This book was not for me more a study of social etiquette...but I got it as a "throw out" from the library and only paid a few pennies...just as well as I did not keep and threw away in the trash/bin
A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the delicate scraping of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of politeness - the banality of work, the triviality of holidays. But the empty words hide a terrible conflict ...
HEARTBURN (A small, windowless room in a suburb of Amsterdam. PAUL sits at a table. There is a vacuous expression on his face, and he seems unaware of his surroundings. A young man in uniform escorts a woman through the door, waits until she is seated, and goes to stand behind PAUL. A dim ligh...
I like the way that The Dinner is written but it is a book that is slow to get to the point. 4 people sit around a table in a restaurant waiting to discuss something that could change all of their lives. There are only a handful of characters in this novel but I didn't like any of them. At first I t...
I own the trade paperback version of THE DINNER. Paid seventeen bucks and some changes for it at my local BAM. I'd heard mixed reviews, but of the bad reviews I read, no one was able to give me a good enough reason not to buy Herman Koch's sixth novel. A friend of mine, Mike Crane (Author of GIGGLES...
Got 1/4 of the way through the appertifs to appetizers and not a darned thing was happening to keep me interested. Paul complains about his brother Serge about the same I complain about my sisters, which is NOT at all thrilling.
“We were going out to dinner. I won’t say which restaurant, because next time it might be full of people who’ve come to see whether we’re there.” And so begins the superb, dark masterpiece that is Herman Koch’s The Dinner. Well, it’s a masterpiece in my eyes. This book really has people divided. I...
I've heard this has been called the "European Gone Girl," because it includes unlikable characters and unreliable narration, and everything we thought about the characters unravels as the story progresses, revealing who they truly are. Plotwise, I think it's tighter than Gone Girl (which I enjoyed...
I think I fell for every trick the author had up his sleeve on this one. I flew through this book like I was expecting the last page to reveal to me some magical secret of flight or something. Of course, it did nothing of the sort. But I love it when a book hooks me like this book hooked me. I liked...
It's difficult to review a book like this without talking spoilers, which form the most fascinating aspects of the story. So please excuse my deliberate vagueness.Two brothers and their wives meet for dinner to discuss their sons. Paul Lohman's narrative is quite clever, noting the pretentious ways ...
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