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by David Lodge (Author) "It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (27 Jun 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140062149
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140062144
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,972 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Rhythm Method is the curse of young Adam Appleby’s life and the cause of his children’s. While Adam gestates his thesis in the British Museum, his wife worries at home because her period is late and a fourth little bundle of (expensive) joy seems to be on the way, thanks to ‘Vatican Roulette’. Though Adam’s experience is constantly coloured by the authors he is studying, one distinction remains clear: ‘Literature is mostly about having sex, and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.’ A sharply perceptive comic novel, ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ brilliantly captures the absurd, pitiful dilemma of Catholics in the days when the Pill was just an enticing rumour.

About the Author
David Lodge has written many bestselling novels, including THINKS and NICE WORK. His books have sold well over a million copies in Penguin. Formerly Professor of English at Birmingham University, he now writes full-time. He continues to live in Birmingham.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The beginning of something great, 28 Oct 2002
By Lovborg (London) - See all my reviews
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Perhaps the most useful description of this novel by the magnificent Mr. Lodge is to explain the effect that it had on me: I ordered everything else he has written.
This is a funny, unapologetically intelligent novel that wrestles with a real issue as it unfolds in deeply funny passages. As you'd expect from a man of Lodge's critical stature, there is an interest too in how books are written and literary style (the protagonist is writing his thesis in the Museum), but this is not a dry intellectual exercise, but a wry, clever and engrossing read.
Since reading this, I have read five other novels by him, culminating in his latest "Thinks..." and I promise that no matter where you start with his work, you'll be glad you got the habit: but please give this one a go.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Quite fun, but better if you can get the joke?, 10 April 2008
By Annabel Gaskell "gaskella2" (Nr Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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A comic novel all about birth control - or indeed the lack of it and its effects. The main character, Adam Appleby doesn't live in the garden of Eden; he's trying to get to grips with his thesis but only manages to worry about his ever expanding family.
The British Museum is where he goes to study, and each chapter is neatly prefaced with a literary quotation about it. The edition I have has an added afterword by the author, and this is where I discovered how badly read I am on modern classics, as Lodge has included ten different styles of literary pastiche including Lawrence, Joyce, Greene, Woolf and Hemingway et al. Looking back, I think I can locate some of them, but I will have to re-read some time in the future, (only being familiar with Greene, and having recently read my first Hemingway).
Great fun though even if you don't get all the jokes.
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10 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Well written but a bit too poncey for my liking, 17 Mar 2000
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I might be being really thick, but it wasn't till right at the end that I realised the pastiche element to this book. Basically, all the way through, Lodge is paying homage to a lot of his fave authors by writing in the style of some of their most famous works. So when I'd almost finished the book and realised this I felt a bit cheated - that something had been going on without me. But maybe that's just me. The rest of the book is, in places, very funny, very dated, very boring. But the relative arrogance of the in-joke described above annoyed me to the extent that I'm going to sulk and only give it 3 stars. I'm not bitter...
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