Somewhere in this book. there was a really good story trying to get out and I'm not sure if something was lost in the translation but something went horribly wrong here.I don't mind unlikable characters, I don't mind if every character in a book is downright despicable - but if they are, then they d...
I was so excited to read this book, but it took me almost 100 pages to get into it. Whoever said this book was like a European Gone Girl was deluded. I could see the twists coming almost from the beginning and the only thing I was kind of surprised by was fact that story was moving so slowly. The...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-dinner.htmlThe Dinner takes place over the course of one evening - one dinner shared among two couples. Serge and Babette. Paul and Claire. Over the course of the dinner, much is revealed about the dynamics of the ...
This was not like Gone Girl, despite the blurb. Gone Girl was fun, with hairpin twists and turns to the plot. This was not fun. This was just nasty. Like Gone Girl, this too has unreliable narrator, and characters making sharp bitchy observations. Their children are the spawns of Satan, and it's...
The Dinner is the type of novel in which giving away even the barest of plot points would be to upset the tightly woven balance between superficial banalities and the darker undercurrents of tension and desperation that occur in the shared meal between family members. The story gains its power in th...
The Dinner is what I wish every thriller would be, a brilliant work of building and restraint. While some have complained that the beginning is slow, I think that Koch establishes his characters perfectly - particularly with Paul's relateable, snarky comments. Once the "Main Course" started to fall ...
Often we use the word 'darkly funny' while reviewing a book. The word has become kind of cliched to use. But, there is no other way that I can start reviewing The Dinner by Herman Koch except saying this is darkly funny and a true, true to it's core book that often relies on communicating with the r...
I thought it was very dull in parts. I found myself skimming passages. While the main part of the story takes place in the restaurant, we do get a pretty good idea of events leading up to the dinner through the narration of Paul. I found this book incredibly disturbing and sick. I hated all of t...
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