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The Dinner: A Novel - Community Reviews back

by Herman Koch, Clive Mantle
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Book Muse
Book Muse rated it 11 years ago
This was a highly suspenseful novel that slowly revealed itself layer by layer. Throughout the course of a meal with 2 brothers and their wives more and more is exposed of their lives. Told only from one brothers point of view the reader is left to wonder how much bias we are being shown exactly...T...
Book Connection
Book Connection rated it 12 years ago
Like watching a train crash, the sight is horrible but you can't look away until you know the outcome.
Book Brats
Book Brats rated it 12 years ago
What was it about this one? A couple goes to dinner with the husband’s politician brother and his wife to discuss some terrible event that happened between their sons. The dinner begins to unfold, and my excitement is high. The book is wonderful for about 100 pages, and then nosedives into strange o...
A Book and A Review #2
A Book and A Review #2 rated it 12 years ago
Alright...gotta say that this book didn't knock my socks off. I found the storyline somewhat discombobulated with portions of its storyline that served as more of a distraction versus an addition. Listening to it, I had frequent moments where I would find myself dozing off. The times where I started...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 12 years ago
Two couples, brothers and their wives are dining at a wonderful restaurant known for its ambience, in order to discuss a major family problem. During the course of the evening, in this quiet, upscale establishment, completely out of place and inappropriate emotional outbursts and angry words are exc...
wallerdc
wallerdc rated it 12 years ago
meh
Blogged Out Ma Nut
Blogged Out Ma Nut rated it 12 years ago
More well crafted prurient nonsense.My current stupidity level: Serene Branson migraine
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it 12 years ago
If you thought Gone Girl was f'ed up... www.bostonbibliophile.com/2013/03/review-dinner-by-herman-koch.html
Parnassus Reads
Parnassus Reads rated it 12 years ago
I saw this title on some best of 2013 list somewhere and decided to check it out from the library. I’m glad I can return it. I generally don’t read in the mystery genre, nor do I read much by Dutch authors. Koch kind of rode the Larsson train into American crime fiction, from what I understand, or p...
Infinite Joe
Infinite Joe rated it 12 years ago
A good, quick, and easy read. Probably a 3.5, but rounding up for its departure from using typical commercial fiction elements, such as having a likable character that you can relate to. There was not one single character in this book that was good or admirable, but who says you need one of those ...
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