Helpful Score: 1
I read a lot and often don't remember the details of one book to another, they all sort of blend together after awhile, except for my favorite reads. This is not a favorite read, but I won't forget it easily! Strange book! Some of the strangeness has to do with the language; it was written in Ireland and I am not familiar with words or terms they use (although I am Irish!). I don't know what a ceiling sun is (sky light?), a bowerbird, sellotape (scotch tape?), toadflax, furze, a lay-by, plus many others, and I guess you get your money from a post office there, not a bank like here. Footnotes telling what the words translates into would have been helpful. Basically a story about a year (spill = spring, simmer = summer, falter = fall, wither = winter) in the life of a recluse man and a dog (he gets in spring of the year). The story is not a usual story, which adds to the strangeness! But I would recommend reading it, especially if you love/like dogs.
Going by all the glowing comments on the dust jacket, I had high hopes that I'd like or even love this book. It was described with words like beautiful, poignant, stunning, exceptional, etc., and written superbly.
Well, those reviewers must have read a different book. I absolutely hated this one. I found it dark, depressing, gross, etc. To care about the characters in a book, I have to like them, which I couldn't do with this book. Also, I enjoy lots of dialogue/conversations in books. There was almost none of that here. Ugh.
You may like this book, but I will never read another book written by this author.
Well, those reviewers must have read a different book. I absolutely hated this one. I found it dark, depressing, gross, etc. To care about the characters in a book, I have to like them, which I couldn't do with this book. Also, I enjoy lots of dialogue/conversations in books. There was almost none of that here. Ugh.
You may like this book, but I will never read another book written by this author.
