Mr Peanut
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788806197049 (8806197045)
Publish date: April 2012
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 368
Edition language: Italian
This was a book that lived up to the hype surrounding it when it came out. It is a great story about love, friendship, loyalty, marriage, ... loved it.
The whole time I was reading this book I kept thinking, "Wow, this author really hates women!" The female characters in this book were of two types; the closed off, prissy wives and the lovely, sexually adventurous mistresses. They were completely one dimensional. However, the men were equally fl...
I debated between four and five stars on this one, but really the only reason I would doc it a star is that I spent a huge portion of it preoccupied with the fact that Sheppard couldn't possibly be a detective in 2010 or 2011 given that he was just starting medical school in 1944 (making him no youn...
Finishing this darn book kept me up most of the night and I still can't coherently tell you whether I loved it or hated it.