Beautifully written, wonderfully narrated, filled with keen observations and credible interior monologues. Abandoned because it's too painful to watch the broken people and learn about the things that broke them. "The Nix" is the first book of my "20 for 20 reading Size Matterschallenge" :To Rea...
My rating and reaction! The Nix
Holy cow this is a good book. There is much more to it than the story of a mother and the son she left. Different from all the other recent releases I've read, THE NIX is terrific. I may be easily impressed after the run of mediocrity I've read recently. We'll see how I feel in a year or so, but I t...
This was a terrific book, but it is, I thought, way too long. I am a fan of John Irving's quirky, sprawling novels , and this reminds me of them. However, listening to it (a 22-hour audio book!) I thought there were many times that descriptions, while wonderful, just went on and on. For example, whi...
AudibleHonestly, this book has EVERYTHING I love: a COMPLICATED family history and how the old secrets that were locked behind ambiguous shrugs and half answers and vague abstractions and aphorisms come to light, bit by bit until all necessary fragments of an enigmatic jigsaw are put together. The...
Wow! That was a long one. Honestly, I was beginning to wonder if it was ever going to end. I listened to the Audio version on Audible and, I mean, it wasn't a bad book but 22 hours of narrative is almost a full day of my life and if I'm going to invest a day of my life, that I'll never get back, lis...
The Nix, Nathan Hill, author, Ari Fliakos, narrator “The Nix” begins in 1988, as the author describes an event taking place in the small Chicago suburb of Streamwood. Eleven-year-old Samuel Andresen-Anderson’s life is about to unalterably change forever. His mother, Faye, has been slowly and careful...
I nixed The Nix at 33% of the way in. Boring and pointless. Grab a sample first. I was enticed by the title and the blurb. I pre-ordered. I should have waited.
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