stir any major emotions in me other than thinking the main character was a jerk.

But even if I loved it, the weird jazz interludes throughout this audiobook would have put me off. The interludes between chapters were way too long but at least it sort of makes sense to have them between parts? But then the music was also sprinkled mid-way through some parts in what seemed a very random way. I was very confused about the producer's choices.

Middling story + annoying musical interludes

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