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Title: Scratching my head
Review: For much of this book, while enjoying the line by line gems that Banville throws our way -- he does have a masterful command of language -- I was left wondering if it was all worth it.Max seems like a nobody to me. He seems like a nobody to himself. No one in the novel is the slightest interesting. What is interesting is watching how a man's thin life dissintegrates near the end (although he's not really that old). He's caught up in memories (notice how in most of his memories he rarely says anything -- but memories are like that). So Banville does take us into the psychology of a pretty boring and empty person very, very well. But, all along, except for the ending which finally involved me emotionally -- I finally cared a little bit for Max -- I was left scratching my head why Banville would ever write such a novel. Pity the people who he was modelling his story on!
