Long listed for this years Booker and I don’t see it reaching the shortlist.
Everyone is out to get Pakistan’s General Zia (this was true), he is ruling the country but not very well. Amusing and annoying in turns.
Is it aimed at those that like thrillers or literary fiction, either way you would be disappointed.
Score 4.5/10
Date read September 2008
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Quick and easy to read.
I quite liked his style, alternating chapters from the male and female characters works well. I like the dialogue and the plot, he uses minimal words, which makes a change from most long winded authors.
The story…modern love affair that is on/off etc.
Not bad but not great.
Score 5.5/10
Date read August 2008
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A cursed book and a troposphere = a great idea for a story.
The novel borders on sci-fi but isn’t really.
Ariel finds and reads the cursed book, then takes a potion, this takes her via the Troposphere, this allows her to jump into peoples minds (or mice’s minds!)
Would I read more by her, yes definitely.
Score 7.5/10
Date read August 2008
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Billed as a great book in the USA so I gave it the whole book thinking it would get better. I shouldn’t have bothered.
I really didn’t get it ? Was the main character mentally ill, or was it an American attempt to write something like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime? If so it failed miserably.
Score 3/10
Date read July 2008
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