Agreed on:The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (AvidReader)
Discussed:
- Everything you know by Zoe Heller
A very short book club this time round, as we were all running around like lunatics, and then halfway through were maliciously distracted by a beautifully cooked meal!
-no point to this book whatsoever
-didn't like the characters, had no interest in the story and is delighted to have forgotten everything by now
-doesn't know whether to ever try anything by the author again
BOOKELF
-pointless, pointless, pointless
-read it, found it to be terribly dull
-the only decent gag in it was stolen from £100 to read the Bible Evelyn Waugh letters
AVIDREADER
-diabolical tripe, made worse by some semi-passable writing
-horrific characters, horrendous narrator, cartoony plot
We actually disdained to score this book - it left us all so annoyed and frustrated.
A few days later, I texted the ladies my choice for the Christmas period - the just announced Man Booker 2010 winner - The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
Original LBC
Meeting 10 - The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson
Meeting 09 - Everything You Know - Zoe Heller
Meeting 08 - A Chat
Meeting 07 - The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
Meeting 06 - The Island - Victoria Hislop
Meeting 05 - Firman - Sam Savage
Meeting 04 - The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak
Meeting 03 - Daisy Dalrmyple, Jane Austen et al
Meeting 02 - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Meeting 01 - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
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