Thursday 10 October 2013

A Tale For The Time Being, some thoughts

I have only read one of the Man Booker-shortlisted novels and am afraid I was rather underwhelmed. Here is my recent Goodreads review of  A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Even some of those readers who loved the book and gave it 5 stars seemed to find the sections narrated by 'Ruth' to be a little dull. I really was disappointed in this novel but have tried to highlight the positives as well as the negatives - it is always easier to write the negative stuff when talking about a book - or film you - didn't love.

3 comments:

Crafty Green Poet said...

Seems like par for the course, an underwhelming Booker nominated book...

nmj said...

Indeed. And even if I don't like a particular book I can see technically why it might be shortlisted for an award, but not in this case... I just don't get the all the hype about this one! I really was disappointed.

nmj said...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03d67jw/The_Review_Show_Man_Booker_Special/

Just caught up with Review Show, glad I was not being harsh, seems I am not alone in my thoughts.

Am really curious now to see who wins! I love how we all get fired up about book prizes, it is all about a love of reading.