The Green Road –
Anne Enright
The consensus about
this book is that it wasn’t very good, and was a waste of time.
Quite confusing –
One of us finished it but didn’t know how she felt about it.
So much of it was
left unsaid and unresolved.
There was so much
that you don’t know or learn.
Didn’t enjoy it.
It was not the way that you hope families will go.
She (the mother) was
a selfish woman and made Maggie so cross. The whole book doesn’t bring out a picture of Rosaleen at all.
No route or roadmap
through the story. It was disjointed and almost like a set of short
stories.
Waded all through it
and not got a proper ending.
Don’t understand
why it was necessary to be so explicit about Dan’s homosexual
adventures or about Constance at the hospital.
However, there was
some lovely descriptive writing, some nice touches, for example about
the shopping.
LW said that overall
it was an unsatisfactory book – some bits could be left out and
some bits needed to be added.
A final statement:
very descriptive – BUT.
Marks came out to be
just below 5.
