This was another book I read for my read harder challenge that I didn’t really enjoy (challenge: read a book that has been adapted into a movie and watch the movie afterwards). Although I am always happy to have stepped outside of my normal comfort zone, this one just wasn’t my favorite.
I had wanted to read this Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel so badly that I inadvertently bought it twice. Maybe that added to my disappointment and how let down I felt after reading it. Giving the author credit, she may well have accomplished exactly what she set out to accomplish. However, I found the novel too dark and depressing.
Another reading challenge book that took me out of my comfort zone, this one was definitely not my cup of tea. Set in a dystopian future where the environment has more or less been destroyed, the government has been experimenting on people with special genetics to create even more extraordinary speciMen, as they are called.
I normally love Richard Russo’s books. AndEverybody's Fool is the long-awaited sequel toNobody's Fool, one of his all-time greats published in 1993.
This is the book that Lawrence of Arabia was based on, and I picked it up as part of a reading challenge, and because I felt I ought to have read it…I won't make that mistake for a while. Seven Pillars of Wisdom is essentially 700 pages of army maneuvers and descriptions of sand. Although it is well written, I found it impossible to keep track of the people, the geography or the war.
This Booker Prize-winning novel satirizes the state of race relations in the United States today.
