I had to read this book for school, which might be part of the reason I found it to be so bad. Usually, I'll read anything and most of the time won't have any complaints about it. I don't understand how this book won the Booker Prize. Many praise the language Ms. Roy uses; I found it to be annoying. She writes in sentence fragments. This book is a frame story and the reader already knows what will happen. The problem is that she doesn't give the reader reason to care about the characters enough to read on so I spent most of the book struggling to get through chapter after chapter of pointless description and local color. In retrospect, there wasn't really much activity in this book, just a lot of rambling and multiple descriptions of characters' pasts that got repetative quite quickly.
I gave this book two stars instead of one because I believe that, in the future, Ms. Roy may produce something less devoid of emotion. But perhaps I am being optimistic.
I had to read this book for school, which might be part of the reason I found it to be so bad. Usually, I'll read anything and most of the time won't have any complaints about it. I don't understand how this book won the Booker Prize. Many praise the language Ms. Roy uses; I found it to be annoying. She writes in sentence fragments. This book is a frame story and the reader already knows what will happen. The problem is that she doesn't give the reader reason to care about the characters enough to read on so I spent most of the book struggling to get through chapter after chapter of pointless description and local color. In retrospect, there wasn't really much activity in this book, just a lot of rambling and multiple descriptions of characters' pasts that got repetative quite quickly. I gave this book two stars instead of one because I believe that, in the future, Ms. Roy may produce something less devoid of emotion. But perhaps I am being optimistic.