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Likewise, I'm about halfway through. It's a good read, and I like the occasional digressions to focus on the wealth of animal life existing beyond the attention of the characters. I'm not too fond of Edith, 'the dunce', being a pretty generic clumsy-fat-idiot side character, though. Feels a little played out, even for the sixties.
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So I finished this in only a couple of days, but I'm still digesting it. I really liked the nature imagery, and how the reader is constantly reminded that all of these events are going on against a backdrop of teeming Australian bush. It feels like the disappearace is a catalyst for so many awful events because it shatters the illusion of civilised safety, and without that illusion the college is doomed. It was interesting that the book's subtext seems to be about the tension between (privileged, white) society and the environment they inhabit, but there seems to be no Aborinigal presence. If anyone's interested, the book had a secret cut chapter, that reveals what happened, but also is a lot stranger than I anticipated. It was released later, and described on the book's Wikipedia article if you care to look.
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