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The British Museum Is Falling Down

David Lodge

Paperback | Pages: 182 pages

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Title	:	The British Museum Is Falling Down
Author	:	David Lodge
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 182 pages
Published	:	September 5th 1989 by Penguin Books (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. European Literature. British Literature. Novels. Contemporary

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Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around...

And that, precisely, is the dilemma that preoccupies Adam Appleby as he begins another day of research in the Reading Room of the British Museum. Adam is a graduate student in literature and a practicing Catholic in the days before the Pill. He is also married, has three children, and is not looking forward to the possiblity of a fourth.

On this foggy day in London, however, work and life conspire against him. As Adam makes his bumbling way through a series of misadventures that do little to alleviate his anxiety, the reader is treated to a hilarious and heartfelt tour of academia that only David Lodge could have created.

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Original Title:	The British Museum Is Falling Down
ISBN:	0140124195 (ISBN13: 9780140124194)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Clare, Dominic Kitchen, Barbara, Edward, Adam Appleby, Camel, Francis Maple, Padre Wildfire, Pond, Señora Green, Padre Finbar, Profesor Briggs, Profesor Bane
Setting:	London, England(United Kingdom)

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Poor Adam Appleby has several problems. First and foremost, he and his young wife are faithful Roman Catholics, which means that no matter how earnestly they adhere to the Rhythm Method, all their poring over calendars and temperature-taking has not prevented three children they can't afford and, horror of horrors, a possible fourth is on the way. Second, Adam's future career in academe is highly dubious unless he finishes his long-overdue thesis on English Literature, with which he wrestles

This contains a wonderfully accurate description of the loneliness and despair of the dissertation writer.

The heart of this novel is the old British Library, whose reading room was then at the centre of the British Museum. A great blue dome of thought that was long since incapable of stretching over the all the book held treasures of human learning. There, in that library, our hero, a post-graduate student working on his thesis with a young wife and a number of very young children, works away. At home the prospect of his wife being perpetually pregnant or of unstinting abstinence looms for the

One of the funniest books by Lodge. With a wonderful passage of Martian chronicles at the beginning of the novel.

To me, this book started really well, and ended on just the right note. Certain points in between, however, sagged a little. I paused for weeks at the two-thirds point and read other things, which sort of cleansed my palate, metaphorically, then I read Adam's final attempts at shenanigans and the whole of Barbara's closing interior monologue with great enjoyment.It was quite fun on the whole, mainly because I had not read anything amusing yet literary for quite some time...It was also

I love David Lodge's earlier books. They are very funny.

This book was enjoyable, but very much "of it's time". As a snapshot of a 1960's Catholic scholar it was very interesting and well-written, also quite funny in places. However it is so much a piece "of it's time" that a lot of it just didn't translate well and I felt I was quite often missing the joke. Reading this book was like being at a party full of people who have a different first language from you - let's say they are all Swedish - even if they are all very nice and decide to speak to you