by Bernhard Schlink
Feh. This was a BORING book. The author tried to draw parallels with [b:The Odyssey|1381|The Odyssey|Homer|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349112871s/1381.jpg|3356006], which just ended up reminding me how much I hated Odysseus - how much he was a womanizing, cocky, douchebag."[...] I was too much i...
I had high expectations for this book after The Reader. Maybe something was lost in translation, but this was just painful to get through.
I genuinely enjoyed this book so I'm going to grant it 5 stars without thinking the second time. It's a really good story, the main character is easy to understand and the plot is not extremely complicated, but not too simple either. The ending sentence I loved, It's a really hard thing to look for...
This book was generally dissapointing. There were moments when I thought: wow, now this is going somewhere! However, these moments were fleeting and for most of the book I thought: "what is the point of this". I think he could have made so much more with this book. [PS I've been reading very slowly ...
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